You're using lots of italics and pleading. I'd say, have a realistic understanding of the nullity of this particular gesture. If you want to make a gesture of

You're using lots of italics and pleading. I'd say, have a realistic understanding of the nullity of this particular gesture. If you want to make a gesture of significance, you have to get involved in actual on-the-ground politics. (Maybe you are, but from your writing, you don't sound like it.)