The Intelligence: Gaza sparks a global culture war
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Online and on-screen reactions to the conflict reflect a subtle but important shift in Western attitudes, driven by three related forces: technology, demography and ideology. Britain’s King Charles is visiting Kenya—and will have a harder time navigating historical tensions than his mother ever did (09:56). And sleeping less tight: Paris is not the only place bedbugs are on the rise (18:24).
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| 1:00.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:07.6 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm |
| 1:12.5 | Aura Ogunbe. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.7 | Britain's King Charles is in Kenya this week, his first trip as monarch to a country of the Commonwealth, |
| 1:28.2 | a grouping that's been under strain for some years. We look into why history casts a particularly |
| 1:33.6 | long shadow over his visit. And there's been lots of buzz about a bedbug outbreak in Paris. |
| 1:41.7 | The hysteria prompted memes, TikToks, and even forced government officials to comment. |
| 1:47.2 | Well, I hope you're not squeamish because it turns out that the French capital isn't the |
| 1:51.2 | only city with a problem. |
| 1:58.9 | First up, though. An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in northern Gaza yesterday reportedly killed dozens of people. |
| 2:23.7 | videos showed a scene of devastation as search and rescue teams sifted through flattened buildings. |
| 2:33.5 | The Israeli defense forces said the strike was aimed at a prominent Hamas commander, hiding among the camp's residents. We are fighting a military organization that has embedded itself within the civilian population. |
| 2:40.0 | And they're using the civilians as their human shields. |
| 2:43.0 | They embed themselves under hospitals, schools, UN facilities, mosques, everything. |
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