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: Gaza
The media’s high dudgeon over Gaza ban
In his post about the world’s lust for Jewish moral failure, Jeffrey Goldberg writes: One story the media isn’t telling, because it’s impossible to get this story in these circumstances (especially because Israel stupidly won’t allow foreign reporters into Gaza) … Continue reading
AP confirms Hamas terrorists fired from UN school
The AP buried the information after the fifth paragraph, where it would not get picked up by tomorrow’s World News sections in your local newspaper, but they have independent confirmation that Hamas terrorists were firing from the UN school that … Continue reading
From despised to despised
Dmitry Sidorov is a Russian (and Jewish, although the name is highly unlikely) journalist. With kind assistance of the Google translator and some nudges here and there, I have translated (meanwhile without permission) his article that appears here in Russian. … Continue reading
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France 2 – oops again
In another time and another place this would have caused me a few whoops of laughter: French public television network France 2 on Tuesday revealed they had aired photographs that allegedly showed destruction caused by the Israel Air Force during … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Media Bias
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Want a good war crime?
When you want to start carping about Israel’s war crimes, when your senses of justice, humanity and freedom are jarred by another picture of bleeding child or human entrails flung far and wide, of school building gutted by a tank … Continue reading
World trying to push Israel into an early cease fire
Once again, the world wants Israel to stop before the job is done. Egypt said on Tuesday it was proposing an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, to be followed by talks on long-term arrangements including an … Continue reading
Hamas using children as human shield
Take a look at this video. Now take a look at this one, which shows terrorists shooting mortars from a UN school in Gaza. The terrorists were shooting from the school that got hit today. It’s terrible that civilians were … Continue reading
Barbarism in the Congo, ignored
Why are unintentional Palestinian civilian deaths so much more important than actual massacres that took place in Africa? Attackers wielding machetes hacked to death dozens of people at a church in remote eastern Congo, witnesses said Monday, and the Ugandan … Continue reading
The objective media—not
Once again, CNN shows its bias. Death toll rises as Israel encircles Gaza City That’s two headlines in a row that start with “Death toll rises.” If you’re coming here from the CNN link, take a look around to get … Continue reading
Where suicide bombers come from
An amazing article by Nic Robertson (CNN). Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence Finally we know where suicide bombers come from. The article describes the trauma that children of Gaza are undergoing these days. The children have seen terrible … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Terrorism
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Special edition of Shire Network News
The special edition of SNN is up. Listen, and forward the link to a friend. Remember, you don’t need an iPod. All you need is a computer that has a media program, like Windows Media, to listen. And go vote … Continue reading
Firming up the narrative: Israel can’t win
The news media are falling all over themselves to conclude that no matter what happens, Israel loses. When I woke up to NPR this morning, the first thing I heard was (paraphrasing) “Israeli forces haven’t stopped the rocket fire into … Continue reading
A priceless headline
This headline appeared on Ynet*: Hamas threatens attacks on Israeli civilians It comes from our long-time friend Mahmoud al-Zahar, who probably missed the sublime irony of that threat. What else Hamas was busy with for the last ten years? (*) … Continue reading
Number of killed and wounded in Israel doubled under cease fire
Six months of cease fire did nothing. No, wait. Apparently, it encouraged more attacks. Shootings, stabbings, rocket and missile fire, and a bulldozer attack by Palestinian and Arab terrorists killed 36 Israelis and tourists in Israel in 2008, compared to … Continue reading
Gaza war – a random selection
Several not necessarily related items that caught my attention since yesterday. If you want a blow by blow war journal, you better look elsewhere – some people do it much better. Israel Vice premier, Industry, Trade and Labor minister refrain … Continue reading