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The Intelligence from The Economist

Hawks v talks: barriers to peace in Gaza

The Intelligence from The Economist

The Economist

News, Daily News, Global News

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Even as Western countries band together to condemn Israel’s actions, aid remains at a trickle and the war is expanding into a central-Gazan city. We ask how the horrors might end. As with many technologies before it, many worry artificial intelligence will ultimately dumb down its human users; will it? And why so many American men are injecting testosterone.


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The Economist. Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer.

0:55.2

And I'm Rosie Bloor.

0:56.7

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:05.8

Every labor-saving technology brings an argument that farming out tasks to tech makes humans weaker in some way.

1:13.6

When's the last time you did long division?

1:16.6

We look at the evidence that artificial intelligence may, in the long run, make us more stupider.

1:22.6

And there's been a proliferation of adverts for testosterone jabs that make you look, feel and be more manly.

1:31.3

Or so they say, but how much testosterone do men really need?

1:35.8

And what happens if you take too much?

1:42.2

But first... Perhaps hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza City crowd around a fence.

1:59.0

It surrounds aid workers who are doling out steaming liquid as fast as they can.

2:05.6

To call this chaos, this wall of hungry people, each with an empty pot thrust through the fence,

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