The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Israel
Mideast Media Sampler 03/21/2013
1) Barack and Bibi The Algemeiner has transcripts of President Obama’s and PM Netanayahu’s remarks at their joint press conference yesterday. Writing in Tablet, Lee Smith covers the three issues that President Obama and PM Netanyau would be discussing: the … Continue reading
The Palestinians: Say it with explosions
Hamas isn’t sending flowers. It’s sending missiles. And the AP manages to turn news of a rocket attack on Israel’s southern civilian population into a by-the-way. Note how the AP also manages to blame Israel for the rocket attack–because they … Continue reading
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Obama in Israel
You have to give the man credit. He knows how to put on the charm when he wants to. And he has utterly charmed many, many Israelis. “We were prepped in advance for any question he may ask us,” Farhi … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – The anti-Zionist DNA of the New York Times
The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/18/2013
Cheerleading the Intifada The New York Times has done it again. Less then two weeks after publishing an intellectual attack against Israel, it publishes an article glorifying physical attacks on Israel. The front page story of yesterday’s New York Times … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler 03/17/13
1) When elephants crash land Recently, I brought up an example of how Professor Barry Rubin handled a mistake. First he admitted it. Then he explained the forces involved. His behavior showed a few things. 1) He is serious about … Continue reading
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Lies the Palestinians told me
Mahmoud Abbas, the author of a Holocaust-denying theme that got him his college degree, is adding more lies to his resume. Now he says that Hamas should be removed from the EU’s list of terrorist organizations because it is now … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/15/2013
1) Why is this debate a virtue? Yesterday, I wrote about Joseph Levine’s outrageous article at the New York Times arguing that Israel is not a legitimate secular democratic state. At the Daily Beast, Ralph Seliger writes: I think it’s odd … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler 03/14/2013
The Ranting of Levine Last week the New York Times published an essay by a philosophy professor, James Levine On Questioning the Jewish State. I won’t quote from the essay, but here are some of the responses. Elder of Ziyon … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/13/2013
1) Being a reporter means never having to say you’re sorry The New York Times has reported on the UN report that raised doubts about the death of Omar Masharawi. Isabel Kershner wrote U.N. Ties Gaza Baby’s Death to Palestinians: … Continue reading
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The rise and fall of a lie about Israel
Last November, a BBC stringer’s 11-month-old boy was killed by rocket fire. The news media rushed the story around the world, blaming an Israeli airstrike, even though the IDF denied any airstrike in that particular location. There is no shortage … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 03/11/2013
1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week’s revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, … Continue reading
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The EU’s flying pig moment
Apparently, not all the members of the EU are Israel-haters. Some 20 European Union Parliament Members sent a letter to the EU Foreign Policy Chief in which they strongly condemned remarks made by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan last … Continue reading
Mideast Media Sampler 03/08/2013
The state of the Secretaries of State One of John Kerry’s first acts in office as Secretary of State was a good one. Lee Smith writes in John Kerry Roasts Turkey: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not a … Continue reading
The AP’s pig-flying moment
What’s this? An honest, [mostly] unbiased story on Israel from the AP? Israeli police have entered Jerusalem’s holiest site to disperse hundreds of Palestinians who were throwing rocks. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Palestinian worshipers rioted after Friday Muslim prayers … Continue reading
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