The Iran war has reached a tragic new phase: the fear, killing and upheaval are all normalised | Nesrine Malik

As the world waits for rational outcomes from irrational players, the people being bombed will adjust to the fact that terror is now 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.