It's perfectly clear that bobad has no place on this forum. Every intervention he makes below the line creates a hostile atmosphere. I'm sick of one mod in particular blaming the "mess" on the rest of us, even suggesting that we may after all be Jew haters (!) and pretending that nothing can be done because we respond. I can't imagine any decent human being failing to respond to being called a Jew hater, Joe Offer. If that behaviour isn't sanctioned by the people who run the forum then they can scarcely criticise anyone else's behaviour, because it doesn't get as bad as that. I'm beginning to suspect that the mod in question is actually enjoying this unseemly spectacle so that he can eventually turn the thing right round, making bobad look like the injured innocent he most definitely isn't, and childishly blaming the whole sorry mess on his usual suspects, disingenuously wringing his hands as he goes. I can't think of anything more downright despicable that bobad's throwing around of the term Jew hater at the merest hint of any standpoint on the Middle East he disagrees with. He wouldn't survive ten seconds in any pub I've ever been in with talk like that, and I only ever go into nice pubs. You can't mend him. His permanent removal would sweeten the atmosphere here immeasurably. And that's a promise.

Steve (lifelong campaigner against racism in all its guises and about as far removed from being a Jew hater as it's possible to be)