Henry Ford (1863–1947) was an American industrialist and is best known for being the founder of the Ford Motor Company. Once asked what he thinks about history and politics, he very inelegantly said: “History is one damn thing after the other and politics is one damn thinker or one damn idea after another.” Why I am reminded of his reply is the frustration I feel in the inability of politics, both domestic and global, in becoming an answer to improve the overall human conditions. In a world in which everyone is under the scrutiny of everyone, the democratic world today commits almost similar mistakes and crimes that it accuses the undemocratic world of committing. Israel strikes Tehran and kills Ismail Haniyeh. In the eyes of the world this act of war violates no international law and no UN Charter which is an instrument of law that all UN member states must follow. Is Israel not a UN member state?
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