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
Deterrence works
Last week, Hamas launched over 130 rockets into southern Israel. In response, the IDF took out rocket squads, destroyed a Hamas building, and closed off Gaza. In spite of the propaganda coming out of Hamas, and being passed on through … Continue reading
Nasrallah’s greatest secret
After year and a half of hiding, Nasrallah the Lebanese groundhog emerged from his bunker. Triumphantly too, and with good reason. It is not for nothing that he spent the time in seclusion, it appears, and all rumors about his … Continue reading
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Until the dust settles
Sderot: beseiged and abandoned The situation in Sderot as it looks to Seth Freedman. Quite precise. Then he comes to the whattodo part: Evacuating them to safety, whatever the cost, is the least they deserve until the dust settles. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Terrorism 6 Comments
Today’s Sderot forecast: 100% chance it’s raining missiles
Twenty-eight Thirty more missiles rained down on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian territory that Israel withdrew from in 2005 in the hopes of creating a more peaceful existence with the Palestinians. Funny how that didn’t work. The … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Media Bias 1 Comment
The AP reads my blog, part 2
The AP reads my blog. They’re getting closer and closer to admitting that the rocket barrage of Sderot actually causes problems for the residents. Gaza militants, led by Hamas, fired dozens of rockets and mortars at Israeli towns, causing no … Continue reading
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Closing Gaza
Ehud Barak has ordered the complete closure of the Gaza crossings—at least, the ones controlled by Israel. I’m quite sure that Egypt will do whatever it wants. At present time only authorized personnel and goods are allowed through the crossings, … Continue reading
AP equates bombing civilians with targeting terrorists
The AP has decided it can’t keep ignoring the rocket barrages landing on Israeli civilians, but it can equate them with the IDF taking out terrorists. Hamas and Israel Trade Fire Over Gaza Note the headline. Hamas is “trading fire,” … Continue reading
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Thai company cuts off Hezbullah-TV propaganda
The Thai satellite company that was beaming Al-Manar, Hezbullah’s propaganda channel, to Asian nations, has pulled the plug on Chipmunk Cheeks and his sermons of hate. A Thai satellite company said Wednesday it stopped airing broadcasts of the Al-Manar television … Continue reading
More Palestinian war crimes
The “cycle of violence” yesterday: Terrorists in Gaza murdered an Ecuadoran volunteer, firing at him while he worked in the field at a kibbutz. The IDF attacked a group of Hamas terrorists, killing at least a dozen of them. Mahmoud … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias 4 Comments
And now to the next step in the PR attack
The ink on the first installment of the Gazan propaganda on the fuel shortages has not dried yet, and the ever servile AP with its tame photographers are ready with visual aids: The capture under this one: Palestinians warm themselves … Continue reading
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“Humanitarian aid” to the PA: Two tons of explosive material
Once again, Israeli security forces found Palestinians attempting to smuggle material used to make explosives into the Gaza Strip. Two tons of it. That goes along with the six and a half tons of potassium nitrate in UN bags caught … Continue reading
All nied up
via memeorandumfrom Bothersome Intel on Iran by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek Israeli and other foreign officials asked Bush to explain the NIE, which concluded with “high confidence” that Iran halted what the document describes as its “nuclear weapons program.” The NIE … Continue reading
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On the care and feeding of autocrats
Shibley Telhami, who has made a career of interpreting polling data from totalitarian regimes, tells us today that “It’s not about Iran.”(If your leader, through the media and other apparatuses of state, makes clear that the Israeli “occupation” of Palestine … Continue reading
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The unacknowledged war
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip have been at war with Israel for years. The Jews of Gaza are gone, but the war continues. On Sunday, another volley of mortars fell on Israeli communities, pretty much unnoticed by all but … Continue reading
How to Win Friends and Influence People
This is only a part of the headline (they told me not to make them too long). The other part is: Or lying through your teeth about power shortages in Gaza The story by Barry Rubin of Gloria Center has … Continue reading
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