The Intelligence: Israel’s Gaza offensive
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 30 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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| 0:42.4 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:47.2 | Every weekday we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:57.3 | Celebrations in Turkey this weekend marked 100 years |
| 1:00.8 | since Kemal Ataturk created the modern Turkish Republic. |
| 1:04.3 | Many view the country's current leader, |
| 1:06.3 | Baychep Tayyip Erdogan, as a kind of anti-Ataturk. |
| 1:09.6 | We discover it's more complicated than that. |
| 1:13.9 | And we pay tribute to the unifying force of a simple marking of time. |
| 1:18.8 | The Canadian broadcasters daily long dash. |
| 1:27.2 | First up, though. |
| 1:42.5 | In Gaza over the weekend, Israel's offensive expanded enormously. |
| 1:47.2 | Israel's army said it had carried out strikes on 600 sites in 24 hours. |
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