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It is recognised that this is a fraught topic for any number of you posting here. Some of you will have family in Israel or Palestine. Some of you will have connections to either side of the conflict. What you need to understand is that this site has rules governing posting standards and the appropriate way to talk to other posters, and you will abide by them.

How this interacts with this thread is that the following will result in your post being deleted, with a recurrence of the same behaviour resulting in (depending on severity) a threadban for a week and a day off:
  • direct labelling of someone as anti-semitic or a terrorist sympathiser for posting that is merely critical of Israel's response over time. Israel has the right to defend themselves from violence, but that does not mean that Israel has carte blanche to attack disproportionately towards people under their care.
  • deliberate goading or flippant responses, designed to get people reacting to your posting emotionally.
  • abuse.
  • attempts to turn this into a Left vs Right shitfight.
  • Use the word 'Nazi' in here, you had better be able to justify it in the post you're making and the comparison had better be apt. Godwin's law is in full effect for the purposes of this thread; if you refer to Nazis, you've lost whatever argument you're involved in.
  • Any defense of Hamas' actions on the basis of justification. There's no justification for genocide, regardless of whether or not they have the power to do so.
Please recognise that this is a difficult time for all involved, and some level of sensitivity is absolutely required to permit discussion to flow. From time to time, mods will reach out to specific posters and do some welfare checks; we may even give posters who get a bit too involved some days off to give people some time to cool down. This is not a reflection on you as a poster, merely that this is an intense subject.

I get that this is a fairly intense topic about which opinion can diverge rather significantly. If you feel you cannot be respectful in your disagreement with another poster, it is frequently better to refuse to engage than it is to take up the call.

From this point, any poster who finds themselves directly insulting another poster will find themselves receiving a threadban and an infraction, with each subsequent reoccurance resulting in steadily more points added to your account.

It has also become apparent that this needs to be said: just because someone moderates this forum that does not hold them to a different standard of posting than anyone else. All of us were posters first, and we are allowed to hold opinions on this and share them on this forum.

Treat each other with the respect each of you deserve.

Maggie5 Gone Critical Anzacday Jen2310
 
Found this on Politics Forum.
http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

A bit of fun - where you stand on the political landscape (your political leanings)
Take the test, here is mine - seems my leanings are close to Gandhi which I don't mind.
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Don't know much about Dutton, is he a modern day conservative nutter?
If Dutton get ,s his hand on you look out he is a rabid right winger,I live in his electorate and I know.
He never smiles and he does not a sense of humour I think he is aiming to be Australias answer to Donald Trump and god knows I don,t think the world needed a 1st one let alone another.
 
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Just came this thread and you have sum him up to a tee.
Looking more than likely he will be our next PM.
Mal is a dead man walking on the numbers yesterday. Can’t possibly survive.
I’m a leftie, well known, so I’m having a real giggle at the party that “doesn’t knife sitting Prime Ministers”.
Well, #2 knifing is very very close.
Right now I think a good 4 week campaign by the ?Libs could keep Shorten out of the Lodge.
Scare campaign will be easy to apply given some of Shortens stumbles lately.
But Dutton...will handus a landslide victory.
So, c’mon Libs, do the right thing by the country. Vote 1 Dutton!
 

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