Roger, if Bill forces you to call him whatever, that's not courtesy, it's coercion. It may well be just, assertive of Bill's rights, correct etc, but it's not courtesy. Courtesy is when Bill says to me "Look here, old chap, I don't like being called BamBam, I want to be called Bill" and I say (and think) "Sorry, Bill, I didn't realise. Of course I'll call you Bill. Please correct me if I absent-mindedly forget". But if I say "Rack off BamBam! I'll call you what I blithering-well like!" and he says "OK -- me and my friends gonna harass the bejasus outa you and send you broke till you do what we want!" and I say "OK OK! Bill! Bill it is! Please don't punish me! I'll be a good boy!" -- well, that does not seem like courtesy to me. It might be just, but it's definitely not courtesy. It's forced compliance.

I don't think Palestinians have been mentioned a single time so far in this thread Roger until you brought them up. Are you referring to the Goldstone report on War Crimes, commissioned and adopted by the United Nations, supported by Amnesty International and Human Rights watch and anti-racists around the world, so cravenly rejected by the US Congress? Well, I daresay we will hear a lot more about that in the media (outside America, anyway) since it concerns such a flagrant humanitarian and racist injustice.