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
You can’t be Syria-us
Barry Rubin mines the Pesach Haggadah to illustrate how Syria has been working against American interests in the Middle East: Back to Ford and Syria. Yet even if Syria is not building apartments in east Jerusalem, it might still be … Continue reading
Sunday morning briefs
Yeah, it’s just like anti-Semitism: Some fool priest compared criticism of the Catholic Church’s reaction to priests’ sexual abuse of the children in their parishes to “collective violence” against Jews over the centuries. Yeah, because being angry about covering up … Continue reading
Friday Israel briefs, terrorism edition
What part of “Death to Israel” don’t you understand? The Obama administration is indirectly talking to Hamas via “ex-US diplomats” who are talking to Hamas without official sanction. Really? Talking to the terrorist organization that swears at every opportunity it … Continue reading
The twisted logic of the peace process
The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran an article How the next Middle East War could start, by Ronen Bergman. Unfortunately the article is mostly behind the Journal’s pay wall. A quick summary of the article is that all … Continue reading
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Thursday snarks
More of Obama’s outreach dividend: Hassan Nasrallah, speaking from a secure, undisclosed location, says that Israel is going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Note the timing; tomorrow are Friday prayers for Muslims. Watch for riots. And oh, yeah—he thanked Syrian … Continue reading
Toeing the Palestinian line
There are no “honest brokers” in Middle East peace. The UN is clearly on the side of the Palestinians. It’s not just Palestinian Solidarity Day (or whatever it’s called) held each year. It’s not just the UN bodies voting for … Continue reading
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The wrong Vulcan
Spock (to Stonn): “After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.” From the Star Trek episode “Amok Time“ A number of … Continue reading
Briefly
The British Dubai hissy fit: The Brits can’t prove the Mossad stole their dual citizens’ IDs, but they’re throwing out an Israeli diplomat anyway. Of course they are. They have to protect their Arabist credentials. This is, after all, the … Continue reading
There is hope for British Jews yet
A British university rejected a motion to “twin” itself with Hamas’ Islamic University of Gaza. And they did this even though the Jewish-Israel society, which has only 70 members, was unable to actively campaign against the move. More than 1100 … Continue reading
Ahmadinejad channels Cabaret
This is almost frightening in its unconscious nod to the portrayal of the rise of Nazis in Cabaret. Granted, Cabaret isn’t history. It’s a movie. But the symbolism of the infamous But compare this: “The government is determined to assert … Continue reading
The pro-Palestinian media bias
The media bashes Israel on every occasion, acts as an echo chamber for the Obama administration’s successful attempt to bully the democratically-elected prime minister of Israel into doing what Obama wants him to do. The secretary-general of the UN arrives … Continue reading
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Tony Blair, the bought and paid for envoy
Tony Blair was appointed the Quartet’s Middle East envoy in 2007. Since then, he has amassed millions of dollars working for the governments of Kuwait and Iraq, has formed a consultancy firm that works for Arab governments, and is rumored … Continue reading