The Intelligence: Israel’s Gaza offensive
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The long-anticipated invasion is not the expected blitzkrieg; we ask how a longer, more cautious war will be fought. Kemal Ataturk is still wildly popular a century after he founded modern Turkey—so instead of undoing his legacy, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is simply claiming it (10:57). And an ode to Canada’s “long dash”, a time-marking tradition that has now gone silent (21:15).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
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| 1:00.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:07.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:10.6 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:22.6 | Celebrations in Turkey this weekend marked 100 years since Kemal Ataturk created the modern Turkish Republic. |
| 1:29.3 | Many view the country's current leader, Bacheb Tayyip Erdogan, as a kind of anti-Ata Turk. |
| 1:35.3 | We discover it's more complicated than that. |
| 1:39.3 | And we pay tribute to the unifying force of a simple marking of time, the Canadian broadcasters' daily Long Dash. |
| 1:47.0 | First up, though. |
| 2:03.6 | In Gaza over the weekend, Israel's offensive expanded enormously. Israel's army said it had carried out strikes on 600 sites in 24 hours. |
| 2:24.3 | Authorities in Gaza accused the Israelis of targeting civilians, including striking near one of the main remaining operational hospitals. |
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