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Even if the Iran war is over, it made its mark: the fear, killing and upheaval were all normalised | Nesrine Malik

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Even if the Iran war is over, it made its mark: the fear, killing and upheaval were all normalised | Nesrine Malik
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As the world waited for rational outcomes from irrational players, the people being bombed were forced to adjust to the fact of terror as part of daily life“Humans take a lot of killing,” wrote Frank McCourt in Angela’s Ashes. As bleak a phrase as it is, McCourt was talking about resilience, how much poverty and abuse a person can withstand and still survive. But the other side of human capacity for pain is how much can be forced upon us and normalised. It is bewildering how war – shocking and

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