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
Two more balanced AP pieces on Israel? Seriously?
Seriously. Though it comes at the very end of this article on the mysterious case of the arrest of an Israeli who was photographing Jewish sites in Libya, it still tells the truth about why a Jew from another country … Continue reading
You’re one of the destructive ones Tom
I’m happy today that Thomas Friedman appreciates the difference between “constructive” and “destructive” critics of Israel. I write about this now because there is something foul in the air. It is a trend, both deliberate and inadvertent, to delegitimize Israel … Continue reading
Briefs
Tony Judt won’t be criticizing Israel any more: Tony Judt’s ALS killed him. If you plan on celebrating his death in my comments, don’t. My father died of ALS. It’s a horrible disease, and the man suffered immensely in the … Continue reading
The trouble beneath the surface
Meryl wrote: But the early stories that came out heavily supported Lebanon’s claim that Israeli forces were over the border. Oh, the next graf almost always issued the Israeli denial, but that’s how journalism works: When you want someone to … Continue reading
Friday morning open thread
Busy with work and other things. If you have a link you want me to check out, post it in the comments. Or just say hello to one another.
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Correcting the Israel-Lebanon media narrative
The world media have grudgingly released the news that UNIFIL actually backs Israel’s versions of the ambush of IDF soldiers by Lebanese snipers. But the narrative is still that it’s a volatile border, and Israel’s extremely hostile act of pruning … Continue reading
More fallout from the Lebanese border incident
Most of the info in this post comes from Army radio, some of it, not necessarily in that order or one place, could be found on the Internet. Yesterday a meeting as held in Nakura between UNIFIL commander in the … Continue reading
Reporting on yesterday’s Israel-Lebanon clash
I was very frustrated yesterday when I read the account of the clash at the Israeli border with Lebanon in the New York Times. Even as more and more information was filtering out showing that the firing had clearly started … Continue reading
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World media: Reflexively anti-Israel
Yesterday, only the Israeli press was carrying statements from UNIFIL saying that the IDF soldiers who were fired on by the Lebanese yesterday were definitely on the Israeli side of the border. The mainstream media couldn’t seem to find a … Continue reading
The Lebanese border deaths: who benefits?
When the smoke of the shooting dispersed a bit and the details started to emerge, the picture became clear quite soon. IDF had informed UNIFIL about the maintenance work to be performed in the enclave, which is a part of … Continue reading
Zabla it ain’t
There’s a concept in Jewish law of “zeh borer lo echad” or “each one chooses one.” In Hebrew, the term is shortened to its acronym, “zabla.” When two litigants have a court case requiring three judges, each litigant chooses a … Continue reading
Clash on Israel’s border with Lebanon
Fighting broke out this morning on Israel’s northern border. A day after rockets were fired at Eilat, loud explosions were reported on the northern border as Israeli and Lebanese forces engaged in massive exchanges of fire. Security sources and witnesses … Continue reading
Andrew Sullivan and the anti-Israel narrative
Andrew Sullivan is mad, mad, MAD at Lee Smith for suggesting that Andy is stirring up the Jew haters out there. But what his little essay reveals, it seems to me, is a panic that the discourse about Israel has … Continue reading
The thrill of being needed
In an op-ed today, Efraim Karsh writes about “The Palesitnians alone.” The thrust of his article is that over the years the Palestinian cause has been adopted by those who don’t have Palestinian interests in mind. Not surprisingly, the Arab … Continue reading
Monday briefs
Terrorists aim for Israelis, murder their own again: Terrorists tried to kill Jews, and wound up killing a Jordanian taxi driver instead. You aim for Eilat, you hit the town next to it—which happens to be in Jordan. Well, better … Continue reading
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