I'm not moralizing here, Jim - I'm only saying what works and what doesn't. If you bring previous arguments and bad feelings into a different thread, it doesn't work.

Go to the "Brigades" thread and tell me who was the first person to make mention of "Jew Hater" there. Tell me the date and time of the post, and the name of the person who poste it. The rest of us saw that "Jew Hater" reference, and it didn't make any sense to us because we hadn't seen the previous argument.

And Jim, there's a longstanding principle in debate that precedes the Internet: If you have to refer to Nazi Germany to defend your point of view in a debate, you've run out of logic and lost the debate. If you refer to Nazi Germany in criticizing Jews or Israel, you've both lost the debate and said something anti-Semitic.

-Joe Offer-