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: Middle East
Hamas Islamists: Same as the old boss, but meaner
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, only this time, he uses religion as an excuse for his tyranny: Order also means torture, even if this isn’t exactly something Abu Ras is willing to admit. Palestinians who have … Continue reading
Fulbright sequel
Two months ago the State Department embarrassed Israel into allowing a number of students from Gaza travel abroad as Fullbright scholars. At the time the NYT reported: The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in … Continue reading
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Peace teaser
The Washington Post reports Syrian General Who Oversaw Arms Shipments Assassinated: A Syrian general shot to death at a beach resort over the weekend was a top overseer of his country’s weapons shipments to Hezbollah, according to opposition Web sites … Continue reading
… arrested by his enemy
Ethan Bronner contributes an analysis of the rescue of the Hilles clan by Israel. He gives one explanation why Abbas didn’t want to receive the Hilles clan. In truth, the relationship between the Fatah leadership in the West Bank and … Continue reading
Bad bets
I*Consult reflects on the recent rescue of a number of Fatah loyalists from Gaza who were saved by Israel over the weekend. He points out that Israel was simply doing something it had done a number of times before and … Continue reading
Racist apartheid state saves terrorists’ lives
The racist apartheid state of Israel is allowing 90 members of Fatah, many of whom are no doubt terrorists, to flee Gaza and resettle in the West Bank—because they are in imminent danger of being killed by Hamas terrorists. But … Continue reading
The myth of land for peace
Ehud Olmert insists that the Syrians want peace. Some pundits are claiming that Syria needs only to be torn from its alliance with Iran, given back the Golan Heights, and allowed to continue its domination of Lebanon, and there will … Continue reading
Hello martyr, hello Fatah
Last week a number of bloggers noted that AP had a picture of girls at a summer camp in Gaza. Cute. They were holding a missile aloft. Not so cute. Backspin wonders how many papers carried the picture. Mere Rhetoric … Continue reading
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Hamas vs Fatah – it’s getting ugly indeed
It looks like simply killing off one another is not enough anymore for Hamas and Fatah: The internecine fight between Hamas and Fatah has gotten ugly – at least for Palestinians who favor men with mustaches. Hamas has resumed its … Continue reading
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Mortars from Gaza: Civil war ending barrage
The typical Palestinian way to end internal strife is to attack Israel. Like clockwork, here come the mortars. Three mortar shells struck the western Negev late Saturday night, causing neither damage nor injury. The shelling come amid fears that Palestinian … Continue reading
Syria and Iran, BFF
Yeah, they’re going so well, those indirect talks, that Ahmadinejad has the Syrian Foreign Minister in town and is talking about being BFF. Like, omigawd! Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met on Tuesday evening with visiting Syrian Foreign Affairs Minister, Walid … Continue reading
A passive aggressive national ethos
The other day I commented on a story from the Washington Post that Arab states were failing to fulfill their commitments to fund the Palestinian Authority. Since then a few other bloggers have written about the story as well as … Continue reading
Ready for a rumble
Yesterday I expressed skepticism that Fatah and Hamas were headed for a civil war. Maybe I was too quick. There are indications that things have indeed heated up. Whether they’ve reached a plateau or will continue to escalate remains to … Continue reading
Gaza economics 101
The UN is really, really worried about the economy of the Gaza Strip. UNRWA workers claim poverty is at “unprecedented” highs. The number of households in the Gaza Strip below the poverty line has reached an unprecedented high of nearly … Continue reading
Israeli columnist: Hamastan is a good thing!
When I saw the following link at Ha’aretz – Aluf Benn: ‘Hamastan’ is prototyope for future Palestinian state, I was surprised. Benn is a committed leftist, and I was surprised that he was acknowledging the danger of strengthening Hamas. Then … Continue reading
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