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
Cohen’s rectification
Two years ago during Israel’s war against Hezbollah, Richard Cohen wrote one of the most offensively stupid op-eds imaginable. He wrote that Israel was a mistake. I and others criticized his ahistorical vision. Today, Cohen has an op-ed that is … Continue reading
In Israel’s defense
William Kristol in “Why Israel Fights,” may be excessively optimistic. However he makes a point that seems lost on most analysts of the current war against Hamas. And, of course, not all military efforts against terror fail. Recall Israel’s incursion … Continue reading
Status quo ante 1967
John Bolton argues that the two-state solution is dead for now. Let’s start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn. Hamas … Continue reading
Saving Hamas by diplomacy
Shortly after Hamas won the PA elections, nearly three years ago, the Washington Post ran an editorial, Hamas’s Choice. The editors of the Post wrote: Many Palestinians who voted for Hamas don’t support the Islamists’ fundamentalist agenda: Polls show that … Continue reading
Chipsy tunnels
Tne NYT’s the Lede had an interesting feature on Israel’s attacks on Gazan smuggling tunnels. One man interviewed by Mr. Eranger claims that the Israeli military seems to know the difference between the two kinds of tunnels: Muhammad al-Zarb said … Continue reading
Overvaluing the street
Anthony Shadid wrote Attacks Further Split Arab Rulers, People for the Washington Post. In it he concludes: The disconnect between policy and sentiment has become a feature of Arab politics, especially in recent years, as U.S. influence has dominated a … Continue reading
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Time Rayyans out
In his dispatch Senior Hamas leader killed, Griffe Witte of the Washington Post reported: Already, the air campaign has made this the bloodiest conflict in Gaza since Israel seized the territory in 1967. Precision-guided missile strikes have taken a heavy … Continue reading
The moral Disneyland revisited
Twenty years ago Charles Krauthammer wrote The Mideast as Moral Disneyland. (Washington Post, February 5, 1988). What set Krauthammer off was a complaint by Woody Allen about how Israel wasn’t so lovable as it once was. In the middle of … Continue reading
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The Post improves
After using its editorial pages to criticize and undermine Israeli claims for several days the Washington Post comes out today with two excellent defenses of Israeli actions. First is Ephraim Sneh’s Why Israel is bombing Gaza. Sneh, though a former … Continue reading
NYT: Hamas upgrades = success / Israel defends = disaster
The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal, and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both … Continue reading
About that ceasefire
While there’s been some talk of a truce between Israel and Hamas, according to today’s NYT, Israel likely to reject 48 hour cease fire plan. The idea of a 48-hour cease-fire emerged from a conversation between Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner … Continue reading
Roundups and conference calls on Gaza
Jack’s been doing roundups of news about Israel’s war against Hamas. Please check out his latest. On the PR front Israeli officials held two conference calls yesterday. One was a real conference call with bloggers such as Gateway Pundit, Jewish … Continue reading
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Reporter, heal thyself
McClatchy’s terror apologist Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dion Nissenbaum writes about Israel’s military response to the Hamas threat against its citizens by writing: The Gaza Strip has had its fair share of bad days over the years, from the spark for … Continue reading
Be very, very skeptical
One of the common memes about Israel’s war against Hamas is that Israel is strengthening Hamas by causing Palestinians to rally around the terrorist group. Of course we heard this for years. It was the reason Israel couldn’t fight Fatah … Continue reading
Did a Hamas lie find its way into a Washington Post headline?
Noah Pollak observed about a headline in the Washington Post alleging that Israel had rejected a truce with Hamas: But nothing of the sort happened; no truce has been offered by anyone involved, least of all Hamas, and there is … Continue reading