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Hawks v talks: barriers to peace in Gaza

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The Economist

News, News & Politics

4.35K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 28 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.

1:07.9

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

1:12.3

And I'm Rosie Bloor. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

1:22.9

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

1:31.3

When's the last time you did long division?

1:33.3

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

1:40.3

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

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And what happens if you take too much?

1:59.3

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

2:16.6

It surrounds aid workers who are doling out

2:19.8

steaming liquid as fast as they can. To call this chaos, this wall of hungry people, each

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