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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.

The story of a fanatic or why Alice Walker is sailing to Gaza

I have spent some time since reading Alice Walker’s article in The Guardian Why I’m joining the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza attempting to get my head around it. I was trying to understand her motives and her justification in joining … Continue reading

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Imagine there’s no countries…

You all know where that headline comes from, even if you are of that age where, when singing it for the first time, your brain was so addled by chemical or natural additives that memories of everything else left you … Continue reading

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Jolly Roger strikes again – after a decent interval

I am sure that by now the subject has almost exhausted itself. After all, how can the two or three readers of this blog* be interested by the jolly Roger of NYT after a series of posts on same? But … Continue reading

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“Where’s my gold bars?”, asks future POTUS

It is with quiet glee and intense happiness that I’ve perused this article. Are the gold bars in Fort Knox really made of the precious metal? Or has the U.S. government secretly sold off the nation’s stockpile and replaced it … Continue reading

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Binyamin Netanyahu (Bibi) goes to Washington

First I have a confession to make: my expectations of the Obama – Bibi meeting were completely off the mark. I was sure that Bibi will fold under pressure from Obama/Hilary and raise only a token resistance during the meeting, … Continue reading

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Hassan Nasrallah: moving house

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

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

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On the interconnectedness of it all… to Zionists

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

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Judge Goldstone: the man or the role?

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

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Moammar Gadhafi and his potential heirs

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

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

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Gideon Levy, the baron of deceit industry, strikes again

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

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Egypt: The American Debate Has Gone Stark, Raving Crazy

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

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

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

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Lieberman: the new Caroline’s idol?

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

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