Phase transition? Gaza’s shaky peace
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire is near its end, but planning for the even more fraught second phase has hardly begun. What chance for near-term peace? We examine the harmful outcomes from the Trump administration’s slashing funding for America’s science institutions (9:45). And “I’m Still Here”, an Oscar-tipped film, confronts Brazilians with a dark past many had chosen to forget (18:35).
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every |
| 1:13.1 | weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.6 | The Trump administration's mission to trim America's federal workforce has been slashing and burning |
| 1:28.4 | its way through the country's science institutions. |
| 1:31.6 | We take stock of what's on the chopping block and assess how self-defeating it all is. |
| 1:38.4 | And for lots of reasons, Brazil never really reckoned with the horrors of its 20-year dictatorship, not as much as its neighbors, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina did. |
| 1:47.9 | Now, an Oscar-nominated film is making Brazilians sit up and look to that past. |
| 1:59.6 | First up, though, in Gaza, almost six weeks ago, a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas began. |
| 2:12.6 | Hostages were freed, the bombs stopped at last. |
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