Congratulations. I laud your ability to express your argument both with passion and reason, as you see them through your eyes. It is all that one opinion can do. A voice in support, or protest, should have the right to be expressed. It should not be executed as a sympathizer by the Gestapo, nor 'disappeared' in Chile or Pol Pot's Cambodia, and definitely not shot at in their own country while trying to protest the injustice of chemical toxins sprayed on civilians in a country thousands of miles away.

Yet

It is the clamoring voices rising up in protest around the world that leaves a crack in the doorway of my understanding.

It is the donning of scarves and flags as a protest that turns the light towards this crack in the doorway where darkness resides.

Surely that doorway, I trust I am not being overly obtuse, is the door through which one should hear the voices of the Gazan people pleading with Hamas to relent in its hostage taking?

If indeed the population of Gaza wants peace, and the relentless horror to stop, should they not turn on their government, who unjustly came to power and have ruled as religious fanatics for the past two decades?

If indeed the population of Gaza wants peace and a cessation of hostilities, should they not be the first to challenge the repressive force of Hamas?

Why can I not hear the neighboring states be as vocal as a handful of university students? I suspect it is the fear of radical Islam rampaging as terrorists in their own lands that gags their conscience.

Is Netanyahu's twisted, self-preoccupied, and Zionist-obsessed government being made useful chumps in their efforts to eradicate Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihadists for the benefit of many in the Middle East?

Should the beleaguered Gazans attack the international terrorist group Hamas?

Should Gazans press for the release of hostages?

Should neighboring countries join Israel in eliminating the poison of radical Islam as it propagates from Iran?

I do not propose to be well versed in the tumultuous history of those lands which have been conquered and subjected for millennia... to do so would be arrogance.

Yet I only hear scattered voices (recently deemed to be 'dissent'), by scarf waving students and activist wannabes.

Where are the statesmen of the Middle East?

Why are their not voices bellowing outrage at Hamas? At Hezbollah?

In distant countries the actions of the Zionists are rightly seen as excessive and genocidal, but the voices of neighboring governments do not resound with the same vehemence as a few thousand protesters in tents on a privileged Ivy League campus.

If G. Santayana believes 'historians are the greatest liars,' then I would argue that modern media and its selective pervasive portrayals comes in as a close second.

Worst of all is the detached silence and intentional, invested ignorance, of the masses. It is an even greater injustice and tragedy that shadows our humanity.

Yours is an adroitly provocative article instigating discourse, which is the purpose of Medium. Bravo and thank you