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
Halvorsen’s record
A number of outlets have reported that Norway’s pension fund divested its shares of the Israeli technology firm, Elbit. It’s true,as Yaacov Lozowick points out that Norway had divested from a lot of companies ( e.g. Boeing for helping build … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Kristin Halvorsten
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Doo it again
Predictably the UN places the onus on Israel Israel has allowed in some material for repairs of water and sewage systems, but aid officials say it’s not nearly enough to fix the problem. The blockade has halted repairs of Gaza’s … Continue reading
Joke / no joke
I remember a joke from my youth. It probably goes back about 40 years. Two Arabs planned to assassinate Moshe Dayan. They started tracking his movements and discovered that he ate lunch at the same cafe every day at 12:30. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Israel
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Bostrom for a Pulitzer
Apparently the reason that the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet decided to publish its false story about the IDF stealing the organs of Palestinians is because the paper’s editor wanted to verify the authenticity of the story. In the United States the … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn
Tagged Donald Bostrom
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Boycott backlash
A week and a half ago, Israeli professor Neve Gordon wrote an op-ed in the LA Times calling for a boycott of Israel. So if the two-state solution is the way to stop the apartheid state, then how does one … Continue reading
The right to a Jewish state
Recently, Prof. Shlomo Avineiri wrote about the failure of the Palestinians to accept the right of Israel to exist. “Shamir” in this case, is Prof. Shimon Shamir, who argued that Palestinian acceptance of Israel’s right to exist is irrelevant. Benjamin … Continue reading
The son also op-eds
Well following in his father’s illustrious path, Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi has taken the pen to produce an op-ed for the New York Times, so he could, of course, argue that Megrahi is innocent. Mr. Megrahi was released for the right … Continue reading
Hevron remembered
Jerold Auerbach writes today about the Chevron massacre: The Jewish community of Hebron—some 700 people—recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of their return. This month they commemorate the 80th anniversary of Tarpat. All the other ancient peoples mentioned in the Bible … Continue reading
The libel tourist is dead
Khalid bin Mahfouz is dead. The New York Times tells us: Khalid bin Mahfouz, a billionaire Saudi banker who paid $225 million to settle charges of bank fraud in 1993 and later won a string of lawsuits in Britain against … Continue reading
No Jews, No beer
Please see an important note at the end. A few days ago the Washington Post concluded in Self-Muzzled at Yale: In effect, Yale University Press is allowing violent extremists to set the terms of free speech. As an academic press … Continue reading
Two sides to a blood libel
The New York Times seems to feel that there are two sides to the charges in a Swedish newspaper that the IDF kills Palestinians and takes their organs for transplants. Read Accusation of Organ Theft Stokes Ire in Israel. “Stokes … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
Tagged Blood Libel
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Kindness to the cruel
FBI Director Robert Mueller: “Over the years I have been a prosecutor, and recently as the director of the FBI, I have made it a practice not to comment on the actions of other prosecutors, since only the prosecutor handling … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Terrorism
Tagged Megrahi, Vahidi
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When the moderate met the mass killer
A few months ago, a Washington Post editorial commented on the embrace of the Sudan’s leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir. In particular the editorial observed: “We must also take a decisive stance of solidarity alongside fraternal Sudan and President Omar al-Bashir,” … Continue reading
Posted in palestinian politics
Tagged Omar al-Bashir
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Hopeful and defiant
Even as the Washington Post reports that President Obama, meeting with Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, is optimistic about peace in the Middle East, it runs a parallel story Netanyahu’s Defiance of U.S. Resonates at Home: For five months, Israeli Prime … Continue reading
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