I saw "Israel" in the title of this post and immediately thought "there is going to be a lengthy discussion in the comments, irrelevant to the subject of the post, where people argue about politics." Scrolled down, wasn't disappointed.
Ok, but please don't make the thread even worse with meta comments about offtopicness.
It's not surprising that an internet forum thread about Israel turns into a political, etc., flamewar—that's unfortunately the expected outcome. The important question is how to develop a site culture where that's less likely to happen.
