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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.

Hamas’s Gaza debacle – yes, and yet…

In his latest article* Hamas’s Phony Victory professor Barry Rubin of GLORIA Center tells the story of Hamas’ latest failures: Imagine a very secret meeting held somewhere in the Gaza Strip. Around a table sit various Hamas bigwigs and their … Continue reading

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Just another game…

I believe now that I can find a silver lining in anything, so I am not absolutely lost to humanity. Here comes an example of a tragic story, idiocy and yes, some silver lining. Plus a superb writer, person and … Continue reading

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It cannot get better than this…

JP was on top of this story: In a protest organized by a coalition of left-wing movements, over 1,000 people demonstrated at the Erez border crossing on Saturday in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the residents of … Continue reading

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Another short lesson in English

You simply cannot invent a thing like this: Leader: A featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers You shall see in a second which of the two meanings above is applicable when you read … Continue reading

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Gaza – it doesn’t take a prophet

And I am definitely not one, since it was only too easy to predict the next step in the Hamas’ propaganda war, which I said in that post will be: Gazans of all ages and genders dying in droves in … Continue reading

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Nasrallah’s greatest secret

After year and a half of hiding, Nasrallah the Lebanese groundhog emerged from his bunker. Triumphantly too, and with good reason. It is not for nothing that he spent the time in seclusion, it appears, and all rumors about his … Continue reading

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Until the dust settles

Sderot: beseiged and abandoned The situation in Sderot as it looks to Seth Freedman. Quite precise. Then he comes to the whattodo part: Evacuating them to safety, whatever the cost, is the least they deserve until the dust settles. Then … Continue reading

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And now to the next step in the PR attack

The ink on the first installment of the Gazan propaganda on the fuel shortages has not dried yet, and the ever servile AP with its tame photographers are ready with visual aids: The capture under this one: Palestinians warm themselves … Continue reading

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

This is only a part of the headline (they told me not to make them too long). The other part is: Or lying through your teeth about power shortages in Gaza The story by Barry Rubin of Gloria Center has … Continue reading

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Norman Finkelstein in Lebanon: when the unmentionable meets the unspeakable

Probably getting booted out from the DePaul university has exacerbated his all-consuming lust for visibility. Now he has found a way – after his other learned friend, who also went on a similar pilgrimage. Finkelstein is known as a vocal … Continue reading

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Nasrallah the anti-racist

Ynet recorded another eruption from that submerged victorious groundhog, the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah: According to Nasrallah, Bush views Israel “as a Jewish state, that is, racist…its existence is premised on race. Israel aspires for a racially pure existence.” Now … Continue reading

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That political money

This was one surprising message: An Israeli Arab anti-Zionist group is calling for the boycott of Jewish agencies looking to contribute to Israeli Arab communities in Israel. The agencies, united under the rubric of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Israeli … Continue reading

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Al-Qaeda cash problem

Al-Qaeda finances seem to be in disarray, according to this: Al-Qaida video messages of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri can now be downloaded to cell phones, the terror network announced as part of its attempts to extend its influence. … Continue reading

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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

That Latin stuff (that could be loosely translated as “fear the gift-bearing Greeks”) does not have anything to do with the Greeks in this case. Neither does the phrase “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” have much to … Continue reading

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Why don’t Israeli soldiers rape Palestinian women?

It appears that I have missed a huge brouhaha lately. A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers’ committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose. The abstract … Continue reading

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