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
Do-over
I’d like to bring up an observation made by Treppenwitz again: But when most people today say “the ’67 borders” in relation to territorial compromise, they are talking about the borders that existed on June 5th, 1967… which were, in … Continue reading
Out of context
What’s missing from this AP piece on the Lebanese president insisting he won’t ask Hizballah to disarm? Lebanon’s president says the government cannot ask Hezbollah to give up its weapons at a time of heightened tension with Israel. A U.N. … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Lebanon
Tagged Israel, Lebanon, Media Bias, United Nations
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Concentrating on the wrong nuclear program
There are four nuclear nations that are not signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. One of them is Israel. The other three are Pakistan, India, and North Korea. Of those three, North Korea has threatened its neighbors and enemies with nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, United Nations, World
Tagged Israel, United Nations
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The key to “Minority Report”
Quite a few bloggers have commented on Benjamin Birnbaum’s “Minority Report” – an account of Robert Bernstein’s break from HRW – in the New Republic. There were some ironies. According to Birnbaum, Marc Garlasco was one of the HRW staffers … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged HRW
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Arabs allow indirect talks
In Arabs Back Indirect Talks Between Palestinians – NYTimes.com, Michael Slackman reports: Arab ministers gathered late Saturday at the offices of the Arab League here at the request of the Palestinian leadership, which sought regional support before agreeing, again, to … Continue reading
The peace process is about to continue … no it isn’t … arrgh!
What’s the current state of Middle East negotiations? According to the New York Times … they’re back on track … maybe The American envoy to the Middle East, George J. Mitchell, planned to meet on Friday with Israeli and Palestinian … Continue reading
The miller’s (fractured fairy) tale
In a much commented on article, The False Religion of Mideast Peace: And Why I’m No Longer a Believer by Aaron David Miller in Foreign Policy , Miller writes: “I remember attending Rabin’s funeral in 1995 in Jerusalem and trying … Continue reading
Actually I think that Israel hears the Palestinians loud and clear
In one of those “I’m so sophisticated because I can see through all the pettiness” articles, last week Ethan Bronner wrote about how the Mideast Land Conflict Now Includes Street Signs. The article deals with the Palestinians naming various streets … Continue reading
Everyone knows, except when they don’t
When discussing the Middle East, “Everyone knows” what it will take to make peace. Melanie Philips (h/t JoshuaPundit) mocks with this facile assumption. It is blindingly obvious what, to the Obama administration, ‘everyone knows’ . Everyone knows that everything the … Continue reading
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Tagged Melanie Philips
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Blaming Bibi
This week’s Baltimore Jewish Times featured an article (previously mentioned here) U.S.-Israeli Ties: What’s Really Happening? by Dr. Robert O. Freedman. Over the course of the article Dr. Freedman covers much important territory; unfortunately he also lets his prejudices get … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
Tagged PM Netanyahu, President Obama
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He’s just not that into you … Israel
At the same time that the Obama administration decided to make a city planning decision into an international incident, the Palestinian Authority was preparing to honor a vicious murdereress. Palestinian Media Watch has been exposing the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing policy … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
Tagged Hamas, Hizballah, Israel
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Wednesday briefs
Words that bite: So you think Obama and his aides will call out Iran for this? Netanyahu “insults” the Obama administration by breathing while a bureaucratic announcement of 1,600 new apartments in Jerusalem goes out. Iran actually insults Obama. “Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
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The twisted logic of the peace process
The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran an article How the next Middle East War could start, by Ronen Bergman. Unfortunately the article is mostly behind the Journal’s pay wall. A quick summary of the article is that all … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, palestinian politics
Tagged peace process
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