I have been accused in multiple diaries over the past few days of a lot of ridiculous bullshit, so I feel the need to clarify a few things with this diary. In the future, when I am accused of these sort of things, I'll just tell people to go read this. So:
* I am not, never have been and never will be a supporter of violence from anyone. I am a pacifist.
* Because of that, I don't justify the actions of Israel, Palestine, Hezbollah or anyone else when they feel the need to kill people to get what they want.
* I am an American and a Jew. That doesn't make me an Israeli. I have never been to Israel, I have no plans to ever go to Israel and, quite frankly, if Israel disappeared tomorrow I'd not be especially happy about it, but I wouldn't exactly be in mourning either. Most of my life is spent not thinking about Israel.
* I have no tolerance for bigots of any shade and I will not countenance bigotry on Daily Kos.
* I am not a troll, I am just very opinionated.
* I came back after posting a GBCW diary only because many people begged me to. The level of discourse here has gotten so low at this point that I am beginning to rethink that decision. If I do decide to leave, I will not make the mistake again of posting such a diary, I'll just be gone and this time, I won't come back. Period.
* I work for no one but myself.
When idiots make posts like this, and get away with it, I feel like this place is becoming far less friendly than it should be.
However, since, as some people maintain, I am a troll, I post the poll below to get consensus. If general consensus is that I'm a troll that should be banned, I know where I'm not wanted. If not, I have a handy place to refer people from now on.
P.S. Yes, I realize this diary is a lot of self-important crap.