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
If the anti-Israel shoe fits, wear it
Ruthie Blue Leibowitz interviews Jeremy ben-Ami of J-Street. What constitutes being “anti-Israel?” Being anti-Israel means rejecting the notion of the right of the Jewish people to a state that didn’t exist before, and that its establishment was a mistake. Those … Continue reading
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Hariri suspects freed
The BBC reported yeterday that the UN’s special tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri has released four Lebanese generals it had been holding as suspects in the assassination. The UN court was set up to investigate the bomb attack … Continue reading
If we would just pressure Israel we’d have peace in the Middle East
The New York Times reports that Fatah and Hamas are engaged in reconciliation talks. Fatah insists that any unity government formed will be acceptable to the international community and satisfy the conditions of the so-called quartet of Middle East peace … Continue reading
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Tagged Death penalty
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Chummy with Chavez
Madeleine Albright’s former poodle and Mr. Christiane Amanpour, James Rubin, has published an essay Why Obama Shook Chávez’s Hand. Despite the results of November’s election, Mr. Obama’s critics are judging him on the basis of the old Bush calculus. Whether … Continue reading
What’s a Jewish state got to with it?
Isabel Kershner of the NY Times reports that “moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas refuses to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed a demand by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to recognize … Continue reading
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There is no Sadat
Stop him before he writes again. Roger Cohen’s latest column, Clinton’s Middle East Pirouette, starts off badly: The sparring between the United States and Israel has begun, and that’s a good thing. Israel’s interests are not served by an uncritical … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Jew Cooties
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Continental divide?
Barry Rubin observes in regard to Israeli relations with Europe: Probably they are better than at any time since the early 1980s. With the end of the Palestinian intifada in 2003, Israelis withdrawal from and the Hamas takeover of the … Continue reading
3 arrested in Lebanon for spying for Israel
The New York Times reports that Lebanese authorities have arrested three men for spying for Israel. The arrests on Saturday were based on information from Adeeb al-Alam, a retired Lebanese general who was arrested this month and charged with spying … Continue reading
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Corruption: it’s a feature not a bug
In Gaza power plant surprising profit generator, Dion Nissenbaum notes that a recent report shows that foreign aid indirectly flows to Mahmoud Abbas’s sons. The power plant story follows another investigative piece by Entous that examined lucrative US contracts given … Continue reading
Driving the wedge
How clear the conflict between the Netanyahu government and the Obama administration are, is unclear at this point. That doesn’t stop Glenn Kessler from emphasizing the differences. Aides to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said this week that the Israeli … Continue reading
Heroes? Yes.
According to Michael Goldfarb, that’s what we ought to call the interrogators who got timely information that saved lives. (via memeorandum) That’s what we ought to call the men and women who interrogated the worst of the worst. For those … Continue reading
Bridging and expanding the gap
I observed yesterday that conflicts between the new governments in the United States and Israel are being magnified by those who seem to have a stake in ensuring friction between the two. Shmuel Rosner debunks another effort to magnify differences … Continue reading
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Face value
Yesterday, I wrote about Elder of Ziyon’s efforts to count the Arab casualties from Cast Lead accurately. Look at today’s report in the New York Times about the IDF’s investigation of its behavior during Cast Lead. Gaza health officials said … Continue reading