# Moderators seem biased \[Moved to the Pit for continued inter-poster bickering\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820 "2010-06-03T19:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820/34 "2010-06-03T22:22:47Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I thought he had said the opposite of this - that Israel did not see themselves as an occupying power. Then the Israeli Supreme Court decision of 2008 was cited, and **FinnAgain** says - To be fair, I agreed several times that the MFA had said that Israel wasn’t in a state of belligerent occupation in Gaza, but that I thought that the Iraeli Supreme Court hadn’t certified that decision and was aware of only the 2004 SC decision where Israel certified that it was in a state of belligerent occupation WRT the West Bank and I’d assumed that since it had maintained control over Gaza, that the decision extended to Gaza as well. When the 2008 verdict was brought up, I immediately responded and admitted that I’d been unaware of it. (Although not before Amanset waited a whole 32 minutes after his post, when I hadn’t responded to anybody in the thread, to demand that I respond and talk about how they were all “waiting for me” to get back to him.) He then brought it up, I think, close to have a dozen times in two or three other posts, up to the point where he claimed that my being unaware of the 2008 verdict meant I was totally unaware of the basics of the situation. Except while he, himself had been unaware of the verdict until about 1 hour before I was, that he wasn’t going to claim that he was totally unaware about the basic facts of the matter. Now he’s bringing it up again. It seems that pointing out the one factual error he’s found from me, that I immediately agreed was an error and retracted, is a very big deal. 🆒 > [@amanset](#): > > I was disputing whether you “know your shit” about Israel. Exactly, so should you be moderated? You were ignorant of the exact same issue, and yet you claimed that it only made me totally unaware of the basic facts while you, being unaware of the very same ruling, hadn’t been totally unaware of the basic facts. Should the moderators have Warned you for that? > [@amanset](#): > > Except I never made a blanket statement. > [@Turkish flagged vessel attack \[What if?--becomes What now?\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkish-flagged-vessel-attack-what-if-becomes-what-now/540765/628): > > 1. As Israel does not see itself as an occupying power Israel does not feel the need to act as an occupying power as set by the Geneva Conventions. That’s a blanket statement. It does not become a non-blanket because you meant to imply “is not the occupying power in Gaza” rather than “is not an occupying power”. Should you be Warned for this too? > [@amanset](#): > > We were discussing Gaza. I don’t have to punctuate everything with “regarding Gaza”. No, you don’t. But if you make a claim that Israel says it is not an “occupying power” when, in fact, Israel says it _is_ an occupying power but that it is not occupying _Gaza_ then that can be pointed out. As I brought to your attention, an occupying power is an occupying power as long as they occupy _something_, even if they don’t occupy the territory in question. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderators-seem-biased-moved-to-the-pit-for-continued-inter-poster-bickering/541820)._