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: palestinian politics
PA Prime Minister: We can’t do squat about Gaza
On the heels of receiving $150 million from U.S. taxpayers, for the purpose of strengthening the PA to prevent terrorism, the Palestinian Prime Minister tells a Kuwaiti newspaper that the PA can’t do anything to stop rockets, terrorisim, or Hamas. … Continue reading
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Olmert caves
Gee, no way this can go wrong: Under the plan that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced, Israel will remove about 50 roadblocks and upgrade checkpoints to speed up the movement of Palestinians through the West Bank. The Israelis also … Continue reading
Humoring the extremes
A month ago JoshuaPundit questioned the wisdom of President Bush naming an envoy to the Organization of Islamic Conference. After noting some previous antics of the OIC, JoshuaPundit writes: This is the racist, anti-American group our president legitimized and is … Continue reading
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When will the cease-lull start?
I was kind of put off by this headline in the NYT: Rocket endangers Palestinian-Israeli respite. The rocket doesn’t endanger the respite. It ends the respite. And it’s not the rocket, it’s the people who fired the rocket. Of course … Continue reading
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Humiliation vs. authorizing terror
Saab Erekat, one of the Palestinian spokesliars the media likes to quote a lot, is up in arms about how Olmert’s authorizing more construction in the West Bank is “humiliating” Mahmoud Abbas. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said he had … Continue reading
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Abbas’ hollow condemnations
Here is the much-vaunted Mahmoud Abbas condemnation of rocket fire into civilian areas of Israel by terrorists in Gaza: “These rockets that are being fired at Israel must stop. It’s pointless,” he said at a news conference with Austrian Foreign … Continue reading
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The difference between us and them
What’s wrong with Palestinian culture: Yellow Fatah flags flew outside the home of one of the attackers, 22-year-old Luay Laghwani, and Al Aqsa gunmen fired in the air in tribute to him. His sobbing mother, Ibtissam, held a picture of … Continue reading
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Un-habashed support for terror
George Habash is dead.The New York Times had this interesting tidbit. A number of accounts say Mr. Habash was born in 1925 in Lydda, Palestine, which is now Lod, Israel. The son of a well-to-d0 grain merchant who was Greek … Continue reading
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On the care and feeding of autocrats
Shibley Telhami, who has made a career of interpreting polling data from totalitarian regimes, tells us today that “It’s not about Iran.”(If your leader, through the media and other apparatuses of state, makes clear that the Israeli “occupation” of Palestine … Continue reading
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George W. Bush’s Clintonian diplomacy
He hasn’t invited Yasser Arafat to the White House, but you could pretty much substitute any major Clinton speech on Israel and the Palestinians for the speech W. gave yesterday. In addition to these three tracks, both sides are getting … Continue reading
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President Bush goes to Israel
President George W. Bush is finally paying a visit to Israel, after not doing so for seven years. He’s been all over the Middle East during his presidency. So yes, it’s a snub. But at least he’s not going to … Continue reading
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New year, same old terrorists, same old media spin
Fatah and Hamas are killing each other in Gaza again. And of course, the AP waters down the headline. Rival Palestinian Factions Clash It’s like they’re reporting on the Jets-Sharks feud. It’s all fun and games until the knives come … Continue reading
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Israel allows a gift to Hamas: Armored vehicles
The political leadership, against the advice of the IDF, is allowing the Palestinians to receive 50 armored vehicles from Russia for use in the West Bank. The final barrier—mounting machine guns on them—has been dropped by the Palestinians. No doubt … Continue reading
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An alien nationalism?
via memeorandum Martin Peretz (or perhaps Josh Patashnik) writes in review of a book “Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948” What we learn about the three decades after General Allenby conquered Jerusalem from the Ottomans was that the … Continue reading
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NYT vs. Daniel Pipes Round Robin
Down Payment on Mideast Peace The political and territorial challenges facing Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are formidable and familiar. The economic obstacles to the creation of a viable Palestinian state are also formidable, but easier to make a dent … Continue reading
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