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
Anna-policy
Glenn Kessler reports that the current state of the Annapolis conference seems to be very up in the air. “No one seems to know what is happening,” one senior Arab envoy said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity to … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #141 is up
Haveil Havalim #141 is up at Yid With Lid. In honor (or fear) of the upcoming Annapolis conference it’s appropriately called the “Save Israel Edition.” Haveil Havalim is the Jewish/Israel blogging carnival.
Tough life in Gaza
Steven Erlanger catalogues the problems of life in Gaza in today’s Week in Review. Hopes were high in 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and 9,000 Jewish settlers, and the international community lined up to help the Palestinians make … Continue reading
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Israeli stock market heading for big leagues
The only country in the Middle East without oil has an economy that’s going like gangbusters, and here’s one reason why: The Israeli stock market is on a roll. Over the past five years to October 15, the Tel Aviv … Continue reading
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British anti-Semitism at the highest levels
Why am I not surprised to read this? At the end of the meeting, the Israeli official invited the Prince of Wales to visit the Jewish state for its 60th anniversary celebrations. Following the meeting, the Jewish Chronicle reported Friday, … Continue reading
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Ressurection of Muhammad Al Durrah?
(An addendum to that excellent compilation by Soccer Dad.) The case of Muhammad Al Durrah, the Gazan boy allegedly killed by IDF during a stone-throwing episode and made into a symbol of Intifada, is slowly unraveling, it seems. The raw … Continue reading
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Israeli-Arab MK: Israel has no say over Temple Mount
The true Fifth Column in Israel: An Israeli Arab member of the Knesset (yeah, that apartheid Israel, they have Arab members of Israel’s version of Congress) says that Israel has no legal jurisdiction over the Temple Mount. The digs, replied … Continue reading
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An ignatius mess
(h/t Media Backspin) In Palestinian Security Paradox, David Ignatius writes: Security is the magic word. No peace deal will work until the Palestinians are able to provide security that Israelis can trust. But right now, people are paying lip service … Continue reading
Philippe who?
There is precious little coverage of what ought to be considered Watergate for the international media, but yesterday brought some dramatic news. After telling the court that he had 27 minutes of video of the conflict near Netzarim junction the … Continue reading
What I wrote in the NY Times
Before I started blogging. (OK before there were blogs.) I was a letter writer. When I didn’t like what I read in the newspaper I’d write a letter to the editor. Well 10 years (and 2 days) ago, I had … Continue reading
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What I didn’t read in the NY Times
Taint by Association by Clark Hoyt The bigger question is whether The Times should be publishing him at all. But why would the Times give a spokesman for a terrorist organization a platform to promote Hamas? If he wanted to … Continue reading
Another puzzled muzzled
It is by accident that I have stumbled on the post Haram for us, Halal for Israel by an Egyptian blogger(ess) Zeinobia. Look in Wiki for haram and halal, but for the purpose the former means “forbidden” and the latter … Continue reading
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Poverty and terror, again
via memeorandum This is not news, but there’s another academic concluding that terror is not a function of poverty. In this case it is Alan Krueger who explains What makes a terrorist. Claude Berrebi, now of the RAND Corporation’s Institute … Continue reading
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Terrorist vs. terrorist
Hamas killed seven and wounded 85 in a rally for Yasser Arafat yesterday. Today, they’re making mass arrests. Yeah, that freedom that they promised the Palestinians? Not seeing it yet. Hamas security forces moved swiftly against their Fatah rivals in … Continue reading
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Reading Diehl
Earlier I critiqued Jackson Diehl’s column, “If this peace process fails.” Now, (via Daled Amos) I see that Noah Pollak has critiqued the column from a different perspective. The 2000-2005 terror war was not an outpouring of political or social … Continue reading
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