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Since you have suffered me to describe, and have presumably understood, my disappointment for having once been taciturn at a "time of need" to my country, and to the cause of freedom, I'll continue forward to the present day, when I've a like dilemma.

Firstly, I do not know, and cannot judge of faraway events, not victims of terrorism, victims of war, victims of poverty, or those of political oppression. I oblige myself to agree with a cause of personal liberty, national charter, equality among brethren, in principal, but I ignore every detail that must otherwise embroil me in evaluations of one party's truth and another's falsehood. My celebration of just causes is an impractical one, once every just cause is juxtaposed by its cross-examiners to a like just cause, with all of its conflicting demands for resolution, on the part of some enemy of the first party. I do not celebrate unjust causes, and how does any cause seem just for all parties? Rebels and Redcoats, Cowboys and Injuns, had each a perspective that a few grams of lead would forever efface.

I'm asking then in the spirit of those who see no claim for liberty in, for instance, scattering other's playing cards and refusing to pick them up: have Israeli settlements been disbanded and moved per force? Why have Israelis been denied the opportunity to remain on land they had settled and be law abiding citizens, or resident aliens, of the new Palestinian state?