I was wondering about SV's work on the Exodus from Lydda article and her warring with pro-Israel editor Jaakobou
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=288564782"Could it be that SV is actually moving away from her pro-Israel pushing POV of the past?" I wondered, thinking perhaps the criticism here of her enablement of extremists like Zeq had hit home.
And then I saw her proposals at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_tal...oposed_decisionIs it too cynical to think that SV decided to, for the first time, take action against pro-Israel POV pushers as a mechanism to recast herself as "neutral" in the I/P topic area so that she could make a last minute intervention in an attempt to save Jayjg from a topic ban (or worse?)
This reminds me of her last minute intervention in the Mantanmoreland case where she generated enough confusion to save Mantanmoreland from ArbCom imposed sanctions. Of course, that didn't end so well. SV's reasonable doubt argument fell apart days later when Checkuser proved Mantanmoreland was indeed a sockpuppeteer (a revelation that destroyed what was left of SV's credibility for some time). I wonder if SV manages to save Jay's bacon this time the whole thing will come crashing down again?
This proposal seems like nothing more than an attempt to get her buddies off the hook and create an unworkable mechanism. Talking about neutrality in the I/P realm is an absurdity as no one who attempts to act neutrally on those pages is viewed as such by both sides, at least not for very long and indeed, Jayjg and his cohorts have long insisted that all they are trying to do is defend NPOV - a falsehood SV has long supported.