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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
There is a big risk of that, certainly, especially when you've got very noisy and extreme public speakers like Trump and Vance and Elon Musk. But it goes back. I can remember my mother in the Iraq war. We're going right back to the beginning of the century. She was being angry.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
She was saying, this is terrible, because she couldn't sort of switch on the television or listen to the radio without another bulletin. She said, in World War II, in the war, we knew it was serious. We knew it was serious. We knew we must all do our best. We knew we must all stand together. She said, but we were not beaten around the head with it all the time. I think that was really interesting.
Global News Podcast
Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
She felt a kind of anger that stuff had begun to roll over her. And goodness, it's 16 times worse now.
Global News Podcast
Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
I was less anxious when I had small children. The fact is that when you have a very sort of fierce domestic life going on, which I did have after the second half of the 1980s. You know, I would sort of glance at the news. I knew about the miners' strikes and I knew about things. I remember being a bit excited when the Berlin Wall came down, but I didn't feel overwhelmed by it.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
The interesting thing is I've been talking to people lately, younger relatives and friends who've got small children now or growing children at school, and they say that children come back from school and they are full of stuff, especially about the environment and how the world is burning. And this means that that kind of anxiety is can now grow and grow and grow more than it ever did before.
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Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
It's very hard now to grab back that sense that the Cold War was over, that the Soviet Union was gone, that Mandela was free. You know, there was a great deal of optimism around for a period of some years. And it's only sort of now we're in a period of great pessimism.
Global News Podcast
Israel checking Hamas claims that new body handed to Red Cross is Shiri Bibas
Can I just add one other tip? Thinking about your feet is very good, but also read novels.