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
Briefs
Update on the Quechup problem: Say, the nice folks at the brandy new social network are taking your contacts list without permission and using it to spam your friends! Isn’t that special? That’s why I got five invites in one … Continue reading
The Temple Mount destruction: Greater hands involved
You know, sometimes, it really does seem that there may be an unseen purpose to things we simply can’t predict. Like, our outrage at the Muslim Waqf bulldozing a large trench in the Temple Mount may be misplaced. In fact, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel 8 Comments
Evidence against the neocon Iraq conspiracy
Please. Don’t complicate the situation with facts, people! Israel is the reason the Bush neocons started the Iraq war. Everyone knows that. Well, except for this guy: WASHINGTON – Israeli officials warned the George W Bush administration that an invasion … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome 2 Comments
Israeli Double Standard Time, Temple Mount version
Say, remember that worldwide media blitz about how Israeli archeologists were going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque by building a new ramp to the Temple Mount? Remember the incredibly biased stories that insisted on minimizing the Temple Mount’s meaning to … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israeli Double Standard Time, Religion 6 Comments
Much ado about Meshaal
It is not to say that journalists shouldn’t pursue an interesting story where they can. And interviewing Khaled Meshaal, the under-assassinated head of Hamas, is a good story. This article, however, is almost totally devoid of anything new, aside of … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Terrorism 2 Comments
Mobile checkpoints
Ehud Barak thinks that mobile checkpoints will do the job that stationary checkpoints are doing. Defense Minister Ehud Barak wants to replace permanent checkpoints in the West Bank with mobile ones, to ease restrictions on Palestinian traffic while still safeguarding … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Terrorism 6 Comments
Chuztpah dept., Hezbollah style
First they send rockets into Israel, cross the border illegally, kill Israeli soldiers, and kidnap two, of whom we’ve received absolutely no proof of life. Now, Hezbollah is going to sue Israel—for the war that they started. Hezbollah is planning … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Lebanon 3 Comments
Abbas talks peace, Palestinians want war
The “military wing” of Fatah—which is the same as saying that the U.S. Army is the “military wing” of the government—is claiming the latest rocket attack on Sderot, which injured an Israeli civilian and would have killed had the rocket … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 2 Comments
Israeli Sudanese policy that won’t get wide notice
Israel’s return of 48 Sudanese refugees got worldwide notice—because anything the media can spin negatively on Israel gets the widest airplay. Stories like this will not get a second glance outside the Israeli media. Seventy-six Sudanese refugees, ages four and … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time 3 Comments
Hamas plots more terror
Hard on the heels of a foiled terror plot, Ynet reports that Hamas is gearing up for a major “heavy casualty” attack in Israel. Hamas may carry out a mega-terror attack, the Deputy Shin Bet Chief, known only as Y, … Continue reading
Measuring an obsession
Roaming the CiF (The Guardian’s Comment is Free forum) jungle, I have stumbled on an interesting page – one that shows the frequency of main subjects broached on CiF. It is not clear what period of time is represented, but … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome 2 Comments
One more media bias post
The AP picked up on the Palestinian “civilians” killed by Israel today (go read this post and you’ll get the snark to the scare quotes), and of course, focused on the 11-year-old boy who was caught in the crossfire. They … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel 1 Comment
The UN and EU: All set for Durban II
The UN World Conference on Racism, held in Durban, South Africa, just prior to 9/11, went down in the annals of UN as one of the most infamous, hideously anti-Israel events, even by UN standards. Israel and the United States … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, World 5 Comments
It’s terrorist season
The JPost has an anaylsis of why we’ve seen so many successful attacks on terrorists in Gaza lately. Here’s a hint: Having an actual military man directing military operations seems to be a bit help. The recent escalation stems from … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 7 Comments
Mahmoud Abbas, moderate, peacemaker, and LIAR
The so-called moderate, Mahmoud Abbas, with whom the Israelis are supposed to be moving forward towards final-status issues, issued a statement about the number of terrorists killed by the IDF yesterday: A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 3 Comments