By the way, I think I have finally figured out how I could have possibly missed the fact that the page was protected when I edited it (note that I concede that I *did* edit a protected page).
Look at this version:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Occupation_of_Palestine&oldid =6099350
It's just a REDIRECT. There's no {{protected}} notice on it. To be fair to the others, I don't think we ever had a convention that a "protected redirect" should have a notice on it. I guess they thought I was following the action more closely.
I didn't think the matter was closed, and I also thought (and still think) that making significant changes to a page under vfd automatically necessitates a new vote.
If there is a policy page that says no one can edit a page which others want deleted, I must have missed it.
If people think a page should not be edited, because they want to vote on its disposition -- well, I'm not sure that's a good idea, but I don't think I would have dared to edit a protected page with a {{protected notice}} on it. I'm not usually that bold. I would at least have unprotected it first and said so on the talk page...
Ed Poor Somewhere in the Hamptons (with Martha Stewart, under house arrest)