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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

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 ...

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Even if the Iran war is over, it made its mark: the fear, killing and upheaval were all normalised | Nesrine Malik, 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 intolerable at first – quickly becomes a matter of fact. Few conflicts have demonstrated that more vividly than the war on Iran . For months it was a matter of low-grade strikes, hot and cold rhetoric, and near-conclusions to the hostilities that never came. Sharp political crisis manifested as grinding hardship and upheaval for the people. We have a peace deal now , for that be thankful, but thin

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