A farewell to arms? Hamas considers its options
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Opinions of Hamas are shifting—among its international backers, in Gaza, even within its affiliates’ ranks. If it opts to disarm, what would happen next? A new analysis suggests using a sense of risk to explain markets’ movements might be focusing on the wrong emotion. And our final “Archive 1945” instalment relives VJ day through The Economist’s coverage at the time.
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:15.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.1 | Thank you. fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. It's easy to imagine that the markets are driven largely by one feeling, greed, |
| 0:30.8 | but some new research suggests that considering the effects of a different emotion is |
| 0:35.1 | pretty instructive. |
| 0:42.3 | And it's the final installment of our Archive 1945 project, which relives the end of the Second World War through the Economist's coverage at the time. |
| 0:47.3 | 80 years ago, precisely, we wrote about VJ Day, the end of a a war but the beginning of a nuclear age. |
| 1:02.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:05.0 | The top of the earth from the shudda last month, reporting on the ongoing suffering of Palestinians. |
| 1:22.6 | People are falling to the ground from the severity of hunger, he says. |
| 1:33.2 | In one of his reports, he broke down and couldn't go on. |
| 1:40.2 | A bystander says to him, keep going on us. |
| 1:42.8 | You are our voice. |
| 1:46.0 | He did keep going, despite the many threats, |
| 1:49.4 | intimidating phone calls from Israeli agents that would begin with, shut up on us. |
| 1:54.1 | On Sunday, he was targeted in an airstrike. |
| 1:56.9 | He and four members of his team were killed. |
| 2:00.0 | That makes 186 Palestinian journalists killed since the fighting began. |
| 2:05.6 | Even after nearly two years of war and devastation, Israel continues to ramp up pressure in Gaza, |
| 2:11.6 | on Gazans, ostensibly in the name of defeating Hamas. |
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