Wikipedia:Arab-Israeli conflict editing project

Participants

• Elian (The reasons, why I deem this project necessary are described in a posting to wikipedia-l, which can be found here, my personal stand in the conflict)
• Ed Poor I volunteer as a combination of coach, cheerleader and NPOV umpire (although my personal bias will obviously leak out from time to time).
• Stevertigo (my personal stand in the conflict[?]) I'm glad to join as well. Theres no limit on space here, so its more important to have more than make less. But all this info needs to be organised in terms of a hierarchy; facts first, and then the rest. In the process of reporting facts, we must not give a political nod to either side, by underreporting some facts and overreporting others, or by adding charachter to facts for emphasis or de-emphasis.
• Uri - I hope following the guidelines will make us possible to peacefully edit the page so it is not very biased towards either of the sides, and to avoid flamewars, which have so far often been a central part of the editing process. However, Please see my objections to the General Remarks page below - you've made it fairly biased in its own right.

Pages related to Israel or Palestine

Suggestions

• A proposal for guidelines for the depiction of this conflict is here.
• general remarks of Elian
• Policy for adding links

Information sources

Israeli-Palestinian conflict external references

Articles which are seen as not neutral

list of articles, where someone feels they need to be adjusted towards a more neutral presentation. Everybody is welcome to help in neutralizing articles, to add items to the list and to issue critics!

• Palestinian infiltration
• Terrorism against Israel
• Palestinian exodus
• Palestinian refugee
• UN_Security_Council_Resolution_242
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Israeli settlements
• First Intifada
• Al-Aqsa Intifada
• Yasser Arafat
• Proposals for a Palestinian state
• Palestinian
• Palestinian Authority
• Jerusalem - question of access to the city has to be cleared.
• Jenin
• Ramallah (maybe a description of the three times repeated "great hardships" so american readers, who can go shopping 24/h can understand what a curfew means?)
• Palestinian territories
• Occupied territories

Important issues not yet treated:

• Complete Chronicle of crimes/terrorist attacks.
• Role of the water question in the conflict
• Conscientious objectorship in Israel[?] - Prison sentences for Israelis who refuse to do military service in the occupied territories, including Netanyahu[?]'s nephew:
  • Amnesty International link (http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/MDE150812002)
  • Findlaw Mariner column link (http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20021223)