The 7 news you need to know this Thursday morning, October 12

Hello good morning!.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
11 October 2023 Wednesday 11:22
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The 7 news you need to know this Thursday morning, October 12

Hello good morning!

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict generates very conflicting positions. The Hebrew response to the unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas will be seen by some as legitimate defense and by others as disproportionate revenge. And start again.

A colossal knife. It is confirmed that Israel's intention is to carry out a ground operation that splits the territory of Gaza in two, with its troops acting as a huge sharp blade. The dilemma arises as to whether this will extend the conflict to other borders.

Those who rule. The leaders of Hamas in the Gaza Strip are people who embody radicalism and pragmatism at the same time. Able to take their children to Catholic schools, in the Palestinian conflict they are betting on everything... or nothing.

Guard down. Israel's intelligence community, made up of three major agencies, has become overconfident in light of last weekend's terrorist attacks. It is not the first time that the Hebrew information services fail.

Social housing seems to be experiencing a bubble similar to the one that burst in 2008, only this one has every appearance of not leading to disaster. Construction has increased by 80% in the last year. Madrid and Catalonia take the cake.

Work more hours to be able to compete with the e-commerce giant: Amazon. The large Spanish distribution companies beg to be allowed to extend hours to defeat this Goliath. In Catalonia, it is already formally claimed.

What is happening with the unaccompanied minors who are arriving in large numbers in the Canary Islands is not child's play, far from it. An agreement has allowed the distribution of 360 of them among all the autonomous communities of the country.

Populists, nationalists and right-wingers. This is the candidacy of the Law and Justice party that wants to win the Polish elections for the third consecutive time and complete its country project with laws so ultra-conservative that they conflict with the principles of the EU.

Jesse Armstrong, creator of the 'Succession' series

“Children of billionaires always find a way to move forward.” Read it here.

Almighty arm. Rafael Nadal, at the moment the best Spanish tennis player of all time and one of the best in the world, assures that he works hard to reappear at the Australian Open in the best possible shape after a year away from the courts.

Combinations of the past. Google has already implemented a system, known as Passkeys, to eliminate the countless passwords needed to access accounts. The system simplifies and uses biometric resources for unlocking.

Virtual continent. What would happen if Europe did not exist? The thinker Yuderkys Espinosa and the visual artist Katia Sepúlveda imagine in an art exhibition a world where the traces of European colonization never materialized.

Frank Anderson, psychiatrist; pioneer of Internal Family Systems therapy

“We all suffer traumas and we all have the capacity to overcome them.” Read it here.

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