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
Fool Flotilla to be met with counter-protest
Awesome. A fleet of privately owned Israeli boats will leave the Ashdod and Herzliya marinas in hopes of surprising the European activists Friday at 1 p.m. The counter flotilla ships will be covered in “Free Gaza from Hamas†banners and … Continue reading
Lunchtime briefs
Palestinian spokesliars strike again; media complies: According to the AP, 15 civilians were hurt an an airstrike that targeted a Hamas training camp. Amazing, how many civilians were hanging around the Hamas training camp. Why, it’s almost as if the … Continue reading
Lies my Fatah told me
The headline reads Abbas: Second intifada was one of our worst mistakes The first paragraph reads: “The second intifada was one of our worst mistakes,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told an Egyptian television station on Wednesday. “[Late Palestinian leader Yasser] … Continue reading
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Peter’s perverse principle
I haven’t weighed in on Peter Beinart’s silly essay in the New York Review of Books. Shmuel Rosner though, asked Beinart a few questions. Beinart’s answers show that he’s ignorant of what Israel is. In particular, Beinart, in one of … Continue reading
The messaging or the strategy?
In a meeting with fifteen Rabbis last week, White House shief of staff Rahm Emanuel said that the administration “screwed up the messaging.” Part of me wants to buy that, but I’m very skeptical. I’d have been a lot more … Continue reading
Dreary Monday briefs
Another ship of fools heads to Israel: Yes, time to try to break the “siege” of Gaza again and get really angry when the IDF boards the ship and turns it around. But this time, they’re prepared! They’re having IDF-Boards-Our-Ship … Continue reading
Compare and contrast
North Korea, a nuclear-armed nation, regularly attacks its nearest neighbor for no reason whatsoever, most recently torpedoing a South Korean ship and killing dozens of sailors. North Korea, a nuclear-armed nation, regularly threatens to attack its neighbors and the United … Continue reading
What’s the point of sanctions if there’s no way to enforce them?
The title, Sanctions Effort May Open Door to Press Iran Central Bank, looked promising. The particulars, not so much. American and European officials said Wednesday that the reference, passing though it is, could give them a legal basis in the … Continue reading
Israel’s non-peaceful neighbors
The angle in all of the articles about Israel making peace with the Palestinians is that settlements are obstructing the peace process. The AP has an entire brand-new profile on “Arab East Jerusalem,” almost completely ignoring the fact that the … Continue reading
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What’s the difference between comedy central and al aqsa tv?
Comedy Central publishes anti-Semitic, anti-Israel game The Comedy Central website has published an anti-semitic game called “I.S.R.A.E.L. Attacks,” in which a murderous robot called Israel is called upon to wipe out every cartoon character on the show. The short animated … Continue reading
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Happy Monday briefs
If Israel did this, there’s be ten UN resolutions about it: Hamas beat residents out of their own homes and then razed the buildings. Why? Because Hamas says the homes were built on land the Palestinians don’t own. Hm. Double … Continue reading
History for Arabs but not for Jews
In his famous speech in Cairo last year President Obama said: For decades then, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It’s easy to point fingers — for … Continue reading
No Chomsky, no peace
Noam Chomsky had to cool his heels for four hours before being told he wasn’t welcome in Israel. Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the prominent speakers against the Israeli policy, was stopped Sunday while trying to enter Israel through … Continue reading
Anti-semantic
The NYT’s public editor Clark Hoyt, today navigates “Semantic minefields.” I had little doubt that at least one of those “minefields” would involve the Middle East, and I wasn’t disappointed. No subject arouses reader passion more consistently than the Israeli-Palestinian … Continue reading