Quote SmokeyTA="SmokeyTA"... I do think people, like yourself, who want to be able to criticise what they want, but see anyone judging them for their standpoints as shutting down the debate, as huge hypocrites ...'"
I didn't.
You, however, launched yourself on here as, in effect, supporting a classic way of stifling debate about the behaviour of the state of Israel.
You could have posted something about the opening post. You didn't. You posted your 'prediction' of how the thread would turn into something that, at that point anyway, it had not become. In so doing, you – and you alone – changed the nature of the thread.
Well done.