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. China's Communist Party is getting ready to celebrate its centenary

this summer. That requires turning China's messy and revolutionary past into a simple

morality tale. We look at the airbrushing of history at one contested site. And As

four-year-old Meiru founded one of Ethiopia's most famous schools, transforming the lives

of poor children. But when he first walked the 75 miles to Addis Ababa, he had 50 cents

in his pocket and no shoes on his feet. First up though. Last night there were celebrations

in the streets, as Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire after 11 days of fighting.

The conflict began after Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli police near the Al-Axamasque

in Jerusalem. Since then, at least 230 people have been killed in Gaza and 13 in Israel.

The truce was proposed by Egypt which acted as an intermediary between the two sides. It

follows mounting international pressure to bring the fighting to an end. Joe Biden,

an America's president, said it was an opportunity for progress.

I believe the Palestinian's in Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely and

to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy. My administration will continue

our quiet and relentless diplomacy toward that end.

But there are fears that the ceasefire just brings us back to a tense and unchanged status

quo. Both Hamas and Israel had achieved most of their objectives pretty early on in this

round of warfare.

Anshel Feffer is the economist Israel correspondent and he's based in Jerusalem.

Hamas basically from the start had just wanted to make the point that they were the ones

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