I see FARS’ ping as WOT and Iranian national security issues.
I see Nachum’s ping as US/0bama/Leftist historical records, highlighting news we may/may not get otherwise, and, as a reminder.
I see SJackson’s ping as pertinent to Israeli concerns.
Sometimes, these overlap.
I have no disagreement with the generalization or your categorizations of the four threads you brought up and even found it instructive as I had not done a comparison nor seen an analysis by others till combat-boots stepped in.(bad pun?)
I have been doing or trying to do what I do without noticing the others. (Except for reading and appreciating their posts). Luckily each one of us seem to have naturally found, chosen or gravitated to a niche, where we function at our best.
What may be the strangest is that none of us probably went out of our way to focus this way but our sources or backgrounds shaped us.
Luckily, none of us have any jealousy or quarrel with the others so it has evolved into a friendly , natural, useful separation of activity that does overlap in a complememntary broadening way for everyone’s benefit.
The other player is Alan who widens the scope of the scope and breadth of all this by posting it to his AntiMullah.com, which has more of an international list of visitors, so adds to FR’s reach in educating and informing the public.
In my opinion there appears no good reason to try to define/limit these threads more precisely rather than allowing them to dance freestyle together to the political or emotional tune of the moment.
What say you all?