Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Shashank Joshi,

filling in for Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

shaping your world. For years the world economy has been running

cool. Supply has been plentiful. Prices have stayed low. But with America reopening and

its government pumping money into the economy, there are some worrying signs that prices

are rising. And pizza ought to be a simple pleasure, a little dough, some tomato sauce,

a bit of cheese. But pineapple topping, delicacy or abomination. We look at how that vexed

question has divided the world and broken the internet. First up though.

Yesterday, after four days of fighting, Israel's bombardment of Gaza intensified. Thousands

of Israeli troops gathered on the edge of the territory. They fired shells from tanks

in artillery pieces. The militant group Hamas continued to fire rockets at Israel. More

than 100 people have now been killed in Gaza and eight in Israel. But even if Israel has

stepped up its war on Hamas, another has been raging inside its own borders. There

was mob violence in cities across the country as tensions between Arabs and Jewish residents

boiled over. Israel's president, Riven Riven, pleaded with citizens to stop this madness.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said nothing could justify a lynching of Jews by Arabs

or Arabs by Jews. The violence within its borders and across it might be Israel's most serious

challenge for decades. Roger McShane is the economist's Middle East editor.

Roger let's focus on that. We saw some dramatic scenes from an Israeli city called Lod overnight.

What's been happening there? Is the city on the brink? Yeah, Lod is the scene of some

of the worst violence we've seen. You have Arab mobs fighting with Jewish mobs. I mean,

the place looks kind of like a war zone right now. You have hoax of burned out cars littering

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