The Intelligence: Israel and Hamas’s hostage deal
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After weeks of negotiations, Hamas has agreed to release some hostages. In exchange, there will be a four-day pause in fighting. But then what? Americans really love their cars and dependence on them is making the country fairer (09:34). And what Netflix’s latest spin-off reveals about the changing trends in TV (15:56).
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| 0:54.0 | One of the tropes about Americans that tends to be true is that we love our cars. |
| 1:02.0 | Is it the design of cities and suburbs that created the new world? that we |
| 1:05.0 | examine why the design of cities and suburbs that created the need for them or did the passion for them drive those designs. |
| 1:08.0 | We examine why the love affair will only grow deeper. |
| 1:12.0 | And did you ever watch Squid Game? |
| 1:15.0 | The hit series was framed around a contest where one wrong move would cost a player their life. |
| 1:21.0 | Now, amidst a growing demand for unscripted TV, Netflix is |
| 1:26.0 | spinning this off into a reality show. |
| 1:31.0 | But first. |
| 1:37.0 | After. |
| 1:41.0 | After After several weeks of negotiations, Israel has agreed to a hostage deal with Hamas that |
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