It's all getting too convoluted, too complicated,. And succintness is not my strong suit. But I will try.

Please just SCAN my comments on Pallywood. SCAN my blog on War. Please READ my comment to Mehdi Mazloom on Palllywood. Then:

Please start a conversation here on this thread the Israel/Palestine conflict, on ANY aspect you want in which:

no one calls anyone a Nazi, no one says anyone is on PILLS, EVERYONE tries to use the LEAST scathing language possible, EVERYONE assumes JUST THIS ONCE that every conversation that happened before is water under the bridge, JUST THIS ONCE< EVERYONE tries to make one concession, no one's concession DEMANDS an IMMEDIATE concession in return.

I am under almost unenduralbe emotional stress on this website in which the personal and the professional are so hopelessly intertwined and intractable as to resemble the Israel/Palestine conflict. And I...haven't been able to make one step toward Truth and Reconciliation in many weeks...And as most of you know, I have announced my intention to leave this website in a week and a half and you all know me and you know I'm DEAD serious. And I said I HOPE to return in a couple of months. But I CAN'T do it unless I know it's worth my while, that I'm going to be able to DO something, ANYTHING, POSITIVE in our little little political blogging family that will counter the stress I'm under. Can you have this ONE conversation here under the above terms? JUST THIS ONE?

If it doesn't start happening by Monday, I write one more blog about how I became a non-Zionist and the difficulty I endured and then I will have to leave this topic, Israel/Palestine on this website and go back to the strictly Persian ones for the week and a half I have left before my "long vacation" and see if I have more success there, AS INDEED I HAVE IN THE PAST.

Robin