Author Archives: SnoopyTheGoon

About SnoopyTheGoon

Daily job - software development. Hobbies - books, books, friends, simgle malt Scotch, lately this blogging plague. Amateur photographer, owned by 1. spouse, 2 - two grown-up (?) children and 3. two elderly cats - not necessarily in that order, it is rather fluid. Israeli.

Hassan Nasrallah: moving house

Posted on 05/10/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

This was really just a joke. Timing is all, you know how it goes… However, now it appears to be a prophetic one: Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has made fundamental changes in his personal security arrangements to avoid being killed … Continue reading →

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Roger Cohen: a man who rarely misses an opportunity to miss a point

Posted on 05/03/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

A person is rarely a master of his associative thinking. At least I am not in control of my own wild and willful one. Why is that each time I see the picture of Roger Cohen, the venerable columnist of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time | Comments Off

On the interconnectedness of it all… to Zionists

Posted on 04/28/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

When you think that The Guardian cannot get any lower that it already got to regarding Israel… scratch it. I know that I’ve already used this sentence more than once. I also know that no matter when this sentence is … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome | 1 Comment

Judge Goldstone: the man or the role?

Posted on 04/12/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

Several widely diverse discussions of Judge Richard Goldstone’s personality were already published in the media, and there will surely be more. The aftershock of the WaPo article Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes caused an about turn … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Politics | 1 Comment

Moammar Gadhafi and his potential heirs

Posted on 02/28/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

By now there is an almost worldwide consensus about the need to get rid of the dictator, a consensus bucked only by a few odious characters like Hugo the Comical Chavez, Fidel the Beard Castro and, not so strangely, Nicaraguan … Continue reading →

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Is the barbarism unimaginable? Maybe, but it’s all part of self-defence, a freedom-struggle, martyrdom

Posted on 02/13/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

Kaye Wilson, a person whose personal courage is hard to describe, tells in mute tones, much of it  understatement, about the horrific experience at the hand of two petty criminals turned terrorists. They butchered her friend, Kristine Luken, they stabbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Terrorism | 7 Comments

Gideon Levy, the baron of deceit industry, strikes again

Posted on 02/07/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

Nah, it’s not a singular occurrence, you can relax. Gideon Levy does this on daily basis, so nothing special happened, really. But if you are interested in the bits and bytes (or nuts and bolts) of deceit, Levy’s latest piece of … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Media Bias | Comments Off

Egypt: The American Debate Has Gone Stark, Raving Crazy

Posted on 02/05/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

This is what prof. Barry Rubin is saying about the latest intellectual contortions in Washington. And he is not sparing the neocons, too: Consider one example (Roger Cohen has gone beyond ridicule so let’s focus on someone who should know … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, World | 2 Comments

The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland and Karma Nabulsi: now we know…

Posted on 01/25/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

It certainly pays off to sit for a while on the fence (I wonder why that activity is called this way in English – after all, normally fence is the last place you would choose to plop your backside upon). … Continue reading →

Posted in Media Bias, Politics | 6 Comments

Lieberman: the new Caroline’s idol?

Posted on 01/17/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

It is not a secret that Caroline Glick’s infatuation (politically-wise only, of course) with Bibi has been replaced lately by a markedly cooler attitude. Her latest JP column Exposing the puppetmasters shows that her heart is captured by another hero. I avoid … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Politics | 12 Comments

Clare Solomon and her puny 100 years of persecution

Posted on 12/20/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

In fact, this headline is confusing, I can see it now. Clare Solomon, president of the University of London Union, is only 37 years old. You may want to say that 37 is a bit too old for a student. … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism | 6 Comments

Thomas L. Friedman reader – chapter one

Posted on 12/13/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

This new endeavor comes to remedy the lack of respect many Thomas L. Friedman readers start to experience after reading two (or, as it was measured, maximum of three) of his articles in NYT. The best remedy is to follow … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Media, palestinian politics | 5 Comments

There is referendum and then there is referendum

Posted on 12/02/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

There is a good referendum: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh says group will back formation of Palestinian state with 1967 borders, Jerusalem as capital and resolution of refugee issue if approved by referendum, despite group’s differing ideology. And then there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Hamas, Israel, Politics | 1 Comment

Lori Berenson: a nice Jewish girl from a nice Jewish family? You bet…

Posted on 11/29/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

The CNN article Peruvian court grants parole to imprisoned U.S. citizen caused me to do some surfing. I didn’t know anything about Lori Berenson. The mere fact that a US citizen was imprisoned for 20 years in Peru – not … Continue reading →

Posted in American Scene, Politics, Terrorism | 37 Comments

North Korea, ploughshares, swords, common sense…

Posted on 11/25/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

The headline Why North Korea attack is not a crisis is a masterpiece. It can’t fail to draw your attention from any other these days. I mean, after hearing (and seeing) how NK artillery opened up on a South Korean … Continue reading →

Posted in Media Bias, Politics, World | 2 Comments

The unbearable dilemma of an “anti-Zionist”

Posted on 11/16/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

The famous Buridan’s ass that is dying due to its inability to choose between two equally succulent and equidistant stacks of hay* has nothing on a rabid anti-Zionist**, one professor Francis Boyle. You have, most probably, observed at least once … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome | 6 Comments

Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan for defaming the Prophet Mohammed

Posted on 11/11/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

The police were under pressure from this Muslim mob, including clerics, asking for Asia to be killed because she had spoken ill of the Prophet Mohammed. Weigh carefully what this quote says and means. There is no mention of religious … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Religion, World | 4 Comments

Legality and morality of drone attacks

Posted on 11/10/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

Warning: long post! The use of armed drones in the conflict areas is not exactly new, as are arguments for and against the use of this weapon. Found to be quite effective in getting to the various terrorist chiefs and … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | 2 Comments

Another wall of Goldstone report crumbles. What now?

Posted on 11/08/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, Israel targeted the Hamas police infrastructure, killing approximately 250 officers on 27 December 2008. Their status as combatants was disputed and Israel’s actions were widely condemned. The UN investigation into Cast Lead headed by Richard … Continue reading →

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Gabriel Latner and Philip Weiss, his dim opponent

Posted on 11/07/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

Sometimes I enjoy writing about assaJews, the valiant Jooish anti-Zionists, I have to say. No matter how many dumb things our own politicos say and do, assaJews will always leave them standing in the race for ultimate dumb act. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel | 2 Comments