Once I saw the thread, I knew that it was not going to remain in Great Debates. I needed to halt the hijack long enough for the staff to consider the issue and decide which forum would best suit the thread. Unfortunately, I saw the thread moments before I had to leave for work, so whatever choice I made, (including possibly temporarily closing the thread or sending it back to MPSIMS with a hasty note to that forum’s Mods), was going to be an incomplete and troubling action.
I had no problem with questions about the OP’s views of Eretz Yisrael or how the the OP viewed international opinions on the settlements. On the other hand, I have never agreed with the notion that every poster is entitled to badger any other poster to demand a specific answer. Once a poster has responded, as long as the response is not evasive, further badgering for a different answer is simply harrassment. (Employing the word “criminal” aimed at the OP was also out of bounds, but in the limited time I had to address the matter–and with the thread having been punted across a couple of fora–I was not going to make an issue of that when I posted my admonition, hoping that my instructions would stop that tack.)