Its a fabulous book, and I'm not just saying that because I wrote one of the essays. :)

we're just not going to let them censor us anyhow. They can try, but as we've seen from the other national examples the US is following (China in particular) there's always a way around it.

Covert - adjective (Ko-Vert):
definition: inconvenient to bomb.

I only have access to the news.antiwar.com moderation and not the other stuff, but she's not on the banned list (which for the news section is only a handful of people who posted ads for Canadian pharmacies and whatnot).

The policy is that unless you're posting advertisements and being super obscene its fine. The automated monitoring system is unfortunately extremely skeptical of posters who don't have Intense Debate accounts and often puts them in the queue as suspicious even though they're totally fine, and a few times a day someone goes through and approves them.

"The Arabs" includes some 300 million people worldwide with a myriad of ideologies and agendas. I know Israel's founding myth involves seeing their neighbors as some Borg-style hive mind, but surely you can see where outside of Israel that attitude seems a tad racist and hysterical.

I'm aware of the Israeli political leadership's argument for the Arabs as a "special case" of evil (and indeed virtually every nation in every war in the history of mankind's similar argument that their current enemy is a unique case), but since most of the recent Holocaust Day speeches have centered around civilian nuclear program in the non-Arab state of Iran, it seems totally irrelevant to the point.

As we mentioned on the blog a couple days ago there's something crazy going on with the comment system. I've been going in and "undeleting" stuff that's inexplicably getting auto deleted every chance I get but so far we haven't tracked down what's causing it in the first place.

Sorry about the hassles with it.

Even the comments here reflect just what a hot-button issue this is, and what a dangerous one it could be for Israel if it becomes a part of the dialogue in US politics. When Israeli officials complain that some Hamas figure doesn't endorse the Israeli government's "right to exist as a Jewish state" we must inevitably come up with the number of people who don't even recognize the Palestinians as a real thing.

Our old database system was screwy that way, you could make it seem like anyone you wanted wrote the articles with a few URL changes.