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: Terrorism
Terrorist, policeman, …
Aside from the NYT shamelessly rewriting this story, this paragraph really bothers me. Israeli officials said that anyone linked to the Hamas security structure or government was fair game because Hamas was a terrorist group that sought Israel’s destruction. But … Continue reading
Evil Zionists send blood, fuel, medical supplies to Gaza
What other nation has ever supplied the other side with medical supplies and fuel during wartime? Meanwhile, Barak authorized the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza in an unprecedented scope. Some 100 trucks carrying blood units, provisions, medicines and 10 … Continue reading
Hamas arms and weapons severely degraded
The IDF says that Hamas’ response is light for two reasons: Either they’re holding back, or their response capability has been severely degraded by the attacks. It’s possible they’re waiting for the ground attack to begin, but—well, see for yourself. … Continue reading
Hamas is fighting the last war, redux
I have written more than once that Hamas took the lessons of the Lebanon war to mean that if they did everything that Hezbullah did, they could achieve a “victory” over the IDF the way Hezbullah did. (Realize that our … Continue reading
Gaza war intensifies; IDF targets tunnels
Israel is casting that dreidel very, very carefully. IAF jets struck tunnels connecting the Palestinian and Egyptian sides of Rafah, a Gaza Strip border town which has become a main entry point into Gaza of weapons, dynamite and other smuggled … Continue reading
More liveblogging
Jameel is liveblogging as well. I got this video of an IDF attack on an underground missile launcher from him.
Morning Gaza wrap-up
The IAF targeted more Hamas installations, including one that housed the jail where Hamas was keeping Fatah prisoners. Darn. Okay, I didn’t mean that. Two terrorist organizations with one blow? Excellent. Fatah’s hands are bloody, too. Those were not innocent … Continue reading
Gaza casualty rate: 94% terrorists, so far
The bad news is that Ismail Haniyeh is still alive. The good news is that it seems the casualty rate was about 94% terrorists. Israeli warplanes rained more than 100 tons of bombs on security sites in Hamas-ruled Gaza Saturday … Continue reading
The mainstream media: Hamas press flacks
You won’t find this quote by Ehud Olmert outside the Israeli media, at least, not at the time of this post. I can’t find it. “Israel has done all it could to preserve the ceasefire with Hamas, but our desire … Continue reading
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How Israel fooled Hamas
A lovely story to take with me to the gym: Maneuvering the enemy: The Israel government reportedly employed several measures in order to lead Hamas into a false sense of security and ensure the operation against the Islamist group would … Continue reading
Gaza op: Analysis
The rules of the game have changed. The Israeli air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, hugely dramatic in their scope, nonetheless mark only the beginning of an ongoing, potentially lengthy operation aimed at restoring calm to the … Continue reading
Gaza Op: Surprise attack catches Hamas with its goons down
Went back to bed this morning with a stomach-ache, woke up to the news: The first Gaza operation has come and gone. And Hamas was completely surprised. A Hamas source in Gaza confirmed Saturday that the Israeli Air Force attack … Continue reading
Flying pig alert: UNSG chastens Hamas
The UN SecGen actually issued a statement calling for Hamas to stop rocketing Israel without calling for the reduction of violence “on both sides.” He does, of course, condemn the Gaza blockade. The Secretary-General is gravely concerned about the situation … Continue reading
The other side of “No one was killed in the rocket barrage”
The miracle of Hanukkah, 2008: Three children were saved from terrorist rocket fire. The lives of three children – aged four, five and eight – were saved Wednesday, as a Grad missile fired from northern Gaza hit their home, moments … Continue reading
More Mideast euphemisms
There’s another entry in the annals of euphemism in Middle East reporting. The word is “study” as in: Hamas ready to study new Gaza cease-fire with Israel A headline seen in many online news stories yesterday. Here’s what it really … Continue reading