Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-05-18 Kach and Kahane Chai - terrorism

Mediation Case: 2006-05-18 Kach and Kahane Chai - terrorism
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Request Information

 * Request made by: Black Butterfly 11:33, 18 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Where is the issue taking place?
 * Kach_and_Kahane_Chai


 * Who's involved?
 * Myself and user User:Kuratowski's Ghost


 * What's going on?
 * The initial wording of the section on terrorist attacks associated with Kahanists contained information that, while (potentially) accurate seemed intended to bias the reader in favour of the Kahanists, or at least against the Palestinians. While the initial wording denied Kahanist involvement it explicitly - and IMO unnecessarily - referenced Palestinian terrorism in needlessly emotive words ("This is despite the fact that killing random innocent people is a common form of Palestinian terrorism against Jews.", "...targeted unarmed civilians, often including young children.").
 * I removed this and replaced it with more neutral phrasing - removing the first sentence as it seemed to have little purpose, and changing the second to "terrorist attacks aimed at Israelis". While the first remained untouched the second has since been reverted and I have been accused of "whitewashing" Palestinian terrorism (how referring to terrorist attacks against Israelis qualifies as whitewashing I am unsure).


 * ''What would you like to change about that?
 * Ideally I would like my wording to stay :-). If that is not possible (and I do feel mine is NPOV), some sort of compromise would be sufficient.

Mediator response

 * I have offered to mediate this discussion and am waiting for both users response. Until then I have marked it as taken on the main page. Black Butterfly and Kuratowski&#39;s Ghost please indicate your acceptance (or otherwise) of my mediation on the article's discussion page (I posted a note there too) or here. Thankyou, --Tmorton166 12:03, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Both parties have agreed and the discussion is progressing on the articles talk page. -- Tmorton166 (Errant Emote) talk 11:25, 20 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I am closing this now, there seems to be no response from one of the parties. -- Tmorton166 (Errant Emote) talk 19:02, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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