Bibi driver: battles led by and within Israel
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The Economist
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🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The ceasefire in Gaza is in tatters; the campaign against Hizbullah is flaring up again. Yet the most telling battles are those happening inside Israel. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, is coolly dealing with the fitful aggression of her northern neighbour (10:25). And our obituaries editor pays tribute to Richard Fortey, a fossil obsessive who spent a career telling the world about trilobites (16:50).
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| 0:45.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
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| 0:48.2 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:53.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:00.0 | Many world leaders are finding Donald Trump's presidency something of a challenge. |
| 1:02.0 | One of the few who seems to be thriving is Mexico's Claudia Seenbaum. |
| 1:06.0 | How is she managing that? |
| 1:08.0 | And trilobites were wildly diverse creatures that filled every watery ecological niche for a quarter of a billion years. |
| 1:18.7 | No one was more fascinated by their fossils than Richard 40. |
| 1:22.7 | Our obituaries editor reflects on a life spent educating the world about them. |
| 1:31.3 | Music editor reflects on a life spent educating the world about them. But first... Almost a week ago, Israel resumed air strikes in Gaza, |
| 1:52.0 | hitting what it said were Hamas terror targets. |
| 1:55.0 | Soon after, ground troops were on the move again, |
| 1:58.0 | definitively ending a fragile ceasefire in the territory. |
| 2:05.6 | Yesterday, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry reported that more than 50,000 people, |
| 2:11.6 | fighters and civilians, had been killed since the war began. But for Israel, that's just one front on which fighting has flared, both outside and inside |
| 2:29.3 | the country. |
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