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
Giving the cap back
There’s a fascinating story about a daring Israeli commando raid 35 years ago in the Jerusalem Post. The Sabena plane had been hijacked by Black September, a PLO splinter group, after leaving Vienna, where it had stopped on a flight … Continue reading
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The unbearable lightness of optimism
Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, via good services of Ynet, dropped today a huge Valium tablet on the unsuspecting citizens of Israel. The pill is titled Nuclear bomb won’t destroy Israel. I am not sure whether I understand all motives of that … Continue reading
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The hypocritical Mufti
As we mentioned last month, the Waqf is systematically destroying priceless Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount, with the permission of the Olmert government. The Israeli Antiquities Authority does have some archaeologists on site to watch the destruction being done … Continue reading
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“Kill Jews everywhere”
Another Palestinian Arab terrorist momentarily forgets the fiction that he is only supposed to hate Zionists, not Jews: Prominent leader of the Popular Resistance Committees Abu Al-Sa’id on Wednesday called on the de facto Palestinian government to hasten disbanding the … Continue reading
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Equating the victim with her killer
Media Backspin writes of the documentary To die in Jerusalem, which somehow balances the death of Rachel Levy with the death of the girl who killed her. (My guess is that the movie ignores the hero, Haim Smadar, who died … Continue reading
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Was Syria planning to attack Israel?
The Jerusalem Post reports that according to a report in the UAE, Syria was preparing for a war with Israel two weeks ago. Al-Khaleej quoted “senior sources” in Damascus as saying that Syria had received intelligence that Israel was seriously … Continue reading
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The Bidoon
Palestinian Arabs aren’t the only ones who are treated like dirt by the Arab world. There is also a large population known as Bidoon, short for Bidun jinsiya which means “without nationality” in Arabic. Most are Arab. There are between … Continue reading
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Diehl-ing from the bottom of the deck
In the Deal on the Table Jackson Diehl makes the tired argument Between the end of the last serious Israeli-Palestinian talks, in January 2001, and their resumption this month, more than 4,000 Palestinians and Israelis have been killed in the … Continue reading
Walking back the cat X 2
According to William Safire “walking back the cat” is a technique used to determine dissent in an otherwise closed government. Intelligence analysts have a technique to reveal a foreign government’s internal dissension called ”walking back the cat.” They apply what … Continue reading
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Hakinor shel Rechov “E”
I didn’t know that …for a few months, between late 1974 and early 1975, there was also a violin, in the darkness on the edge, adding heartrending poignancy to ballads like the debut album’s sparse “Lost in the Flood,” the … Continue reading
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Surfin’ for a bruisin’
Israelly Cool! has reported on the preference of model Bar Raphaeli to stay away from Israel. Well she was in the news again. Police detained eight-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater early Saturday after a scuffle with photographers who were … Continue reading
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A snip in time
Israel isn’t just repairing hearts of foreign children. Israeli surgeons have been going to Swaziland to help fight disease. The Washington Post reported Israeli Surgeons Helping Swaziland in Drive to Curb HIV. When I read that, I wondered how do … Continue reading
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A particularly violent weekend in the Palestinian Arab territories
Readers of my blog know that I have been keeping a count of all Palestinian Arabs violently killed by each other. So far this year I have counted 556 deaths, including 33 women and 40 children. The past few days … Continue reading
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“Discomfort?” maybe he needs a thesaurus
Ha’aretz is reporting that The Palestinian militants suspected of plotting to attack Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convoy earlier this year were arrested for a second time on Friday and will face a military trial, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said … Continue reading
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Olmert escapes terror attack in Jericho
From Ynet: A group of gunmen affiliated with Fatah attempted to hit Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s convoy as it made its way from Jerusalem to Jericho for a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on August 6, Shin Bet chief … Continue reading