Fred Bauder wrote:
Agreed, I was hasty. But you must admit a struggle to put forward points of view by partisan advocates is in progress. Deletion and thus silence is just as much its expression as RK's overdone presentation.
Can you be more specific about what is overdone about his presentation? I'm not sure what the word "overdone" means here.
Certainly, the material in question is too long and in detail for a broad overview article -- but this only shows why it was a mistake to delete the original article in the first place.
But in tems of actual content, I don't see the problem. There is no question that a full understanding of the Palestinian situation requires understanding what Palestinian views of the peace process actually are. There is no question that one point of contention is whether Palestinian leaders, in particular, view the peace process as "permanent and irrevocable" (or similar) or whether they view it merely as a short-term negotiating tactic in a longterm effort to destroy Israel.
Simply omitting information on that question is unacceptable. This is an important part of one of the major questions of our time.
I've read and re-read the passages in question -- they could use some work, no doubt. But the only arguments I've seen for deletion is that the material is biased (though just how it is biased, I'm not sure).
I've been trying to find the original VfD entry, but Wikipedia is painfully slow at the moment, so I've been unsuccessful.
--Jimbo