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
Hamas says Abbas Cannot Represent the Palestinians
Isn’t it exciting that the Israelis and Palestinians are meeting in direct talks to tell each other the same thing that they have been saying for the months now indirectly? Direct talks certainly hold more possibilities for progress, but also … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbas, Fatah, Hamas, negotiations, Netanyahu, peace process
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Changing Opinions
As Meryl wrote yesterday morning, Abbas is refusing to hold direct talks without preconditions that amount to determining the end game of discussions about borders. This is in no small part due to the perception that both the Obama administration … Continue reading
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Tagged Changing Policies, Iran, J-Street, Obama administration, peace process, Pressuring Israel
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Abbas’ strategy: Preconditions, preconditions, preconditions
Benjamin Netanyahu has called for direct talks with the Palestinians, with no preconditions. Israel, he says, is ready to sit down right now and discuss all of the issues. Mahmoud Abbas has said the Palestinians will not resume direct talks … Continue reading
Two State Solution Eroding?
Mahmoud Abbas yesterday said that a two state solution is eroding. Â This is generally assumed to mean that the only option is a single state solution. The problem is that no single state solution has ever been or could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbas, Gaza, peace, peace process, single state solution, two state solution, west bank
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Sabotaging negotiations before they begin
The Palestinians are not serious about negotations with Israel. It is evident to anyone who has followed the situation at any length, but they’re really making it easy to see that they don’t really want two states, side by side, … Continue reading
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Why peace processes fail
Recently, Meryl, Daled Amos and I have both written about the perverse incentives and results of the peace procdess. Now Bret Stephens writes about how Peace Processes never work: But he misses a deeper point. Even as peace processes almost … Continue reading
The peace process is about to continue … no it isn’t … arrgh!
What’s the current state of Middle East negotiations? According to the New York Times … they’re back on track … maybe The American envoy to the Middle East, George J. Mitchell, planned to meet on Friday with Israeli and Palestinian … Continue reading
The twisted logic of the peace process
The other day, the Wall Street Journal ran an article How the next Middle East War could start, by Ronen Bergman. Unfortunately the article is mostly behind the Journal’s pay wall. A quick summary of the article is that all … Continue reading
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The Egyptian plan: Surrender Dorothy!
The Egyptians have a new plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Apparently, all Israel has to do is give the Palestinians what they want, and there will be peace. Negotiations? Well, those will be to determine exactly how much of Israel has … Continue reading
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Palestinian intransigence – the long and the short of it
Barry Rubin – the long of it The attractiveness of unilateralism is understandable. Why make a deal with Israel that might require recognizing it as a Jewish state, taking a bit less territory on the West Bank or having to … Continue reading
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When doves whine
The NYT has a short look at “Baker’s Boys” the Middle East peace processors who worked through the Bush 41 and Clinton administrations, From Experts on Mideast, No Shortage of Advice . The article is about Dennis Ross (not Rose), … Continue reading
The futility of the peace process
Two op-eds today make the point – in different ways – that the peace process, the holy grail of diplomacy, is a chimera. David Brooks writes in The confidence war: By trial and error, Israel is learning to keep an … Continue reading
The Miller’s tale (again)
Coming off of his triumphant op-ed in the Jerusalem Post, Aaron David Miller who has successfully participated in getting the Israelis and Palestinians come to agreements and have those agreements violated by the Palestinians, does a curtain call with a … Continue reading