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
Fulbrights and qassams
Israel’s DM Ehud Barak announced that the siege of Gaza is working: Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Monday said that Israel has identified signs of distress coming from Hamas. According to the defense minister, some 70 Hamas fighters have been … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged Fulbright, Qassams, State Department
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Leveraging – reloaded
Earlier I wrote about Thomas Friedman’s column, It’s all about leverage. In retrospect the construction of that post was awkward and needs a real makeover. Friedman, is capable of astute observations. In his op-ed today he argue that Iran, Syria … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Lebanon, Media Bias
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Jihad on jihad
An op-ed in the NYT today asks What Do You Call a Terror(Jihad)ist? The word “jihad†means to “strive†or “struggle,†and in the Muslim world it has traditionally been used in tandem with “fi sabilillah†(“in the path of … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias
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Fullbright followup
The other day it was reported that the State Department was canceling 7 Fulbright scholarship to students in Gaza. Given the way the story was reported, it looked like a pretty obvious attempt of the State Department to embarrass Israel … Continue reading
Leveraging
In a hypothetical column written in 1999, Thomas Friedman described how PM Binyamin Netanyahu would be re-elected. Now that Israeli troops are out of Lebanon, noted Mr. Netanyahu, everything is reversed: Politically, if the Iranian-directed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas try to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias
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Hoyt’s blindness again
Clark Hoyt still hasn’t addressed my question about how the NYT reports news, however he’s dug up a several weeks old column to question whether the Times was correct in running a specific opinion piece. At issue is an op-ed … Continue reading
Ghost of a chance of peace
Some twenty years ago a Palestinian soda company started hiring students from the nearby Yeshiva in Beit El to certify that the soda was Kosher for sale in Israel. It seemed like a good idea at the time but then … Continue reading
Full of fulbright
Four and a half years ago three Americans were killed as they crossed into Gaza: From the wreckage, it appeared that the explosion had occurred directly beneath the driver’s seat of the second of three American vehicles, ripping off the … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Fulbright scholarships, Gaza, Israel
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Derfner digs deep
My contempt for Larry Derfner goes back a ways. In the 90’s he was one of the Israel correspondents for every Jewish American weekly. As an extreme leftist, he used that platform to present Israel in the worst possible light. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged al-Dura, Karsenty, Landes, Larry Derfner
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R-i-i-i-i-i-i-p
In order to show the progress that the Palestinian police are making, news services often provide pictures of them in amusing physical poses and give a caption that they’re undergoing training. There were a couple of pictures yesterday, that defied … Continue reading
The pariah
From the Times of London (h/t Backspin) Some Israelis object to this program. They remember that Saddam Hussein fired Scuds into Israel during first Gulf War and find it offensive that Iraqis now seek their help but had no objection … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Biship Tutu, Hamas, Israel, Norman Finkelstein, Save a child's heart
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How significant was the al-Dura verdict?
Richard Landes comments on the court’s decision in the Karsenty/Enderlin case. Generally speaking, I think this is a devastating decision. The judges go out of their way to criticize everyone involved on the side of France2 (including some backhanded swipes … Continue reading
A kick against progress in Iraq
From the NYT. Soccer’s world governing body suspended Iraq’s national soccer association on Monday, leaving the players on Iraq’s national team who had united a divided country fearing that they will not be able to participate in the 2010 World … Continue reading
Out of school
The NYT citing a Reuters report doesn’t seem to feel that this is any big deal. Former President Jimmy Carter said Israel held at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a current or former American president had publicly acknowledged … Continue reading
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Thinking of the troops
In his column today, William Kristol writes in Remember to Remember: One retired general I know urges civilians to go out of their way to say thank you to servicemen and women they happen to encounter. At first I thought … Continue reading