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: Hamas
Hamas: Truce and lies
There’s a 24-hour lull in the rocket fire, according to Hamas, that they’re observing at Egypt’s request. Problem is, Egypt said they never asked for one. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry denied reports that it had requested that Hamas hold its … Continue reading
The Gaza War: Finally imminent
Unless this is all talk, the IDF is finally going to go into Gaza in force. Meanwhile, Defense officials revealed that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak met privately on Thursday and decided that Israel would respond … Continue reading
Post-ceasefire post-mortem
Barry Rubin in Liar, Liar, pants on ceasefire on reasons why it was a mistake for Hamas to end the ceasefire: The first is that they ending the ceasefire while George W. Bush is president. Certainly Israel feels freer to … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged ceasefire
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When does it become a farce?
The New York Times explains why the Israeli ceasefire with Hamas didn’t work: Their job, the Hamas officials said, was to stop the rocket attacks on Israel not only from its own armed groups, but also from others based in … Continue reading
Pretend truce is officially over
The fantasy truce—the one where it’s okay to launch a few hundred rockets, instead of thousands—has been officially declared over by Hamas, and of course, it’s not their fault. It’s Israel’s. Hamas on Thursday declared the end of a six-month-old … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time, Terrorism
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Terrorism
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Oh yes they will, oh no they won’t
A sampling of headlines about the status of the truce between Israel and Hamas, from Yahoo! News. Hamas Threatens to End Truce Unless Israel Eases Restrictions Bloomberg – Wed Dec 17, 2:06 am EST Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Hamas is … Continue reading
A sur-really happy anniversary
I’m not sure what’s more surreal. Is it that Palestinians in impoverished Gaza have sufficient funds to deck everything out in Hamas Green or is it that there’s a faction of Hamas that is offering Israel an extension of a … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Media Bias
Tagged Gaza
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Israel breaks the truce by responding to constant rocket fire
Hamas continues its war of attrition against southern Israel. Here’s the tally for the last few days: Several mortar shells landed Tuesday noon near the Kerem Shalom border crossing in southern Gaza. No injuries or damage were reported in the … Continue reading
Hamas humanitarian crises
A few weeks ago Hamas engineered a blackout of Gaza, apparently for propaganda purposes. Now its latest stunt is to deny pilgrims from going on Hajj to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia sets quotas to different regions for the number of … Continue reading
Gaza operation imminent?
This time, it’s not a badly-sourced bunch of rumors from a discredited journalist. This time, there’s a mortar attack from Hamas to respond to, and an Israeli soldier who has lost his leg due to the attack. But it’s starting … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Terrorism
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Asking the arsonist to put out the fire
Israel’s foreign minister has asked the UN to take a stand against the continued rocket fire from Gaza. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni demanded in a telephone conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that the world stop … Continue reading
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Tagged UN
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All the Hamas lies fit to print
Say, remember last year, when the news media took pictures of Hamas members sitting around a table in the dark, without telling us that the picture was shot in the daytime, with the curtains drawn, to make it seem like … Continue reading
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The bunker mentality
I bring your attention to the following three recent news summaries from the NYT as visible through Bloglines. November 14, 2008 Deadly Gaza Border Clash Threatens Truce By By ISABEL KERSHNER on Hamas Four Hamas gunmen were killed in a … Continue reading
Disproportionate response, UN-style
Palestinians have fired more than 100 rockets during the eight months of the so-called cease-fire, including dozens of rockets in the last two weeks. But let’s just start with the order of recent events. Israel discovers a tunnel that Hamas … Continue reading
Hamas resumes full-scale attacks; media still taking truce
Hamas has resumed full-scale attacks on Israel, complete with wounded Israelis in Sderot, and the headline to the AP story is this: Gaza violence continues with airstrike, rockets Notice the order of events in the headline. Airstrikes come first, even … Continue reading