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: Israeli Double Standard Time
Comparing condemnations
Terror attacks are apparently not an obstacle to peace. The Obama administration didn’t The State Department does not feel the need to issue a scathing condemnation of the attackers who murdered four Israeli civilians, including a pregnant woman. It’s far … Continue reading
The “cbm” maneuver
Helene Cooper contributes a perfectly predictable Early Obstacle at Start of Mideast Talks, to the discussion of peace talks in the Middle East. President Obama will begin his one-year effort to achieve Middle East peace on Wednesday, joining a long … Continue reading
Monday, briefly
And there we have it: The preconditions are back. Actually, they never left. Mahmoud Abbas says he will exit peace talks if Israel resumes “settlement” building, even on the parts of land that Abbas has already said he will swap … Continue reading
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Things you really ought to read
Tony Blair’s speech at Herzliya: I often have a conversation about the West Bank which goes like this. Someone says: Israel must lift the occupation. I reply: I agree but it has to be sure that when it does so, … Continue reading
Monday briefs
You give up the money, idiot: It’s not heroic to fight off armed robbers, it’s stupid. Especially when you’re only carrying $5. It’s stupid. And now a rabbinic student is hospitalized for his stupidity. There’s a Talmudic lesson in here … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Israel, Palestinians
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Friday, briefly
Guess the ethnicity gets even better on the updates! Now you just know he’s from Israel, and is a “religious, God-fearing man“. So once again, I’m going to perform a public service: Elias Abuelazzam (Abu al-Azzam) is NOT a Jewish … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Israel, Media Bias, Palestinians
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Name the ethnicity in the Israeli serial killer story
Have you heard about the Israeli serial killer/stabber who was apprehended this week while boarding a flight to Israel? Is he a Jew? A suspect in a string of 20 stabbings that terrorized people across three states and left five … Continue reading
Thursday news roundup
The AP notices that Palestinians have more rights in Israel than in Lebanon: It’s a profile of the Lebanese debate about whether to give Palestinians the right to work in the country where they’ve lived (in many cases) all their … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestinians
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Comfort from distorted history
A couple of articles, from differing perspectives, on how blaming Israel for the plight of the Palestinians hurts the cause of peace. In the Jerusalem Post Mudar Zahran writes: The demonization of Israel by the global media has greatly harmed … Continue reading
Flattery will get you nowhere, but keep talking
In an uncredited article, that seems largely based on Robert Mackey’s account, the New York Times once again reports: Using unusually blunt language for a British prime minister speaking about Arab-Israeli tensions, Mr. Cameron added: “Let me also be clear … Continue reading
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Beware of Turks bearing glass houses
PM David Cameron of England, yesterday, gave a speech in Turkey in which he pandered to the Islamist Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan, in which he alleged, among other things, that Gaza was a “prison camp.” As is typical of the … Continue reading
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Briefs
Cameron goes for the Islamist vote: By this statement alone, Britain’s new PM shows himself to be either an utter fool, an anti-Zionist, or a politician who panders to every audience. “The Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla was completely … Continue reading
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Tagged Gaza, Israel, UN
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Abbas’ strategy: Preconditions, preconditions, preconditions
Benjamin Netanyahu has called for direct talks with the Palestinians, with no preconditions. Israel, he says, is ready to sit down right now and discuss all of the issues. Mahmoud Abbas has said the Palestinians will not resume direct talks … Continue reading
The Eiland report: spinning it against Israel
Originally the Washington Post reported Israeli troops raid aid flotilla headed for Gaza, killing nine and the New York Times reported Deadly Israeli Raid Draws Condemnation. Both articles seem reasonably accurate in hindsight. Now Israel has released the results of … Continue reading
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