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
Mideast Media Sampler 01/07/2014
The Editors’ Unreal Mideast The New York Times and Washington Post have both recently weighed in with editorials about John Kerry’s peace process. First the New York Times ran The Ticking Mideast Clock. Signs of failure are everywhere. On Thursday, … Continue reading
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Yeah, about that peace process…
I told you so, part one: Demands that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state have become a major stumbling block in John Kerry’s search for a settlement to the Middle East’s most enduring conflict. As the US secretary … Continue reading
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Israel, Israel, Israel!
The AP continues its tradition of explicitly blaming Israel for all failures in Middle East negotiations. Let’s look at the headline and lead: Israeli Hardliners Object to Kerry Pressure Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline coalition partners on Sunday stepped up pressure on … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 01/03/2014
The Diplomacy that Enables Tehran When I was almost fifty four, it was a very good year It was a very good year for kindly faced clerics Whose Justice Minister was an executioner And Defense Minister waged an anti-American war … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 01/02/2014
Hard Choices for Israel; Soft Treatment for the PA John Kerry is returning to the Middle East to present his peace plan. Two recent articles show the way the peace process is misrepresented in the media. The AP reports Israel, … Continue reading
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Thursday briefs
But I thought the Antarctic ice is melting? A team of scientists have been rescued from a ship that’s been stuck “unusually thick” Antarctic ice for ten days. Funny, just yesterday I saw a WWF commercial telling me how thin … Continue reading
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Releasing murderers in the name of peace
Israel releases convicted murderers, most of whom killed civilians, and the world downplays the Palestinian celebrations of their crimes. The 26 inmates had been jailed before the signing of the 1993 Oslo accords, which formally launched the Middle East peace … Continue reading
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But sure, gay rights groups, protest Israel: Same-sex couples are now being treated equally under Israeli tax laws. Also, Israel doesn’t execute or imprision gays. But they know that, and don’t care. More murderers going free: Too disgusted to comment. … Continue reading
Once more unto the AP bias
It’s been a long time since I did one of these posts, but the AP does not change its spots. This is one of the many subtle ways the world media in general–and the AP in particular–discredits the Israeli side … Continue reading
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Spies, spies, everywhere there’s spies: So now it’s been revealed that the U.S. was spying on Ehud Olmert and other leaders of Israel. Looks like that makes their retention of Jonathan Pollard just a tad hypocritical, hey? Toldja so, Part … Continue reading
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Thursday briefs
Of course they do: Hezbollah is blaming Israel for a terrorist bomb in the Bekaa Valley yesterday. But everyone knows the reason Hezbollah is being targeted is their thousands of fighters supporting the Assad regime in Syria. So go ahead, … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 12/18/2013
It’s not the Occupation, Stupid Eugene Kontorovich wrote an important essay for Commentary, Israel, Palestine, and Democracy. Here are three critical paragraphs from the middle of the essay: The Palestinians have developed an independent, self-regulating government that controls their lives … Continue reading
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The hatred of Israel in academia
The American Studies Assocation, for reasons that I really cannot fathom, voted to boycott Israeli academics. The American Studies Association said endorsement of the boycott “emerges from the context of U.S. military and other support for Israel,” among a host … Continue reading
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Mideast peace: Not gonna happen
John Kerry is of the opinion that he can get a peace plan in place by spring. Pressure Israel all you want, dude. Because this is what you have to deal with, and why there will be no peace agreement: … Continue reading
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The modern war of attrition
It’s been a standard tactic of the Arab states for decades: When you can’t have an all-out war, kill as many Israelis as you can one or two or a few dozen at a time. Because world opinion will not … Continue reading
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