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
The AP buries the lede on Hezbollah
You know your “evidence” is bogus when even the AP is laughing at Hezbollah’s attempt to blame Israel for Hariri’s death. However, they buried the lede in this article. It’s titled “UN gets Hezbollah ‘evidence’ on Israel-Hariri link,” but four … Continue reading
The failed UN peacekeeping in Lebanon
I think the “U” in UNIFIL should really stand for “Useless.” Witness: In an interview with The Associated Press on Mount Adir, a hill overlooking the border, an officer from the military’s Northern Command pointed through the summer haze at … Continue reading
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The sudden twist in Hamas propaganda
Aussie Dave aka Israelly Cool noticed it: The palestinians, their supporters, and those who do not, but should know, better have been portraying Gaza as a concentration camp/prison camp – replete with widespread poverty and starvation. … The proliferation of … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel 5 Comments
Friday, briefly
Guess the ethnicity gets even better on the updates! Now you just know he’s from Israel, and is a “religious, God-fearing man“. So once again, I’m going to perform a public service: Elias Abuelazzam (Abu al-Azzam) is NOT a Jewish … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time Tagged Iran, Israel, Media Bias, Palestinians 2 Comments
Thursday news roundup
The AP notices that Palestinians have more rights in Israel than in Lebanon: It’s a profile of the Lebanese debate about whether to give Palestinians the right to work in the country where they’ve lived (in many cases) all their … Continue reading
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The Point of No Return
Jeffrey Goldberg has a long piece in the Atlantic on whether or not Israel is going to attack Iran’s nukes. Here’s a hint: He thinks it’s going to be in the coming spring. The main question was, is, and continues … Continue reading
Wednesday sniefs
Please don’t attack the country we’re selling weapons to: The French stopped Israel from launching a large-scale attack to teach Lebanon that there is a price to pay for ambushing and murdering Israeli soldiers. Oh, and the Obama administration sent … Continue reading
The AP: Back to its normal anti-Israel bias
The AP bias returns: In this article about Lebanon attempting to “reassure” Congress that Hezbullah has nothing at all to do with its army, the AP describes the Lebanese ambush on the IDF as follows: The Congressman Berman said his … Continue reading
Nasrallah’s “revelations” of Zionist crimes
The trailer to this thriller was published a week ago: The leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. In a fiery speech, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah … Continue reading
Two more balanced AP pieces on Israel? Seriously?
Seriously. Though it comes at the very end of this article on the mysterious case of the arrest of an Israeli who was photographing Jewish sites in Libya, it still tells the truth about why a Jew from another country … Continue reading
Briefs
Tony Judt won’t be criticizing Israel any more: Tony Judt’s ALS killed him. If you plan on celebrating his death in my comments, don’t. My father died of ALS. It’s a horrible disease, and the man suffered immensely in the … Continue reading
Pigs are flying: A Gaza story that doesn’t mention Israel
I’m in shock. The AP reported on Gaza power outages truthfully. There isn’t a single word blaming Israel for the Palestinian-caused shortage. Hamas and the PA are fighting over who has to pay for the fuel, and the poorer Gazans … Continue reading
Correcting the Israel-Lebanon media narrative
The world media have grudgingly released the news that UNIFIL actually backs Israel’s versions of the ambush of IDF soldiers by Lebanese snipers. But the narrative is still that it’s a volatile border, and Israel’s extremely hostile act of pruning … Continue reading
More fallout from the Lebanese border incident
Most of the info in this post comes from Army radio, some of it, not necessarily in that order or one place, could be found on the Internet. Yesterday a meeting as held in Nakura between UNIFIL commander in the … Continue reading
World media: Reflexively anti-Israel
Yesterday, only the Israeli press was carrying statements from UNIFIL saying that the IDF soldiers who were fired on by the Lebanese yesterday were definitely on the Israeli side of the border. The mainstream media couldn’t seem to find a … Continue reading