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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious.  It looks like there's one poster (maybe two) who has pretty much taken over all like threads.  Maybe I'm wrong but the writing style seems the same.

I even commented that there's no real reason to keep starting new threads every time a Palestinean child is killed in the conflict and that s/he might incorporate their thoughts into similar existing threads.  And I would say the same every time an Israeli child or any innocent civilian is killed.

This is a volatile subject and people feel very strongly.  My heart breaks for the innocent Palestinean and Israeli people caught up in this quagmire, but I am troubled by the level of anti-semitism in most of the posts.  It's a bit frightening and affects of it are already being seen inside our boarders during protests across the country.

As much as I've seen some of the most hateful threads about Obama, this is worse.

Maybe some words of temperate wisdom from you might help quell things a bit.  You made one about a thought comment thought you had a differing opinion.  I think it changed the tone a bit.

Posts are boiling over IMHO.[/quote]

I was going along with you until this point: "I am troubled by the level of anti-semitism in most of the posts". It is clear that you and I will not agree on what is appropriate discourse and what is not. There are multiple posts calling for the widespread killing of Palestinians and/or destruction of Gaza. There is even a thread dedicated to hoping that the Palestinians are taught a "generational lesson". If there are any truly anti-Semitic posts, they are very, very much the minority and eclipsed by the anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab posts. The way to moderate the discourse is to engage in moderate discourse. Describing those with whom you disagree as anti-Semites does nothing lower the temperature.

If you are interested in why I haven't objected to the second thread about the second killing of multiple Palestinian children, it is because the first thread has devolved into a debate about our military and whether it consists of heroes or murderers and due to the fact that the OP of the second thread was trying to address a very specific point that had come up repeatedly in the earlier thread. The current battle in Gaza is complex and has many aspects. It is understandable that it will provoke many threads.
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