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: United Nations
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
Zabla it ain’t
There’s a concept in Jewish law of “zeh borer lo echad” or “each one chooses one.” In Hebrew, the term is shortened to its acronym, “zabla.” When two litigants have a court case requiring three judges, each litigant chooses a … Continue reading
Briefs
Cameron goes for the Islamist vote: By this statement alone, Britain’s new PM shows himself to be either an utter fool, an anti-Zionist, or a politician who panders to every audience. “The Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was completely … Continue reading
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Goldstone follow-up: The fix is in
The post-Goldstone committee, tasked with the responsibility of reporting on whether or not Israel is “following” the report’s recommendations, includes at least one appointee who is actively, vehemently, biased against Israel. And oh yeah—he’s the chairman. The chairman of the … Continue reading
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Israel briefs, snarkly
Better late than never: The AP explains the Israeli side of the Gaza flotilla incident in the 11th paragraph of this story about Turkish protests at an Israeli volleyball game in Turkey. (It’s for a European tournament.) How dangerous is … Continue reading
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Naming and shaming the U.N.
This guy is my new hero: Phillip Ruch’s monument to Srebrenica is a huge jumble of worn shoes, more than 16,000 of them, each pair representing a victim of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Seen from afar it … Continue reading
The failure of Mideast peacekeepers
The insistence on the world of setting third-party peacekeepers between Israel and the Palestinians has been resisted for decades, and with good reason. Every time Israel entrusts its well-being to others, the others fail. When Hamas took over Gaza in … Continue reading
Israel’s Gaza panel: An all-star panel, with international observers
Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the names of the members of the panel that will investigate the Gaza flotilla. There are two international observers, including a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office noted that the committee … Continue reading
UN to Israel: You asked for it
The United Nations is telling Israel that the fault for the attack on their commando force from the Turkish ship during the Free Gaza flotilla wouldn’t have happened had there been no seige of Gaza. In other words, if Israel … Continue reading
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The joke that is the UN Human Rights Council
The latest addition to the UN Human Rights Council? Libya. Libya was elected Thursday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the country was unfit to serve on the rights body. A … Continue reading
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Concentrating on the wrong nuclear program
There are four nuclear nations that are not signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. One of them is Israel. The other three are Pakistan, India, and North Korea. Of those three, North Korea has threatened its neighbors and enemies with nuclear … Continue reading
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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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