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
Nondeterrence equals more missiles
Palestinians really have nothing to fear from launching rockets into Israel on a daily basis. Few of the missile launchers have actually been tracked down and killed. So they keep on firing missiles. Case in point: Palestinian terror groups launched … Continue reading
Irony is so Sept. 10th
You simply can’t make this stuff up. Kim Jong Il rushes to the aid of Bashar Assad. North Korea commented on the incident in which Israeli planes allegedly entered Syrian airspace last week, calling it a “dangerous provocation”, Chinese News … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria, World 2 Comments
And now, the calls for restraint
Once again, the world shows that Jewish blood is cheap to them. Israeli politicians and defense officials have been calling for a more aggressive Israeli response to the near-daily rocket barrages out of Gaza. Attacks last week on the frequently … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time 4 Comments
Media bias: Kassam attack update
The AP headline has changed, there’s a new author, the boilerplates remain, and the lede is different, but the spin remains the same: Rocket Wounds Dozens of Israeli Troops Sep 11, 7:58 AM (ET) By YANIV ZOHAR ZIKIM, Israel (AP) … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Media Bias 2 Comments
Monitoring the AP anti-Israel bias
Let’s keep an eye on this story. Here’s the first AP story on the kassam that landed in a military base in the Negev: Rocket Hits Sleeping Israeli Soldiers By ARON HELLER – 59 minutes ago JERUSALEM (AP) — A … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel, Terrorism 4 Comments
“Crude, homemade rocket” injures 25
The “crude, homemade rockets” that are launched into Israel on a near-daily basis found a mark: Sleeping soldiers. More than 25 Israelis soldiers were hospitalized after a Qassam rocket launched from northern Gaza landed on a military base in the … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 2 Comments
Feel the Frog anger
The AFP is so pissed off that Israeli officials won’t leak secret information, it practically leaps off the monitor. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli officials Sunday maintained an uncharacteristic veil of silence over Syrian reports that Israeli warplanes violated its airspace. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias 2 Comments
The Israel Lobby, hardcover edition
Two interesting pieces on the Walt-Mearsheimer anti-Israel screed, for your reading pleasure. The first is in the WSJ: A crop of Israel’s critics — most prominently Jimmy Carter and now Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, the authors of “The Israel … Continue reading
Shalit’s kidnapper kidnapped
Jews are wicked funny. We really are. A group of undercover Israeli soldiers disguised as Arabs on Friday kidnapped a senior Hamas member of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, near the Rafah crossing in the Gaza Strip, … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel 10 Comments
Broken clock syndrome
In the hopes that DEBKA is actually right for once, I’m passing along this information (via Hot Air): DEBKAfile’s military experts conclude from the way Damascus described the episode Wednesday, Sept. 6, that the Pantsyr-S1E missiles, purchased from Russia to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel 6 Comments
What’s going on in Israel?
So there was a disputed IAF flyover in Syria, which no Israeli politician is talking about. Terrorists tried—and failed—to kidnap more Israeli soldiers (because gee, that’s working out so well for Hamas and Hezbollah now, isn’t it?). And Ban Ki-Moon … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Lebanon 4 Comments
NY Times Book Review bitchslaps Walt & Mearsheimer
The New York Times reviewed Walt & Mearsheimer’s extended-play version of the anti-Israel paper they released last year. I like the subtle Times-style digs throughout, and there’s a laugh-out-loud line at the end that in eight words utterly refutes the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn 12 Comments
The Israel Darfur double standard, continued
A couple of weeks ago, all of the major media outlets picked up the story that Israel was sending some Sudanese refugees back to Egypt, where they had fled the cruel treatment and substandard Egyptian hospitality. The world media was … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 2 Comments
Israel’s politicians show their impotence
So it comes to this: Rockets are falling on Sderot’s schoolchildren, and it is only a matter of time before they score a hit. The IDF is prepared to respond. Some high-level politicians call for cutting electricity, fuel, or water … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 4 Comments
Sderot: one more step towards ghost town
I could be somewhat obsessed about this, but here it goes again: “We have decided to make Sderot a ghost town,” said a spokesman for Hamas who gave his name as Abu Ubeideh. “We are not going to stop launching … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel 7 Comments