"I am not confident that I at least, know more about the subject than I hear on TV or read in the newspapers."

Well, I know that I can get to know a lot more with the help of the internet than I ever would from TV and newspapers. You've got to take care to try to tell the difference between information and misinformation, but that applies to newspapers and TV.

And from what I have seen of the American media through the net and cable TV, the impression comes across that you are getting a very different picture of what is going on than you do from the mainstream press in England - and that is mostly (to say the least) papers which tend to be pretty sympathetic with Israel in general.

But then that's a subjective judgement - I don't read all the Engish papers by a long way, and my reading of the US papers is obviously still more limited, and the same goes for the US TV news bulletins I've seen.

And inevitably there is relevant information that gets squeezed out of all print or broadcast media in all countries, or that gets overlaid by what's happened since.

If we know a lot about a topic, and have strong opinions (which isn't by any means the same thing), it's likely that anything we read here will change them too much - definitely not the opiniuons, and very likely not the information contained in links.

But if we aren't too sure what we think, this is a good chance to help to sort out our ideas and extend what we know. And even if we don't change our views, it doesn't hurt to find out a few more facts.