As tomhow pointed out above, HN has hosted quite a few major frontpage threads about Israel/Gaza. It's not off topic here, and I've posted many explanations abo

As tomhow pointed out above, HN has hosted quite a few major frontpage threads about Israel/Gaza. It's not off topic here, and I've posted many explanations about why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20israel%20gaza%20flags&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... The problem is that this site has a limited capacity to host such discussions. The people who (quite rightly, of course) feel passionately about this topic want it to be covered far more than that capacity can tolerate. Meanwhile there are others who want it to be covered much less. It's really hard to get this explanation across to the community; no matter how many times we explain, most users don't even hear the explanation, quite apart from whether they would like/dislike it or agree/disagree. Still, if anyone wants to know how we approach this, the above link will take you to many detailed explanations that also link to the moderation principles from which our approach is derived. If you (or anyone) familiarize yourself with those explanations and still have a question that isn't answered there, tomhow and I will be happy to take a crack at it.