20-05-2014, 02:47 PM
Since you asked for other's opinions, I think you should also consider the potential loss of the rational discussion that characterizes most of the discussion on this forum. If you open up a thread that invites the lunatics to bark at the moon, then they will, and the otherwise excellent reputation of this site might suffer.
That being said, perhaps there are some very narrow issues that might be addressed without opening up accusations of anti-Semitism. For instance, we criticize the CIA regularly in this forum, and yet we're not "anti-American" (Cynicism and patriotism are 2 different animals). We talk about the Russian government's increasingly overt presence in the Ukraine, and no one charges us (at least) with "wanting to wipe out Russians." Perhaps if the issues are framed narrowly enough, and the contributors careful enough, we could have a rational discussion of (for instance) the Mossad, or of certain specific other activities of the Israeli government, without the hysteria.
That being said, perhaps there are some very narrow issues that might be addressed without opening up accusations of anti-Semitism. For instance, we criticize the CIA regularly in this forum, and yet we're not "anti-American" (Cynicism and patriotism are 2 different animals). We talk about the Russian government's increasingly overt presence in the Ukraine, and no one charges us (at least) with "wanting to wipe out Russians." Perhaps if the issues are framed narrowly enough, and the contributors careful enough, we could have a rational discussion of (for instance) the Mossad, or of certain specific other activities of the Israeli government, without the hysteria.