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…
Category Archives: Israel Derangement Syndrome
Hating Israel more than loving Palestinians
Today Nicholas Kristof pleads for Tough love for Israel? Before he gets to his conclusion though he writes: Granted, not everybody sees things this way, and discussions of the Middle East usually involve each side offering up its strongest arguments … Continue reading
The complain, cajole, concede cycle
The NYT makes this sound like a bad thing: Mideast Sees More of the Same if Obama Is Elected “What we know is American presidents all support Israel,” said Muhammad Ibrahim, 23, a university student who works part time selling … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged peace process
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Horribly wrong part II
Dion Nissenbaum, McClatchy’s Israel correspondent, lets all know where his sympathies lie, with Samir Kuntar. As Israel was getting ready to free Kuntar last Wednesday, the Lebanese militant told guards that he didn’t want to walk to freedom in a … Continue reading
Just one more iddy biddy concession and they’ll love you
Before Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in 2006, Thomas Friedman wrote a column, The Morning After the Morning After, in which he argued that the population of Lebanon would eventually turn on Hezbollah when it realized the costs … Continue reading
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Low and lower
The recent do on the border with Lebanon couldn’t have passed without the inimitable Fisk checking in with a totally idiotic opus in the captive Indy. Since fisking Fisk is too nineties (simply put – you do not fisk anyone … Continue reading
Tony’s tolerance of terror has limits
The other day the Palestinians condemned two men to death for supposedly “collaborating” with Israel to target terrorists. These men weren’t convicted by Hamas, but by the “moderate” Fatah faction that is in charge of Jenin. Reacting to this story, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Terrorism, Tony Blair
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My simple litmus test
Richard Gold of Engage made an amazing discovery when, as a youngster, he thought he is joining an anti-fascist demo, and it appeared that in fact the fascist side is represented (oh the horror of it!) by the socialist British … Continue reading
As the WRMEA turns
When I first read about the plight of Gaza reporter Mohammed Omer, I was suspicious. Omer claimed that when he returned to Gaza (via Jordan) after receiving a “journalism” award he was mistreated and beaten by Israel guards. The truth … Continue reading
Israel: cancelled
Those moderate voices from Iran continue to reverberate throughout the world: Iranian calls for the destruction of Israel are almost routine these days. But for a former official of the Islamic Republic to call for the destruction of the Jewish … Continue reading
Reflexively telling
Yesterday, Boker Tov Boulder aptly observed that following a terror attack: … there’s the attack by the media that inevitably follows. Then there’s the aftermath, in which we can see the results of the first two, usually along the lines … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Terrorism
Tagged Jerusalem, Terror
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Deborah Fink strikes again, or how not to piss on other people’s parade
Never forget that in order to piss on someone (or someone’s parade) you have to be a person of some, how to say it gently, stature. Otherwise the only thing you produce is a small puddle. Yeah, and calling British … Continue reading
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Professor Arnd Krüger and his pet conspiracy
Choose an event in the past. The event should be famous enough for any news related to it to reverberate far and wide. The event should be remote enough to make checking the “news” difficult to impossible. Now start manufacturing … Continue reading
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What color is the sky on J-Street?
J-Street has a wonderful new feature that allows you to send a letter to the editor of a local paper to support J-Street’s views. I decided to take advantage. Amy Teibel’s report on the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has … Continue reading