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
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Read this one in full: Noam Shalit is interviewed by Hamas, and shoves their propaganda right down their throats. In response to the host’s claim that the demand made by the groups holding Gilad that Israel release long-time male prisoners, … Continue reading
Another day, another rocket attack on Israel
Three crude, homemade kassam rockets landed in the backyard of a Sderot home, spreading metal shards and shrapnel all around, and injuring three of the residents of that home. But Israel should not launch “retaliatory” attacks because they would be … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel 3 Comments
Things that make you go hmmm
We interrupt your boring weekend with this piece of news: The Israel Air Force has significantly upgraded the level of its cooperation with the United States Air Force and now receives regular updates on American procurement decisions, The Jerusalem Post … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel 4 Comments
Hamas tactics: Fear, murder, and intimidation
This is the group that Jimmy Carter thinks we should negotiate with. Their tactics were apparently learned in the Saddam Hussein School of Government: The near-perfect public order that reigned in Gaza this week can be attributed, at least in … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas 4 Comments
Trying the same failed policies. Yeah, that’ll work.
Let’s see. First, they threw money at the Palestinians. That didn’t work. Then, they gave them weapons and training to stop terrorism. That didn’t work. Then, they let terrorists out of jail. That didn’t work. They held summits. Those didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 4 Comments
Abbas brands Hamas “terrorists,” terrorists vow revenge
So, when one terrorist group calls another terrorist group terrorists, does it truly mean anything? I mean, come on—Fatah’s got its own branch of plausible-deniability terrorists (yeah, that would be Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade). Anyway, it is rather fun to see … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics 7 Comments
Compare and contrast
Let’s do yet another compare and contrast. Compare Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians taking refuge in the Erez Crossing: Hamas came by to deliver bullets and hand grenades, killing one and wounding many. Israel sent ambulances and health-care professionals. The … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza 3 Comments
Mahmoud Abbas’ terrorists busy trying to kill Israelis
So that deal that Abbas wants—the one where Israel gives all the concessions and Fatah says that honest, really, truly, they’re going to stop terrorism this time? I’m thinking not so much. Two armed Palestinians were killed in a gunfight … Continue reading
Posted in palestinian politics, Terrorism 3 Comments
The New York Times recognizes the Palestinian pathologies
Fouad Ajami says, well, everything that I’ve been saying for years about Gaza and the West Bank, as well as what I’m saying about the current Palestinian situation. And he says it on the New York Times op-ed page. The … Continue reading
Posted in palestinian politics 6 Comments
Thugs stick together like guns and bullets
Some members of Fatah have decided to join the other side. Meanwhile, a group of Fatah members have broken away from the movement’s main body to form a Gaza-based splinter organization aligned to Hamas, its new leader said on Monday. … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas 2 Comments
Hamas imprisoning Gazans; Israel blamed
Buried deeply within this AP story about Gazans trying to flee to Israel at the Erez crossing is this information: In related news, Hamas have deployed gunmen along the 8-mile border road separating Egypt from Gaza, and at the Rafah … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Hamas Comments Off on Hamas imprisoning Gazans; Israel blamed
Hamas hits Fatah in the Erez Crossing
This looks like a hit to me: Palestinian gunmen turned their weapons away from each other and towards Israel Monday evening, hurling grenades and opening fire towards IDF soldiers manning the Erez Crossing. The troops responded with fire. At least … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas 2 Comments
Salman Rushdie knighted, Iran insulted
I have to say, this made me smile. Iran on Sunday condemned Britain’s decision to knight Salman Rushdie, the author who was forced into hiding for a decade after the leader of the Iranian revolution ordered his assassination. Iran Foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, The Catmage Chronicles 7 Comments
Abbas to Israel: Lie down and die, please
Really. Look at the demands Abbas is making. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas intends to demand that Israel immediately implement the American “benchmarks” proposal for increasing Palestinian freedom of movement in the territories. In addition, he will ask Israel to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 11 Comments
Rockets from Lebanon, take two
Looks like someone wants Israel to get back into Lebanon. Two 107 millimeter-diameter Katyusha rockets landed in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported. At around 5:20 pm, residents of the northern town reported the … Continue reading