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: Media Bias
“Punishing” al Jazeera
Dion Nissenbaum’s in high dudgeon because Israel is “punishing” Al Jazeera. How’s that? The Israeli government stopped helping Al Jazeera after the station aired a birthday celebration for Samir Kuntar, the Lebanese killer freed last month in a prisoner exchange … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Dion Nissenbaum
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The dwindling continues
Back in January 2007, Media Backspin observed that the number of news organizations with Israel (or Middle East) desks was decreasing, a trend that was likely to accelerate (and did). He quoted an analyst who wrote: Many news organizations rushed … Continue reading
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The NGO problem
Yesterday I blogged about a Physicians for Human Rights report that accused Israel of pressuring Palestinians seeking medical treatment in Israel into becoming informers. Honest Reporting provided a link to Gerald Steinberg who questions the claims: Similarly, in this publication, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged NGO's
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Egyptians kill another Sudanese; world yawns
How many Sudanese have been killed by Egyptian border guards? Fifty? One hundred? Two hundred? I have no idea. It’s a body count that the AP isn’t interested in keeping. The wire services barely acknowledge that not a week goes … Continue reading
How dare Israeli hospitals treat Palestinians!
Israel opens its borders to allow thousands of Palestinians access to medical care in its hospitals. The only time you hear about this is when there’s a complaint. The Washington Post’s Linda Gradstein is all too anxious to report Gazans’ … Continue reading
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Diggin’ the digging
Ethan Bronner reports Museum Offers Gray Gaza a View of Its Dazzling Past It may sound like the indulgence of a well-fed man fleeing the misery around him. But when Jawdat N. Khoudary opens the first museum of archaeology in … Continue reading
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
“horribly wrong”
From the NYT: Hero’s Welcome Expected in Lebanon for Captive of IsraelPerhaps Israel’s most reviled prisoner, Samir Kuntar, will return to a hero’s welcome when he crosses into Lebanon this week, 29 years after he left its shores in a … 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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Still unanswered
Newsbusters takes the NYT to task for ignoring the result of the Enderlein-Karsenty case. (Newsbusters acknowledged that the result was covered half-heartedly in the NYT’s blog.) Newsbuster’s author Warner Todd Huston asks: So what gives, New York Times? Why the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media, Media Bias
Tagged Charles Enderlin, Mohammed al-dura, New York Times, Philipe Karsenty
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Ask Mark Regev
Got a question for Israel’s foreign media adviser? Go here and ask it. Mine’s already been asked. I would word it a bit differently: Why the hell can’t Israel manage her own PR better? The Arabs have been winning the … Continue reading
Daily truce violations; daily inaction from Israel
Kassams continue to rain down on Israel daily. Closing the crossings just isn’t enough. What is Barak waiting for? Two Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza towards Israel on Thursday afternoon, one of them landed near a kibbutz in … Continue reading
Still the Samir?
Given the sympathy that the Washington Post once showed for Samir Kuntar in a news story, the editorial An Unwelcome Hero was welcome, if flawed. If anyone ever deserved the title “baby-killer,” it is Samir Kuntar. Yet his freedom has … Continue reading
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Booting Hersh
Last week, Cheat Seeking Missiles went after Seymour Hersh for an recently written “expose” in the New Yorker. What troubled me is that CSM took everything Hersh wrote at face value. Hersh cherry picks some stuff, confuses some stuff, makes … Continue reading