Oldak, this is the mailing list of Commons. This is not a political mailing list. Beside the fact that you views of Zionism are simplistic and wrong, it is not the emotions of Zionists that we want to keep out of here, but the emotions of *all* politically-driven people. Be they tenants of the Israeli right-wing and far-right-wing, or their opponents.
Pedro and Gizmo, this is a *mailing list*, not a private channel; and it is the mailing list of Wikimedia Commons, which is, indeed, multi-lingual. Meaning that people from all language interact here. If you are speaking to everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to use a lingua franca that everybody understands. If you are not speaking to everybody, it is common sense and courtesy to bring the discussion to some private place where it belongs.
-- Rama