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
The AP anti-Israel spin
We haven’t had a rip-roaring case of Meryl’s near aneurysm brought on by the AP media spin, so have at it: First, we have the headline: Israel’s Premier Rejects Peace Deadline Note that it’s all about Israel rejecting peace. Let’s … Continue reading
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Confronting the terrorists and aligning wtih them
via memeorandum In the afterglow of the confidence building Annapolis conference where President Bush said I have known the President for quite a while. I am convinced that he is dedicated to the formation of a Palestinian democracy that will … Continue reading
Multiple choice quiz – middle east oppression edition
Which one of these leaders said the following? A) King Abdullah said, “The Kingdom must open up its holy cities to everyone and allow all visitors to worship as they please or Saudi Arabia is finished.” B) President Bashar Assad … Continue reading
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Gillerman to UN: Get over the Palestinians already
This is why Dan Gillerman is the man I’m going to marry (once I steal him from his wife of umpteen years): “The 29th of November is a reason for celebration,” said Gillerman, who spent the last few days at … Continue reading
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60 years old and still premature
In a sense, today Israel is 60 years old today. The partition plan that split the portion of the Palestine Mandate that hadn’t already been lopped off to create Transjordan (now Jordan) into Jewish and Arab sections was approved today. … Continue reading
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Preconditions and conditions
The appointment of James Jones as a mediator in the Middle East doesn’t bode well. The previous military man appointed to the region, Gen. Dayton, hasn’t worked out so well. The problem with the mediators is that their job is … Continue reading
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The shadow over Annapolis and more
Steven Erlanger’s Iran Casts Shadow on Mideast Talks is an analysis that emphasizes the role of Iran in the Annapolis talks yesterday. First he quotes a view from the Arab world “There is a genuine concern and fear among political … Continue reading
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The limits of Annapolis
Ralph Peters has weighed in on Annapolis with No Lasting Peace. (Judeopundit rightly credits it with having “with numerous Mark Steyn-style one-liners.”) What happens in the course of Middle East “peace” talks under such circumstances? Whether the American administration is … Continue reading
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Annapolis: The spin is in
And so it turns out that Annapolis has achieved just about nothing. Well, except cause more media outlets, pundits, and world leaders to put the lion’s share of the blame for any failure on Israel. Reuters has a roundup of … Continue reading
Annapolis and beyond
Thomas Friedman makes some good points in Oasis or Mirage? He notes that the players in Annapolis were motivated more by fear than by love. Unlike others, he attaches a lot significance to the missing handshake. The Saudi foreign minister, … Continue reading
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Der Sturmer days are coming back?
When you start a sentence with “something is rotten in…”, you are usually trying to point out something more serious than a hangnail but still not as final and tragic as, to take one example, an incurable cancer growth. I … Continue reading
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Size doesn’t matter
In Bernard Lewis’s “On the Jewish Question,” the scholar gives a brief history of the Palestinian Israeli conflict in order to illustrate the fundamental problem with negotiations. If, on the other hand, the issue is the existence of Israel, then … Continue reading
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Different ways of saving lives
Yuval save lives because he’s a doctor. The Arab baby, Tara, had four heart defects. Tara had come to Israel through Save a Child’s Heart, a program that sponsors surgery for children from poor areas. Doctors had inserted a shunt … Continue reading
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Sieg-speak: war is peace
Henry Siegman is my hero. Really. With academic credential no greater than mine (a bachelor’s degree from the New School vs a B.A. in Math from Yeshiva University ) Siegman has had the title of “expert” appended to his name. … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #142 is UP!
Haveil Havalim #142 is UP! Remembering a friend who died too soon. The latest in Israeli medical breakthroughs. The rain in Spain Israel. An Al Dura roundup. An Annapolis roundup. And much, much, more… Personal Israel Humor Al Dura Annapolis … Continue reading