You've broken the site guidelines badly in this thread. We're going to have to ban accounts that keep doing that, so please stop now.

Needless to say, this goes regardless of which side of the conflict people are supporting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I apologise, I've tried to constructively contribute and, if you do read my comments carefully, not to take side too much (can't ignore reality, either, though, that's what a substantive discussion means). Certainly I believe my comments were more substantive than the replies I've received.

I note that you allowed this thread and others to remain, which I've interpreted as we being allowed to comment... and you obviously have to expect that it will be 'lively' on such a topic and hopefully moderation can remain neutral, which is not obvious here (and yes I think your comment is harsh and rather one-sided).

Posts like "QED. Nice weasel words, by the way" are clearly against the site guidelines. That's not a borderline call.

I took a look at your other comments in the thread and I don't see what I thought I saw before. But since you've edited them all, I'm not sure whether this changed after the fact or I misread somehow.