There are times when silence becomes complicity — and this is one of them.

The most brutal of examples is Hamas. What Hamas has done is not resistance, not liberation, not justice. No.

It is cruelty, pure and unrelenting. The slaughter of civilians, the deliberate terrorizing of innocents, the use of children as human shields — these are shocking crimes against every moral code known to humankind.

Hamas thrives on suffering. It weaponizes grief. It turns human beings into pawns in a cynical game of perpetual war. This is not the face of freedom — it is the face of fanaticism.

Here in the U.S., we see this in our own politics. Every day. Just look at the citizen videos posted on social media. All over our country.

And yet, the world looks away.

We scroll, we sigh, we mutter “it’s complicated” — as if that could absolve us. Yes, of course, we look away because there is so much to look at. It’s overwhelming.

But really, we look away because the truth burns too bright. Because if we let ourselves see it fully, we’d have to confront our own moral cowardice. It’s easier to hide behind ideology than to name evil. Easier to debate nuance than to face the unbearable reality of innocent lives erased.

We’ve become so afraid of taking sides that we forget there is a right side — the side of humanity itself. The side that says slaughtering the innocent can never be justified. That terror is not resistance, and murder is not freedom.

Looking away is the quiet betrayal of our age. Each time we do, cruelty gathers strength. Each time we silence our outrage, evil learns it can act with impunity.

To be human is to see — and to refuse to look away.
To be moral is to speak, even when our voices tremble.

All inhumanity must be named — loudly, clearly, and without hesitation. That means Hamas. And so many other evils we see daily in the name of politics.

Because when we stop naming evil, it wins.

And we lose something far greater than the battle for peace — we lose our own souls.