In this video, Peled gives the whole story... so it's not a chicken-egg conundrum
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3 ...

This is a highly credible narrative, brief enough to spend an hour on, and thorough enough to give a good historical background, that shouldn't be missed.

Some one in this conversation posted a link about Miko Peled, and I can't find it now... But I want to comment on the article/video:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3...

This is a highly credible narrative, brief enough to spend an hour on, and thorough enough to give a good historical background, that shouldn't be missed.

You've posted a similar comment several times, and I still I have no idea what your comment means...

I didn't see your post, X-man, but judging from your next post, in answer to everlynburch, I can see why your post would have been deleted; just on the first line you call "everyone here" "cultural Marxists." Labeling and name calling get tagged in most forums.

With initial sentence insulting the readers, you can be sure more than one person will feel like reporting your post, although most people are very tolerant, and are not trigger-happy to report everything.

Second, this discussion is run by "Intense Debate" and not by ICH. ICH is probably a one man band who gathers news from many places.. etc.

Mr. Guest: Whoever might want to get a link will do so in his/her post, and they will not stop because you call them hasbara, or whatver.

Are you policing the quality of posts, Mr. Guest?

That's just the point in my question; I don't think Israel really disclosed the main purpose of going into Gaza, and it didn't need to agree to the cease fire, since it was obliterating Gaza. A few more days, and the place would be swarming with Israeli troops, and a physical conquest would have been a fait 'd acomplie. For Gaza it was a war; for Israel was a mere skirmish to draw out Gaza's (Iran's really) capabilities. Rockets that could reach Tel Aviv was apparently unknown to Israel, at least not proven conclusively.

The NYT states in a recent article suggested as much: A practice run for upcoming attack on Iran.

Hamas had been shelling Israel for a long time on a regular basis, and Israel had been retaliating as well. . . every few days... and just as regularly the body count was always higher for Gaza... rarely did Israeli were harmed at all.

Why would Israel suddenly take major moves to obliterate Gaza, and then stopping short of wiping Gaza out, consent to a cease fire?

@Kratoklastes, you seem to have background not often heard around the Third Reich conversations.

Have you found a book, "Politics of Assassination" (Not Murray Clark Havens, Prentice Hall) written, I believe before 1943, covering a period of Feudal Germany, when the Feudal Lords, (Yunkers), were being assassinated one after the other... their demise attributed to a group of elite Jews whose skills had been imported by the then Germany... year's earlier....

I saw the book once, but lost it, and it's been not only out of print, but seems to have disappear from the face of the planet... So, you might have some connection to the source, based on the level of information you present...

Even if you consider what is it used for, there are functionalities which are basic, such as sorting and searching. Design can be modified without affecting database information, and streamlined methods of accessing the data.

Here are some simple examples:
Post should have a heading that describes the post;
Author should be able to tab for topics;
Users should be able to search by topic, authors, date range, and key words inside the posts' text.
User should be able to "go to page."

At present topics are limited to the issues made available here, which leave out tons of topics of public concern.

There are features which simply don't work. For example, when you go to page "Next," the system doesn't recognize if you're signed in, an one has to sign in again and again.

And on, and on...

Gimmicks can build enthusiasm for a brief period, but the enthusiasm wears out quickly, and is followed by frustration when their functionality is as severely faulty, and amateurish as these systems have been so far; and then followed by restrained anger, when not a single comments asking for improvement is implemented.

We have
a) "Comments" on random topics (such as this one),
b) "A Seat at the Table,"
c) "Question," the
d) "Citizen Briefing Book,"

They are all nice gimmicks and good ideas, but their implementation have succeeded in leaving millions of people out of it because poor technical rendition, shortness of life, inability to access, narrow band width at their server, using canned system (such as "intensedebate") which isn't even design for a database of millions of users.

The basic intent of these gimmicks are to make it easy for citizen's ideas to reach the appropriate administration personnel; thus all these different application with clever names can be made into a single one that properly organized can accomplish exactly what was intended.

Another thing is that we have not receive feedback other then very generic, and congratulatory, but no real substance. Maybe that would be premature before the inauguration...

Also, there is supposed to be a "directory" of transition member... but in fact, there was never a list of people with their jobs, and who to contact about this, that or the other.

I'll grant that maybe all this has been an experiment to test out before going live... but even as an experiment I would have expected to have a higher professional product, with features which are standards practically everywhere in Internet, but are missing here.

So, I can grade this experience so far with a hearty E for good effort; and let's see with what comes up next; particularly in the area of implementing improvement that are asked for in terms of functionality.