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
Rogin’s understatements
In this dispatch at Foreign Policy (via memeorandum) Josh Rogin writes: “Clearly one way that Iran is increasing its influence in the region is by exploiting the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians,” Ross said, echoing statements made by U.S. … Continue reading
The Post on proximity talks
The Washington Post has a pretty good editorial on the upcoming proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Israelis and Palestinians are ready to begin talking — sort of: INDIRECT TALKS between Israelis and Palestinians appear finally set to … Continue reading
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Wednesday snarkers
Mad Mahmoud is laughing at Obama: He’s not just insulting him, he’s taunting him. Iran isn’t afraid of sanctions. (Probably because there aren’t any and won’t be anytime soon.) Wow, that outstretched hand did a lot. Smart power! Note to … Continue reading
The Israel prism
There are those, who, in order to show their sophistication about the Middle East will claim that it is Israel’s position that makes peace in the Middle East so elusive. A recent variation on this was the March post in … Continue reading
The key to “Minority Report”
Quite a few bloggers have commented on Benjamin Birnbaum’s “Minority Report” – an account of Robert Bernstein’s break from HRW – in the New Republic. There were some ironies. According to Birnbaum, Marc Garlasco was one of the HRW staffers … Continue reading
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Monday snarks
Oh, well, I’m convinced then: The Pope says the shroud of Turin is legit. The hell with carbon dating and science! I’m listening to the guy in Christian kippa! AP confirms the blockade of Hamas is working: Hamas is running … Continue reading
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Arabs allow indirect talks
In Arabs Back Indirect Talks Between Palestinians – NYTimes.com, Michael Slackman reports: Arab ministers gathered late Saturday at the offices of the Arab League here at the request of the Palestinian leadership, which sought regional support before agreeing, again, to … Continue reading
John Mearsheimer’s speech on Jews: Echoes of the 1930s
Let’s take a walk through history and compare the speech that John Mearsheimer gave to the Palestine Center with a few historical speeches given by two other men who claimed they had nothing, really, against the Jews. Mearsheimer titled his … Continue reading
The NYT’s one sided debate
I did a quick roundup of op-eds appearing at the New York Times website duirng the year 2010. I suppose it may be somewhat arbitrary, but I did a search on the words “Israel” and “Hamas” between January 1, 2010 … Continue reading
Your Thursday morning snark
Stop making sense, you racist! One of the drafters of the Arizona immigration law has an op-ed in the Times that points out the lies in the propaganda of the law’s opponents—including, of course, our Constitutional scholar of a president. … Continue reading
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Hamas, hate and humanitarianism
Robert Mackey writes about an ad that Hamas released implicitly threatening to kill Gilad Schalit. The video, which was posted on the Web site of the Hamas Qassam Brigades and on YouTube, uses the real voice of the captured solider … Continue reading
Wednesday briefs
Cold… cold… cold… burning up! What freeze? The AP is the only news outlet that claimed a “de facto freeze” on building in Jerusalem, and now the AP is effectively recanting that claim—but without issuing a correction or retraction. Funny, … Continue reading
Why we need bloggers
Take a paragraph from a recent New York Times news story: The talks with the two leaders had been expected to begin last month but were delayed after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem, where … Continue reading
Why peace processes fail
Recently, Meryl, Daled Amos and I have both written about the perverse incentives and results of the peace procdess. Now Bret Stephens writes about how Peace Processes never work: But he misses a deeper point. Even as peace processes almost … Continue reading