Fred Bauder wrote:
I believe RK's material could and should probably
be
presented in several paragraphs. What he has done
is a piece of original historical research, which by
citing particular statements made by Palestinians
builds a strong case that at least some Palestinian
leaders are insincere.
Well the allegation that Palestinian leaders often say one thing in English to
westerners and say another thing in Arabic to the Islamic world is not what I
would call new work.
But the long passage would definitely be improved by a great deal of
condensation at the very least. My first impression upon reading it was that
for the length of text it actually said very little. But I'm not prepared to
get into an edit war with RK over it - he seems to find it difficult to take
critical comments about his work.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who avoids editing these kind of articles
because of RK. Wrong or not on this particular issue, Danny was one of the
few people who would not back down to RK's bullying (yes, IMO, what RK does
when he does not get his way is bullying).
Sadly it now seems that Jimbo's declarative and unmitigated comments have
resulted in Danny leaving the project. Jimbo should realize the great weight
his comments have and mix criticism with some sort of mitigating/less sharp
comments.
I don't think that Danny's absence serves the big picture goal of having NPOV
over many Middle-east subjects.
I am very sad to see him leave.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)