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: Gaza
What truce?
The so-called “cease-fire,” during which palestinians felt themselves perfectly able to launch kassam rockets at Israel (back into the double-digits per day), has taken another “accidental” hit on palestinians in Beit Hanoun. You remember Beit Hanoun. It’s the town where … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel 2 Comments
palestinian civil war watch
Ongoing. Despite the ceasefire agreement that was reached between Hamas and Fatah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call to end the fierce fighting, Palestinian sources reported Monday of continued gun battles between rival factions since the morning hours. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics 4 Comments
palestinian civil war watch
Pending: Chairman of the Hamas faction in parliament Khalil al-Haya, told a crowd of tens of thousands at a Hamas rally in Gaza Friday that “(Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas has declared war on Allah and on the will of the … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics 4 Comments
Red on red
The Gaza Civil War Watch escalates. Palestinian gunmen forced a Hamas commander to his knees and fatally shot him early Wednesday outside of the courthouse where he worked as an Islamic judge, escalating factional tensions in the Gaza Strip. The … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics 2 Comments
What part of “Hamas will destroy Israel” don’t you understand?
Once again, there are signs that the EU and the US are ready to ignore a terrorist organization’s outright admission that it will not stop terror until the state of Israel is destroyed. Once again, the world utterly ignores that … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel 5 Comments
Too good to be true: More kassams fired
Two days of sort-of truce, when there were no kassam rockets fired (Wednesday and Thursday) have ended with a literal bang: The terrorists launched more kassams this morning. Oh, the “sort-of” label? That’s because the pals were trying to kill … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time 4 Comments
The Israel-only cease-fire
I swear, you could recycle my posts. Just look back in my archives to find the exact same thing. Okay, so a cease-fire is declared for Sunday. Terrorists launch rockets into Israel an hour after it was supposed to take … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time, Terrorism 5 Comments
Ceasefire – the travesty continues
Palestinian lawmaker Saeb Erekat on Monday condemned a Qassam rocket strike on Israel from Gaza earlier in the day, but said that the day-old cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians “can work, and I believe we have to make it … Continue reading
FFIPP-International: another bunch of useful… scientists
(It’s no use telling self to limit the surfing to places self already knows. Self seems to be incorrigible.) And so it happened that I have stumbled upon another interesting bunch of people that call themselves (a bit pompously to … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Terrorism 2 Comments
The cease-fire that isn’t
Let’s stop and think a moment. Why were IDF troops in Gaza? Because the palestinians were launching kassam rockets every day into Sderot, the Negev, and other points in Israel. So we have a cease-fire that takes effect Sunday morning. … Continue reading
The travesty of cease-fire
The CNN article Rockets hit Israel after Gaza cease-fire deadline illustrates exceedingly well the chances of reaching a meaningful agreement with our neighbors: Palestinian militants in Gaza launched rocket attacks into Israel Sunday, Israeli police and army officials said, hours … Continue reading
Hamas violates its own truce; we are not surprised
So the truce is violated not just by Islamic Jihad, which we expected, but by Hamas’ own terrorists, which we did not. Of course, the excuse will arise that they were operating without orders, which begs the question as to … Continue reading
Terrorists call a cease-fire, Meryl scoffs
A cease-fire? I don’t believe it will hold a single day. Israel accepted a Palestinian cease-fire to go in effect Sunday morning, and will stop military operations in Gaza in return for an end to all Palestinian violence, including rocket … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 5 Comments
The IDF goes after the rocketeers
Hamas wants Israel to evacuate Sderot in order to stop the rocket barrage. The only way to stop the regular rocket fire on Sderot, an Israeli city of about 20,000 nearly three miles from the Gaza Strip border, is for … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 3 Comments
Kassam rockets: Getting deadlier
I’ve been pointing out that the kassam rockets are getting deadlier, and will continue to get deadlier, since the Philadelphi corridor is no longer patrolled by the IDF and the Egyptians turn a blind eye to smuggling. Yet another attack, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Terrorism 2 Comments