[zunky]

Since when did hacker news became a source for politics? That is what the NY Times, Fox News,and CNN are for. Please don't let HN become one of those sites that entices hatred towards another country or a certain group of people. This post should be deleted as it has nothing to do with HN.

[nailer]

pg has steadfastly refused to limit topic discussion beyond the wide ranging and vague 'anything that may be on interest to hackers'.

[lotharbot]

In the guidelines [0], immediately after the aforementioned vague comment, pg gives some specific restrictions:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[meric]

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I don't think they'd cover this on TV news.

[ak39]

:)

[JS_startup]

Not sure why 'hackers' would care about Israel-Palestine drama

[rdtsc]

They might not but they might care about Solar panels. That is probably why it was submitted.

[hamoid]

Because they like thinking about solutions to difficult problems?

[praptak]

> Since when did hacker news became a source for politics?

Since politicians started messing with technology? Btw, the article presents a case thereof, although maybe not to a degree justifying it being on HN. Anyway the implication "if it's politics, it doesn't belong on HN" is obviously false.