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
Imposing Islam in Gaza
From the NYT last week: Hamas makes a point of saying it does not impose strict Islam on others but merely sets an example. There are, nonetheless, Palestinians in Gaza who are more moderate religiously and who oppose Hamas, complaining … Continue reading
Palestinian civilians killed in fighting in Gaza, world ignores it
Did you know there was a big battle in Rafah, near the Egyptian border? Did you also know that it took place in a mosque and a home? Did you further know that civilians were killed in the crossfire? Of … Continue reading
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HRW to Israel: How dare you question our biased reports?
It’s almost funny. Human Rights Watch is in a huff because Israel is questioning their reports and calling HRW biased against Israel. Which it is. Human Rights Watch on Friday accused the Israeli government of waging a propaganda war after … Continue reading
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A tale of two headlines
The AP anti-Israel bias, exhibit 4,678: First, the AP report on the HRW report on Hamas war crimes: Rights group: Hamas may have committed war crimes Next, the AP report on the current HRW accusation that Israely committed war crimes: … Continue reading
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Cynical misery
Often those of us who support Israel claim that the Palestinian issue is one that was created and maintained by the Arab world in order to have a weapon against Israel. A few weeks ago, Daniel Pipes linked to a … Continue reading
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Where “liquidate” means “living side by side peacefully”
Back on August 30, 1993 Clyde Haberman of the New York Times reported the significant change that the PLO was going to undergo: Another important step is that the P.L.O. is to renounce terrorism, according to some officials. But they … Continue reading
Monday SNB
Funny how the AP keeps on missing these tidbits: Fatah has approved adding “the right to resist occupation in all its forms” to its new platform. (This is on top of insising that all of Jerusalem is theirs.) They further … Continue reading
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Fatah to Israel: All your Jerusalem are belong to us
If anyone had any doubt that the Palestinian Authority has never given up on “reclaiming” all of “Palestine,” this current Fatah assembly declaration should shine a little light into their true intent towards Israel. The sixth Fatah General Assembly decreed … Continue reading
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Huzzahs for Hussam
Reading Isabel Kershner’s Fatah postpones elections but Extends Conference, I wonder if I’m missing anything. Kershner informs us that the younger members of Fatah want a greater say in its governance. Are they more moderate? She doesn’t tell us. But … Continue reading
Friday SNB
(That’s Snark News Briefs, to those of you who haven’t been paying attention.) Fatah blames Israel for Arafat’s AIDS: Not really. Fatah refuses to even consider the idea that their dead (and unmourned) leader did not die because of Israeli … Continue reading
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Wednesday SNB
Human rights, shmuman rights: The U.K. is perfectly fine with backing an economic pact between Syria and the EU in spite of its “concerns” about Syria’s human rights violations. Because after all, the almighty Euro is more important than the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israeli Double Standard Time, Syria, Television, The One, World Tagged Bill Clinton, Israel, North Korea, Paul Abdul, Syria 1 Comment
After 20 long years they let them out of the home
In the NYT Isabel Kershner reports in Abbas Urges ‘New Start’ at Fatah Conference : The day was filled with contradictory messages reflecting the disarray in Fatah. A huge poster on the wall bore the legend “Resistance is the legitimate … Continue reading
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Tuesday SNB
Gush Shalom: With friends like these… The background: Israel is looking into making it illegal for foreign countries to fund organizations that actively work against Israel, such as Breaking the Silence, the discredited organization that uses anonymous soldiers without any … Continue reading
Fatah con 2009
The players Barry Rubin wrote an informative roundup of the personalities who will be participating. Most importantly he observed: Of the Fatah Central Committee’s seventeen surviving members, only three can be classified as relative moderates. At least seven can be … Continue reading
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The Fatah convention: War is peace
Mahmoud Abbas, the “moderate” leader of Fatah, declared today that the Palestinians reserve the “right” to “resistance.” But of course, he mouthed enough platitudes so that the anti-Israel media can pretend that he wants peace. “Although peace is our choice, … Continue reading
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