Comments on: Apologies From The Editor

By: SusanWOB

SusanWOB — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:43:56 +0000

Just an FYI: The Hohol posts are still in Donklephant’s RSS feed, feed://feeds.feedburner.com/donklephant/CFBW

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:28:12 +0000

Jimmy,

To mw’s point, he didn’t post that because he believed it. He posted it as a reactionary counterpoint to the other post…which is why he was okay with it being taken down.

Essentially, there are limits and that one went well over the line of the civility we strive to maintain here. You don’t accuse Israel of undertaking ethnic cleansing and call settlers scheming thieves on this blog. It simply isn’t done.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:03:24 +0000

I agree to a point Jimmy, but I feel that posts like that will lead to partisan hackery and thoughtless name-calling that can be easily found on other sites. I appreciate other point of views, but that was simply over the top. Thanks for taking care of it Justin.

And gerryf, my Captcha is “tor foord”. WTH does that mean? lol.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:05:03 +0000

Not only did that contributor represent the views of a significant number of Americans, it was representitive of nearly the entire Islamic world. Why supress it? This blog has an excellent repultation for providing a wide spectra of political views. Nobody will hold it against Donklephant, especially when you saw MW spring up almost instanlty to rebut it.

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:56:41 +0000

Terry,

I honestly don’t mind somebody who is more sympathetic to the plight of Muslims. Even I have written on this blog that Israelis need to wake up if they want things to change with the Palestinians. But there’s a significant difference between a viewpoint like that and what was posted.

Sincerely, I wish David the best, but his views just don’t belong on this site.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:47:45 +0000

Thanks Justin. I do hope you can find a contributor who takes a more Islamic-leaning position on issues – it’s a voice that needs to be heard.

What makes Donklephant so special to me is that regardless of what side of an issue the writer falls on, it’s with an open and great respect for opposite viewpoints. I look forward to that continuing here -

By: michael reynolds

michael reynolds — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:20:18 +0000

Gerry:

I think the one thing neither Jew nor Muslim would appreciate is “ham-handed” treatment.

By: cy

cy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:54:27 +0000

I guess I can start reading Donklephant again. Oh, what a long 4 hours it was. :)

By: gerryf

gerryf — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:16:56 +0000

I saw those posts fairly soon after they went up, and all I could think was, “Oh my, this is not going to turn out well.”

That kind of stream of conscious, ramble-on take on an issue–especially an issue as contentious as the Middle East tension–rarely reads as intended.

I am sure that the contributer saw nothing wrong in it and was simply trying to post an alternative view that is not regularly expressed, but it was done in such a ham-handed way it just screamed “danger.”

And it is a shame, too, because the Middle East conflict is almost always told with a certain bias, when in truth there is plenty of culpability to go around not just among the main players, but among the nations that support the players.

I think that Obama is actually taking a broader view of the Middle East than his predecessors–and that is a key first step in eventually solving the issues there.

But I don’t hold out much hope, I am afraid.

(interesting, my captcha is MOUTH SUBTLY—-the original contributer sure did open his and not use it–that is so weird how some of them have such relevency to the topic)