I hear you. I agree with your second sentence. But I'm trying to protect HN, not Israel or anyone else. This place is fragile, and when people bring the fires of the world here, it can only take so much.

I wouldn't call that kind of title edit (taking out a country name) a policy. We have an ad hoc bag of tricks and sometimes we use one and sometimes another, depending on what feels needed. Do I know how unsatisfying that sounds? You bet. Do I get how it opens us to accusations of bias? I do, better than anyone else does. But the threads are too complicated to be managed with precise formalizations.