Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post

Still puzzled by Andy’s talk of ‘tactics’ and ‘bias’.
Two different issues, the latter leading onto the former. I don't want this to turn into the usual ping pong so this is my only clarification:

Bias: In his original mesage, MA mentions 'many of the Macabbi fans will have been, or still are, IDF or reservists'. But its an unnecessary description, as MA later admits (almost) all Israelis have to be IDF or reservists, and it colours his report by insinuating that there was some pseudo-military planning involved. Such unnecessary elaboration suggets bias to me, and leads me to doubt the rest of the report. That doesn't mean I have stopped believing anything MA says, far from it, it just sows a seed of doubt in that instance.

Tactic: you tend to respond to a lot of well-thought through well written statements and points of view (lets exclude my ramblings, it relates to thers too) with 'I'm puzzled' or similar phrase, that's just a cheap way of avoiding addressing the original statement. Just IMO

You're right about the Nazi thing by the way, its not just Swale and its a really cheap shot, again just IMO