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Originally posted by mmiichael
I've watched as a number of the more knowledgeable members have withdrawn or been banned. A pattern emerges.
It started getting heavy when Israel went into Gaza last year. Commonly someone tries to confront the torrent of antisemitism that floods the site with baseless malign reports on Israeli activities, attempts to claim Mossad was responsible for 9/11, etc.
A lynch mob of alerted regulars show up on the thread with their links to Neo-Nazi site analysis and Pallywood industry videos.
The discussion becomes inflammatory and the inevitable "Jews run the world" rhetoric becomes overwhelming.
Someone gets really angry and lashes out - and gets banned. Then it starts anew on another thread.
This happens on the 9/11 forum but within somewhat different parameters.
I'd say the lunatics have taken over the asylum. The barbarians have brought down the gates. The Internet trolls have won due to their vast numbers and persistence.
Those of us trying to being enlightenment and discussion are now like the isolate monks in the Dark Ages.
Maybe an overreactive melodramatization on my part, but how I feel these days on this site.
M
[edit on 8-2-2010 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by mmiichael
Just gotta point out to you man... the Israelis sure weren't throwing candy and kittens at Gaza. To blanket label everything posted in defense of the Gazans as antisemitic or "pallywood" (Palestine, famed home of special effects and CGI masters!) is pretty ignorant. Granted there's some whack crap that got posted, but to lump it all together?
Of course they do!!!
Do skeptics and debunkers belong in a conspiracy website?
Originally posted by mmiichael
I don't remember how many thousands rockets and missiles were sent at civilian targets into Israel or how many people were killed or injured. A good percentage even during periods when Hamas had agreed to a ceasfire.
It is now a matter o public knowledge Iran was not only funding Hamas, but also supplying weaponry and training. There was an elite Revolutionary Guard legion right in Gaza.
The whole Gaza conflict is now understood better as an Iranian provoked proxy war with Israel, even possibly a dry run.
Despite the rhetoric of malign Israel unjustly attacking an innocent stone-throwing Gazans the emerged details tell the story. Israel did it's best to avoid civilian casualties even though Hamas militants refused to identify themselves with uniforms and later grossly inflated civilian death numbers. The fact that Israel withdrew when it had the upper hand instead of inflicting even more severe infrastructural destruction and inevitable losses of life is also telling.