This is ridiculous.  I can't respond BECAUSE YOU BLOCKED ME. ChrisO, me and you have a history.  There is a strong conflict of interest here considering our past "relations" on Israel and the apartheid analogy.  After I was told to stop editing the talk discussion on 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict, I stopped.  That is what was requested, and I followed through.  Banning me from an article I didn't even edit is pretty odd in my opinion.  I understand my interactions with fellow editors might be frowned upon, but it's extremely difficult to deal with POV pushers who accuse me of being "unproductive."  You will see my original posts were nothing less than polite and appropriate, so it's not like I starting trolling the talk and spewing hate and bigotry like many people are accusing me of doing.   As I said, your tags on my user page did not ask for a response as far as I know.  If it did, I would have gladly responded.  But, if you feel my actions warrant a banning, then you are obligated to ban POV pushers who continually impose their extremist views on the article unabated: