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  What to do with Political Suffering: Solidarity Amid US-Israel-Iran War By: Jatin Mathur As the world heads towards wars with the US and Israel attacking Iran, humanitarians would certainly be concerned about peace and humanity. Recent geopolitical actions have been depressing to humanitarians, whether it is bombings targeted at civilians in Gaza, not leaving children and sexual exploitation of children by cultural and political elites in the Epstein files or political imprisonment of people across nations. We all have to face this question of what to do with this political sadness? To me (as a sociologist), these incidents might lead to an awareness of the oppressive structures and exploitation of human agency by elites; however, as a human being with empathy, it leaves me with helplessness and hopelessness. I would not say I do not have probable answers or solutions to these concerns, part of the problem lies in the inability to prepare conditions for a solution to work. In my ...