Ok, I come to this discussion late. I'm not very good a snap judgments or "liveblogging" or instant commentary. I like to go over things in my head, get some sleep, do something completely unrelated, and then come back to the subject later. Way later, sometimes. But I wanted to throw two cents in on this.
I, like several others on this board, have discussed the I/P conflict for sometime. I will make no bones about the fact that I consider myself to be strongly pro-Israel in that side of the debate, although I am just as adamantly pro-peace.
I take Hunter's admonition re: the need to clean up the discussion seriously. Some diaries, or at least the following comments, have become so outlandish that they have been a source of embarrasment to the site. Hunter works his ass off to keep a clean forum, and does not have double standards for points of view he would otherwise agree to.
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