User talk:210.23.136.125

Hi 210.23.136.125, please note that while you are welcome to contribute the protocol is that if you delete or substantially modify existing text then you should poste a briefly explanatory note to the articles talk page (accessed by clicking the 'discussion' tab). Otherwise your changes will be seen as vandalism and reverted. Repeat offenders who ignore this basic protocol are then blocked from contributing. --Bob Burton 22:51, 28 Feb 2006 (EST)

- I take it that user 210.23.136.125 is in fact Ted Lapkin. Ted, I have accepted most of your edits to the AIJAC article except for those in the first paragraph. I don't agree that AIJAC represents the Jewish community. It is an unelected body, and as such, represents no one but itself (and perhaps those people who are members, and hence probably subscribe to its views). On what basis do you possibly claim to represent the jewish community in Austalia? How could you possibly know what their views are? (no, the letters page of the AJN is NOT a representative sample). AIJAC's claims to be representative are outrageous, and show a total contempt for the opinions of all other Jews in Australia.

On the second point, AIJAC is most certainly right wing, supporting as it does the policies of what are generally accepted as the right wing parties in Israeli politics (the focus of AIJAC's work).

Finally, I have left it as editor, as I think anyone who call's themselves "Editorial Chairman" is a pompous git - the person in ultimate change of content in a publication is referred to as an "editor" in english. I (could but) don't refer to myself as an "executive contributing editorial chairman" to this webpage.)

-User:Mc, March 3, 2006, 12:31am.