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Image tagging for Image:Bullet-holes-broken-windows_YM.jpg
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Image tagging for Image:View-NNE_YM.jpg
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Image:Image:Rachel_Churgin_Blick_-2.jpg
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Image:Beit-HaSefer-Netiv-Meir_YM.jpg listed for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Beit-HaSefer-Netiv-Meir YM.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:Beit-HaSefer-Netiv-Meir YM.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Image:Beit-HaSefer-Netiv-Meir YM.jpg
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License tagging for Image:The-Cohen's-Apartment.jpg
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Ma'alot
Dear Yakov, (sorry if I am late in replying. I only noticed your note to my page now) I don't think you need detail the considerable amount of work you have done in researching the background of that tragedy. I had no doubt, when I read the page, that the person who wrote it had an intimate sense of the event and its immediate environment. Others went in there and raised the issue of its being Original Research, and if you look at my response to this, you will see that I asked for some leniency on the matter, because, though undoubtedly this page draws off original research (and therefore violates one of the pillars of Wiki policy), I personally do not think editors should use this as a pretext to wipe out the page or suppress the work done on it. To do so would, certainly, in this case, be a political act, tantamount to suppressing reportage of an incident on sheer technical grounds, because it puts into a harsh light a cause, such as that of the Palestinians, that an editor might wish to defend. I am one such editor, and yet I hope my remarks have helped to keep the page, as you wrote it, and I edited it (referring to my revision of the grammar and style), on Wiki, against those who would throw it out by an appeal to OR. The only significant edit in terms of content which I did add to it was the reference to Said's book, which did contextualize the slaughter in a chain of events in that area, namely, the napalming of Lebanon in the preceding weeks. I myself have no way of ascertaining, unlike yourself, who live in Ma'alot, whether Said's report is true. However, he was both a Palestinian, and academic of worldwide standing and a man of some integrity in trying to ascertain the truth as he saw it - bitterly disliked and often challenged as a RS on Wiki, in my view simply because his books are written from a Palestinian perspective. I did not add that remark out of malice, nor, as some have argued, in order to diminish or justify the terrorism conducted by Palestinians at Ma'alot. I added it because I believe there is a general tendency in Wiki articles to (a) contextualize Jewish violence or acts of terror as responses to, or reprisals for Palestinian terror (b) where Palestinians have conducted terroristic acts and massacres, to deprive this of context and give the impression that someone Palestinian/Arab terror is ontological, i.e., in the very nature of their existential or cultural or ethnic being, and devoid of any motivation, or political historical rationale. I.e., there is a troubling tendency to slant the whole tragic history of Israeli-Palestinian relations in terms of victim/victimizer. Terrorism is a deplorable and despicable political act, and should never find warrant or sanction in the conscience of humanity. But terrorism, however revolting, must be understood as not ontological, i.e. an expression of some ahistorical temperament, but as flowing from a congeries of complex chains of cause and motivation, such that the trip-wires of self-restraint and humanity are snapped, and the innocent become the primary targets of a conflict. States can employ terrorism, and yet be absolved, with their agents, of that charge because states are defined, classically, as entities which have a monopoly on the exercise of territorial violence in exchange for their concession of security, rights and redress from the citizenry they both disarm and are obliged to protect. The victims of state terror, especially the stateless, if they react by similar means, have no such vindication for the violence they engage in, because they lack the sanction of an institutional legal status that might entitle them to justify their acts in terms of raisons d'état. Ma'alot is justly remembered for the savagery of its terrorism. Many similar episodes that befell Palestinians aren't even registered on our historical consciousness, though, as Benny Morris has uncovered, some dozens of incidents in which scores of innocent civilians were machine-gunned took place during the war of 48, and certainly did not end there. Ma'alot is not an isolated incident. These things have happened also to many other schools and villages in the area, only they are justified as military operations. To note this is not to justify Ma'alot. It is simply to say that if one is horrified by Ma'alot, one should be horrified by all incidents of this kind, independently of the ethnic origin of the victims. Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishidani (talk • contribs) 18:29, 9 November 2007 (UTC)