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.

On Iranian volunteer suicide bombers

From an AP writer: Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. But there seems to be a hitch: … Continue reading

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Mulling on Hamas, Gaza, Seth, matzav

It is quite difficult to mull on the developments in Gaza while people are dying. People will continue to die, more if the ground operation we are being warned about will come true. This (people dying) is so far the … Continue reading

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What Israel is doing is nothing to do with peace but its own selfish security concerns

This made me laugh and cry simultaneously. But I didn’t break my PC. It’s too… what? Read more here, and many thanks to Andrew Ian Dodge. Also – read the whole linked article in The London Daily News. (Warning – … Continue reading

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Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) canards

Some people will start fasting tomorrow evening, according to their faith. Some other people want to make the first people suffer from extra hunger pangs by deliberately freeing some tasty succulent canards in the direction of the fasting people. Here … Continue reading

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The financial crisis and the Jewish culprits

Internet posters blame Jews for financial crash, this blogger says. This one joins him too. Judging by the number of surfers coming here with the “Bernanke Jew?” question, some people think they are getting wise to the real culprits of … Continue reading

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Joe Biden – Sarah Palin debate transcript correction

Some people got their knickers bunched because of this part of the transcript (allegedly said by Joe Biden): When we kicked – along with France, we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon, I said and Barack said, “Move NATO forces in … Continue reading

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Ronit Lentin and poetic license of the feeble-minded

I shall never stop envying people educated and gainfully employed in one of the modern vaguely defined “sciences”. Like the case of learned Dr Lentin here: Dr Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa prior to the establishment of the State … Continue reading

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Miami five and the bleeding hearts

This post is triggered by that post by Neil of A Cloud in Trousers. In which Neil joins the crowd of bleeding hearts demanding the release of five Cubans arrested by FBI in 1998 and put on trial for quite … Continue reading

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The Indy angle

It will be short but sweet: Independent reports on the terror attack in Jerusalem (September 22): Police said the incident was a “terror attack”… A rescue worker said the group of pedestrians was about to cross a road near the … Continue reading

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FSB and its patron saint

A Russian religious group called Union of Russian Orthodox Citizens proposed promoting the Saint Alexander Nevsky to the role of the patron saint of FSB – the Russian federal security service, the main successor of KGB. Here is Alexander: When … Continue reading

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Ehud Barak – what is he up to?

“On the eve of Israel’s 60th Independence Day, the country’s population stands at 7,282,000”, says this site. Without arguing about this number – 7,281,999 of the citizens do not have a slightest idea what their minister of defense is doing … Continue reading

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Israel: too many prophets and no king

For the sake of brevity I have omitted the word “mad” in the headline, you might want to work out by yourself where it fits. We are used to joke about that famous “three million presidents”* thing, about three Jooz … Continue reading

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Robert Fisk – see how it is done

No, I don’t plan another example of fisking per se. Just a vague mealy-mouthed vignette on the general lines of how some unscrupulous journos use sleight of hand to deceive and mislead the reader, especially one that desires to be … Continue reading

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Seth Freedman – an apologist for Hamas TV

Seth Freedman as an apologist – this sounds strange, no matter what entity he is supposed to apologize for. The opposite was believed to be true – as one of the main contributors of the Guardian political cesspool called Comment … Continue reading

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Antony Lerman and the Jewish question

A fairly standard battle cry on the Israeli roads is: “The person that gave you a driver license has to be killed!”. I don’t need to describe the situation relevant to this cry, do I? The first thought I had … Continue reading

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