Re: 1) Please reserve the F-bomb, N-bomb, and such epithetical bombs for other threads or over drinks with your friends.
F-bomb?! N-bomb?! So far, the only "bomb" I dropped is the J-bomb, that is, my pet "Judeofascist" epithet... That doesn't please you, does it? But "Judeo" ain't pejorative, for instance, "Judeo-Christian" is alright, isn't it? For that matter, I'll tell you why I keep using the terms "Judeofascist" and "Judeofascism": I use them precisely to differentiate between Jews, Israelis, and... Judeofascists. We ought not mix them up and lump fascist Zionists/Likudniks together with decent Jews and Israelis.
Re: 2) Proof-read your texts for self-evident biases or politics, and spare the atmosphere of the thread.
Look, there're dozens, perhaps hundreds, of PC threads and weblogs the internet over.... That advice of yours belongs to the sanitized "discussion forums" maintained by CNN.com, nytimes.com, US-Israel.com and the like.... Thank God, SI has steadfastly clung to free speech and allowed its members to call a spade a spade, so to speak.... Besides, I must tell you that I've been banned from the Foreign affairs threads (started by Faultline) so I advise you to switch over there where I won't be able to annoy you....
Re: 3) Focus on facts, on both sides of the issue where possible....
Goddammit... You Yanks are so patronizing!! Focus on facts?!? But I was referring to a perfectly respectable piece of news from the Intl Herald Tribune... Did you notice I seldom, if ever, refer to fringe, radical medias? I didn't bring up some neo-Nazi propaganda from Hezbollah!
Finally, my turn to give you an advice: when a poster's opinion/comment upsets you, please, don't get personal... It's indeed a bad habit with you, Yanks, to sermonize the poster instead of debunking his arguments... Please, from now on, try to focus on the "message", not the messenger... Whether you like the messenger or not doesn't matter --this is not your "neocon club"...
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