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…
Author Archives: Soccerdad
The J-Street camouflage
When I originally posted about J-Street’s invitation to Israeli Ambassador, Michael Oren, I was against his speaking at the J-Street conference, but was open to the idea of Oren giving a talk explaining why J-Street despite its loud protests otherwise, … Continue reading
The descent of “human rights” into parody
There’s something perverse about a group of tyrants – who deny their own people the right to vote – claiming the mantle of moral legitimacy on account of achieving a majority vote. But that’s what happened today at the UN … Continue reading
Why Abbas is failing
The Washington Post describes how Mahmoud Abbas has lost popularity. First there was the failure to achieve a cost free advantage. Obama named Mitchell as his peace envoy just one day after taking office in an effort to demonstrate to … Continue reading
An invitation to decline
J-Street in an effort to increase its relevance, has been lining up well known speakers for its upcoming convention. Such efforts to delegitimize the organization appear to have failed, with 160 congressional lawmakers endorsing its conference. The slate of scheduled … Continue reading
Another 1701 violation
Israel Matzav noted that there was an explosion in southern Lebanon and covered it from a Lebanese news source. (via memeorandum) Ha’aretz reports that Israel is going to the UN. Israel has demanded that the United Nations investigate the explosion … Continue reading
No sympathy for Goldstone – in Sderot
In Moshav Yated Journal, Isabel Kershner of the New York Times reports: According to the Israeli military, some 3,300 rockets and mortar shells were launched from Gaza at southern Israel in 2008, compared with fewer than 300 since the end … Continue reading
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Portraying Hamas
Barry Rubin writes about a recent Washington Post article about Hamas: Here’s a good article on Hamas and how it’s a barrier to peace, with no illusions about the group moderating or being misunderstand. The article also points out how … Continue reading
Why did Israel jail the pregnant woman?
The media likes to boast that they are the “first rough draft of history.” Part of that claim is that they are disinterested parties just reporting the facts as they are. Rafael Broch of Just Journalism had an excellent op-ed … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time
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Goldstone leaves many stones unturned
Yaacov Lozowick watched Christiane Amanpour’s interview of Judge Goldstone. (video available) He observed: The second is his comparison of the Israeli judicial system and that of the Hamas: Israel’s is secretive and not reliable. Hamas, on the other hand, has … Continue reading
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“Can this trash”
The New York Times has a completely unremarkable account of Tuesday’s proceedings. Apparently neither Dr. Siderer’s testimony nor Cuba’s plea for “freedom of expression” were noteworthy to the Times reporter. Interestingly neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post … Continue reading
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Tagged United Nations
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Goldstone impeaches self
Stephanie Guttman noted who Judge Goldstone listened to. I wrote the other day about the ludicrously biased Goldstone Report issued by the UN’s Human Rights Council, which accuses Israel of war crimes in last winter’s war with Hamas in the … Continue reading
The wrong accounting
In an affront to Jews worldwide, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed essay by Rabbi Brant Rosen, before Yom Kippur, “A call to moral accounting.” Rosen uses the Hebrew term “cheshbon hanefesh” to give a religious patina to his blatantly … Continue reading
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Goldstone’s double standard’s double standard
Ehud Barak in an excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal recalls: While such logic eluded Mr. Goldstone and his team, it was crystal clear to the thousands of Israeli children living in southern Israel who had to study, play, … Continue reading
The Jews did it
A few weeks ago the Washington Post reported on the intrigue behind the nomination of Farouk Hosni to head UNESCO. Over his career, Hosni has accumulated a long record of opposing exchanges with Israel, repeatedly saying normalization must await resolution … Continue reading
2 excellent responses to Goldstone
The Wall Street Journal – The U.N.’s Anti-Antiterror Report After a brilliant opening analogy and laying out the sordid histories of the UN’s Human Rights Council and the Goldstone Commission – as well as some of the commission’s blind spots … Continue reading