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