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…
Tag Archives: peace process
Signs of Wanting Peace
According to a recent New York Times article: The Palestinian decision to apply for full United Nations membership at the Security Council, announced Friday by President Mahmoud Abbas, was the most viable of the only options possible: surrender, return to violence or appeal … Continue reading
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Tagged Israel, Palestinians, Peace Negotiations, peace process, Surrender, UDI, United Nations
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Where Negotiations Begin
I have never wondered why negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians are so difficult. There are many obvious reasons. You can probably name a half-dozen without much thought. Yet, there is one reason that they have gotten more difficult in … Continue reading
What is Wrong with 67 Lines with Swaps?
What is wrong with “the 1967 borders and mutually agreed upon swaps?” As a stand alone statement, it is problematic for a number of reasons. First, the pre-1967 lines are actually armistice lines, not borders. This means that they were … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967 lines, 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, AIPAC, Jerusalem, negotiations, Obama, peace process
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Nothing New Under The Sun?
In the Middle East and UN, ein chadash tachat hashemesh, there is nothing new under the sun. Yet, representatives of the Obama Administration have repeatedly made strong statements that this is not the case, including most notably, the one made by … Continue reading
Ammiel Hirsch’s Response to Peter Beinart at the CCAR Convention
At the CCAR Convention in New Orleans this past week, Peter Beinart and Ammiel Hirsch spoke about Israel advocacy. Ammiel Hirsch’s response to Beinart is simply one of the best responses to him and those who agree with his positions … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Jews, Middle East, United Nations
Tagged Ammiel Hirsch, CCAR, CCAR Convention, Gaza, Israel, J-Street, peace process, Peter Beinart, Political Left, UN
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Naive Foreign Policy
So the US proposed to back a resolution basically reaffirming what it should not have affirmed in 1979 about the legitimacy of settlements, though a weaker version. The current reported proposal would only condemn “continued” settlement building, something that hardly … Continue reading
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Tagged foreign policy, Israel, Middle East, Naive Foreign Policy, Obama, peace process, Resolution, settlements, unsc
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Addictive Thinking and Israel
Those who counsel people who are addicts and their co-dependents are very familiar with the concept of Addictive Thinking and Abraham Twerski’s well known book on the subject. The basic idea is that those who are addicted have distorted thinking. … Continue reading
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Tagged Addictive Thinking, Israel, Israelis, Middle East Peace, Palestine, Palestinians, peace process, Twerski
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Jazeerileaks
I think it is time to stop pretending that all of the documents purported to be leaked Palestinian Authority documents are what they claim to be, namely PA diplomatic memos. Some are, but many are not. Barry Rubin goes into … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbas, Al Jazeera, Concessions, Palestinian Papers, peace process
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The State of the Pursuit of a Palestinian State
Those interested in the peace process as it stands today should read my piece “Palestinian Leverage” followed by my article on the Wikileaks and the Arab perspective both written in November.  The combination of factors that I note in those articles … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967 border, Abbas, Jerusalem, negotiations, Obama, palestinian state, Palestinians, peace process, UN, unsc, unscr 242
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Wikileaks and the Arab Perspective
Barry Rubin and the GLORIA Center noted that the Wikileaks documents confirm what they have been saying about the Middle East. Among other things, what the Wikileaks docs show is that what the administration has been saying about a “linkage” … Continue reading
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Tagged Iran, Israel, Linkage, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, peace process, US, Wikileaks
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J Street’s Call to End Oslo
This week J Street sent out a petition to its membership urging them to sign on to a letter urging the Obama Administration as follows: Mr. President — You have inspired me with your commitment to a two-state solution to … Continue reading
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Tagged J-Street, Jerusalem, Obama, peace process, settlements, We Are For Israel
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Palestinians Leveraging UN Pressure
An article in Haaretz today describes the problems that the Palestinians have with the current moratorium extension proposal. The article quotes an unnamed Israeli official as saying: The political benefits that Israel would receive as part of the package of … Continue reading
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Tagged Obama administration, Palestinians, peace process, settlements, UN, US
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Delusions of the self kind
Soccer Dad is writing about Bill Clinton’s imaginary Israel/Palestinian negotiations, where Yasser Arafat was not an unrepentant terrorist who launched countless terror attacks in the hopes of defeating Israel, but a partner in peace. But he missed the most deluded … Continue reading
Not to bring you down a notch but…
Friends, I know that many out there are thrilled that the Republicans control Congress. You were shouting for joy at times last night and have a big grin on your face and a spring in your step this morning. I … Continue reading
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Tagged elections, foreign policy, Israel, Obama, peace process
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Never – When the Palestinian Authority will Recognize the Jewish State
Today, I published an article for We Are For Israel in which I talked about today’s article from Haaretz in which the PA leaders repeated their statement that they will “Never” recognize Israel as a Jewish state. You might want to … Continue reading