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Re:Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels by gnosis on Sunday February 26, 2012 @07:37AM (#3635484)
From the HN Guidelines[1]:

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Re:Israel to destroy Palestinians' solar panels by davidw on Sunday February 26, 2012 @08:47AM (#3635604)
Without standing up and saying "no", there is no communication to new users of the do's and don'ts of the site, which including overtly political articles like this.

Put another way, the number of people interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its importance in world events, far exceeds the number of people, and import, of "hacker news", so were the site to open its gates completely, articles like this would completely overwhelm what we came here for.

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