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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.

So – a leader of what?

We complain about mass media aiding and abetting Palywood myth building. But here is an example of mass media creating a myth without any participation of the Palywood. From Fox news site of October 9, 2010: As shows Exhibit 1, … Continue reading

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The dancing IDF soldier, BBC, CNN, FFS – and YOU

This post is not about the dancing Israeli nincompoop of a soldier, nor about BBC or CNN or even FFS. It’s about you. But to define “you”, we’ll have to peruse the two following exhibits. Which are simply lists of … Continue reading

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UN lashes Israel over flotilla hit – and why I love Aussies

ISRAEL has attacked a UN committee that found it engaged in “wilful killing and torture” when its soldiers boarded a flotilla bound for Gaza in May. This is the way the article in The Australian starts – by copying a … Continue reading

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Professor Emeritus Moshé Machover, logic and politics

I have stumbled on a new year gift of a kind in the Guardian. It’s a letter by professor Emeritus Moshé Machover, grandly titled “Israel, Jews and the peace process”. The letter is relatively short and is worth reading in … Continue reading

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Delusions of “peace:” Breaking the conspiracy of silence

This is an article that you will probably find as hard to read as I had. One certain indication that the peace talks must fail is the flood of mail that I have gotten of late from Palestinian peace and … Continue reading

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While the bodies are still warm

Ghada Karmi, a nasty propagandist, one of many in the Guardian’s service, excelled in her article A Middle East peace that wreaks havoc. The lede of the article speaks for the rest of it: “With the odds stacked so strongly … Continue reading

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Omar Khadr: not guilty by reason of genetics

I am sure the person who sent me the link to www.thekhadrlegacy.com site (now expired) has done so with good intentions in mind. After all, that person, who will remain unknown for the purposes of Elders’ network information security, does … Continue reading

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Dr David Lowry – a short study in contradictions

I have stumbled on a curious letter to the Guardian, titled Hiroshima, Israel and nuclear tests, signed by Dr David Lowry, former director, European Proliferation Information Center (EPIC). He starts with the background: I visited the exhibition on images of … Continue reading

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The sudden twist in Hamas propaganda

Aussie Dave aka Israelly Cool noticed it: The palestinians, their supporters, and those who do not, but should know, better have been portraying Gaza as a concentration camp/prison camp – replete with widespread poverty and starvation. … The proliferation of … Continue reading

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Nasrallah’s “revelations” of Zionist crimes

The trailer to this thriller was published a week ago: The leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. In a fiery speech, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah … Continue reading

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More fallout from the Lebanese border incident

Most of the info in this post comes from Army radio, some of it, not necessarily in that order or one place, could be found on the Internet. Yesterday a meeting as held in Nakura between UNIFIL commander in the … Continue reading

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The Lebanese border deaths: who benefits?

When the smoke of the shooting dispersed a bit and the details started to emerge, the picture became clear quite soon. IDF had informed UNIFIL about the maintenance work to be performed in the enclave, which is a part of … Continue reading

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Is Oliver Stoned? Nope, just doing a Gibson.

I know that this post is a relatively late reaction to the latest tempest in a teapot created by one of the Hollywood finest. However, after reading a few articles on the subject, I was somewhat dissatisfied by the analysis … Continue reading

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Baby Assad finds his real calling!

Well, mazel tov to Baby Assad, he is quite advanced in years to get somewhere, and finally he’s done it! Syria and Libya teamed up Sunday to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to quit peace talks with Israel and return … Continue reading

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Iranians and Turks with fake Israeli passports

I have read first two reports: by Kateland and by colleague Elder of Ziyon, both based on a Maariv article (in Hebrew). The essence of the reports is that: …three Iranians were caught at an airport in Seychelles trying to … Continue reading

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