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 :HG, while I appreciate your measured tone, I would also appreciate your ceasing to call for unnamed editors to ""recuse"" themselves. It isn't merely that the suggestion is without merit (though it is), nor that you have no standing to ask such a thing (though you don't), but I think the Anti-Israel folks have done a rather excellent job of silencing those who oppose them already. They have no need of aid from those who are, or who are posing as, moderates.   "