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
Bansky graffiti: Gone
You can’t make stuff like this up. BETHLEHEM, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Offended Bethlehem residents have painted over a satirical mural by graffiti artist Banksy that was meant to highlight their plight. The elusive British street artist painted six images … Continue reading
The IDF: Fighting the next war
According to one officer, what we’ve seen the last few days—over 20 Palestinian terrorists killed at the cost of a few wounded Israeli soldiers—was combat, not, as the media like to say, “raids.” “What we’re seeing in Gaza is not … Continue reading
Painting Israel as the villain, again
The AP spins the death of two more Palestinian terrorists as anti-Israel as possible. Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Gunmen Note that in a headline dealing with dead terrorists, the active voice is always used, and Israel or the IDF are … Continue reading
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24 and the NYT
In season 4 of 24 there’s an excellent exchange between a politician and one of his former aides. I’m going to leave out the character names so this won’t serve as a spoiler to anyone who still plans to see … Continue reading
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Catholic patriarch: No Jewish state, you bigots
Michael Sabbah, the Palestinian anti-Israel Catholic priest tells Israel that there should be no Jewish state. Because it’s discrimination. ”If there’s a state of one religion, other religions are naturally discriminated against,” Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah told reporters at the … Continue reading
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NYT vs. Daniel Pipes Round Robin
Down Payment on Mideast Peace The political and territorial challenges facing Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are formidable and familiar. The economic obstacles to the creation of a viable Palestinian state are also formidable, but easier to make a dent … Continue reading
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Israeli researchers create a nano-Bible
Israel researchers at Technion—the Israeli Institute of Technology—put the entire Jewish Bible on a square .5 millimeters—smaller than the head of a pin. Technion researchers have succeeded in putting a full version of the Hebrew Bible, with vowel points, on … Continue reading
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What’s a qassam or two …
Zvi Barel in Ha’aretz Can a military operation succeed where sanctions have failed? This is precisely the moment to remember that the Qassam rockets and arms smuggling via the Philadelphi route tunnels did not start after sanctions were imposed. They … Continue reading
On reporting, awarding, exploding
Abby Wisse Schachter delivers a devastating critique of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz But Haaretz’s ideological crusade is not limited to the editorial or opinion pages. Its editors are only too happy to publish defamatory feature stories as well. On November … Continue reading
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Losing while winning
Israel just released its own version of a national intelligence estimate, it is a post-mortem of last year’s war with Hezbollah. First the good news: It is clear that Hizbollah’s balance statement at the end of the fighting was mixed. … Continue reading
Fish tales at the PA aid conference
“It was a small fish, actually, rather like a guppy.” “No, no, Habibi Blair, it was more like a bluegill.” “Ha, Monsieur Fayyad, it must have been a bass.” “Herr Kouchner, I must disagree it was more like a salmon.” … Continue reading
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Beilin the oxymoron
Four years ago Thomas Friedman described outgoing Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin as a fanatical moderate: What I have always admired about Mr. Beilin is that he is a fanatical moderate — as committed to his moderation as the extremists are … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #145 is UP!
Well Haveil Havalim #145 is UP! Given that it’s the 3rd anniversary edition you might be interested in some past milestones. Here’s what the 1st edition looked like. Here’s the 1st anniversary edition. Here’s the second anniversary edition The categories … Continue reading
Tel-Aviv Tech
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reports: Tel Aviv University has hit the jackpot, with three of its scientists included in the list of 50 of the world’s leading innovators in the coming issue of one of the world’s leading science magazines, Scientific American.Prof. … Continue reading
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The Israeli Intelligence Estimate: No war on the horizon, yet
The Israeli Intelligence Estimate is being previewed by Ynet. Some of the more interesting tidbits: Israel’s strategic position has improved in the last year- but with it also the military capabilities of its enemies: the Qassam threat has worsened- and … Continue reading