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
Iran’s blogfather arrested
Abraham Rabinovich writes: What surprised me about Hossein Derakhshan when I interviewed him in a café on Jerusalem’s Emek Refaim Street two years ago was that the self-exiled Iranian, who was arrested this month during a visit to Tehran on … Continue reading
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Hezbullah stronger than ever
It’s good to know that the UN is enforcing UNSC resolution 1701, calling for the disarmament of Hezbullah. Because otherwise, Hezbullah might be three times stronger now than it was during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war. Hizbullah has grown three times … Continue reading
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Ahmadinejad whistling past the graveyard
This one’s a laugh-out-loud example of sheer propaganda: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Iran’s economy will survive falling oil prices. Iranian state television has quoted Ahmadinejad as saying the plummeting price of oil “will not cause any remarkable problems” to … Continue reading
UN on Gaza: An “imminent” disaster years in the making
Let’s play a game. Guess when this article was written: Leading UN agencies are issuing increasingly dramatic warnings about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where Israeli forces continue their search for a captured soldier, Gilad Shalit. There have also been … Continue reading
Madly for Mahdi
The NYT reports on the extent of Hezbollah’s influence in Lebanon in Generation Faithful. There is a network of schools– some of them run by Hezbollah, others affiliated with or controlled by it — largely shielded from outsiders. There is … Continue reading
Yet another rocket hits Israel
Three more rockets hit two more areas in Israel. The rockets have been falling every day (the AP is for some reason saying “near-daily rocket attacks”), and we have yet to hear a peep out of the crowd of Israel-bashers … Continue reading
Predictable prescription from poobahs past
In today’s Washington Post Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft serve up perfectly predictable “Middle East Priorities For Jan. 21” After expressing their glee with the election of President-elect Obama, they tell us the advantage his election presents at this time: … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, palestinian politics Tagged Brent Scowcroft, Zbigniew Brzezinski 3 Comments
Unintelligent sharing
Deja Vu observed the other day: Never mind, Miliband holds a joint news conference with the Syrian FM who blames Israeli bombs for the processed uranium UN inspectors uncovered. Miliband assures reporters that Syria is a good country, a true … Continue reading
All the Hamas lies fit to print
Say, remember last year, when the news media took pictures of Hamas members sitting around a table in the dark, without telling us that the picture was shot in the daytime, with the curtains drawn, to make it seem like … Continue reading
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Who are going to believe, AP or your own eyes?
At least now they’re a little more careful than they were two months ago. They actually bothered to empty the shelves before this picture was taken. The crisis persists. Doesn’t it? Elder of Ziyon reports the un(der)reported: It appears that … Continue reading
IAEA on Syria: There’s uranium in them there sands
Looks like the Syrians didn’t do a good enough job covering their tracks. Even the IAEA has officially come out and said they’ve found traces of uranium at the bombed site, although El Baradei is still refusing to confirm it … Continue reading
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Names will never hurt me – the double standard
Recently a number of bloggers got bent out of shape by comments made by incoming Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel’s father, “Obviously, he’ll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn’t he? What is he, an Arab? He’s not going … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Media Bias, palestinian politics Tagged Mahmoud Abbas, Rahm Emanuel, Salam Fayyad 1 Comment
The bunker mentality
I bring your attention to the following three recent news summaries from the NYT as visible through Bloglines. November 14, 2008 Deadly Gaza Border Clash Threatens Truce By By ISABEL KERSHNER on Hamas Four Hamas gunmen were killed in a … Continue reading
Hamas resumes full-scale attacks; media still taking truce
Hamas has resumed full-scale attacks on Israel, complete with wounded Israelis in Sderot, and the headline to the AP story is this: Gaza violence continues with airstrike, rockets Notice the order of events in the headline. Airstrikes come first, even … Continue reading
Palestinian PM at interfaith conference: Judaism? What’s that?
The Palestinian Prime Minister, yet another so-called moderate, managed to speak at the UN interfaith conference about how holy Jerusalem is to the world’s major religions—and utterly leave out Judaism. Jerusalem is holy to two religions – Islam and Christianity, … Continue reading
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