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.

Poor service no more!

A revolutionary remedy against bad service was invented and tested in Morocco on March 11. A man who was prevented from looking at terror Web sites by the owners of an Internet cafe blew himself up with explosives hidden on … Continue reading

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Anti-racist anti-Zionists, the end of

This blog is not overly concerned with the goings-on in the rabid and vocal camp of British anti-Zionists. The camp is actually a motley arrangement of tents, each belonging to a different tribe, each tribe fighting all the others simultaneously … Continue reading

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Undressing the king

Of course, it is not about a member of the Royal family, what, are you totally bonkers? It is about the one and the only Michael Moore, the king of a new cinema genre defined by NYT as “tweaked documentary”. … Continue reading

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Sound the bell again, professor

It is an old story, and I don’t know its source: A professor of anthropology visits a Bedouin camp to investigate this or another habit of the tribe. Feeling thirsty, he looks around for a well and finds it. Near … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Politics | 3 Comments

The blood of your brethren

MUMBAI: The four blasts in Malegaon town in Nasik district were carried out in places of religious significance for Muslims since the perpetrators hoped to motivate the members of the community to take up arms against the Hindu community, an … Continue reading

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Arrow – a lullaby for the nuclear age

Israel’s latest test of its Arrow missile defense system proves Israel has a jump on its fiercest enemies, Iran and Syria, a senior lawmaker on the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said Monday. “The test yesterday was exceptional,” said … Continue reading

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The tragic end of Al Aqsa mosque

Lest you should continue nursing hopes about the possibility of Al Aqsa mosque surviving the latest onslaught by the murderous Zionists, here comes the news: Tehran’s Interim Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati warned that the destruction of the al-Aqsa … Continue reading

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They are cheating in exams too…

Does cheating in exams mean that the students in this British school are fully integrated in the famous British multi-cultural environment? If so, this is the only criteria that may show that the school is in UK. Because, after reading … Continue reading

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The distilled form of evil

Via Mick Hartley. “The disgusting form of evil”. This is how Canada’s former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas called harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, that seems to … Continue reading

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A bit of lazy weekend fisking

There is something unfair in sitting home during a rainy day in your favorite armchair with your favorite cat purring near the keyboard (in expectation that you will go away for a few moments, forgetting to close the laptop’s lid … Continue reading

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More gaseous conspiracies

The Sunday Times says that Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’: A prize-winning Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran. An intelligence source … Continue reading

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Time for the last envelope?

The excuses our current minister of defense is using to hold to the job are nothing short of pathetic: The office of Defense Minister Amir Peretz says that all major complaints should be addressed to Israel’s previous defense ministers, Shaul … Continue reading

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On the policy of understatement

My friends (especially some of them that are more into newspaper business than I am) always try to calm me down when I go on a rave about the titles some articles carry. It is not the authors, they tell … Continue reading

Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism | 3 Comments

Thrice failed

AP wasn’t my personal cup of tea, there are people who are much better in this specific subject. But I have stumbled by accident on an article Palestinian bomber had lost his daughter by one Sarah El Deeb, AP writer. … Continue reading

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AP – moral relativism and body count

This is not a good day to squabble about politics or to nitpick. But this headline by AP got up my nose: Suicide bombing kills 4 in Israel I thought that another Israeli died since the bombing and looked closer … Continue reading

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