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2: HEADLINE: Gaza Ceasefire, Hamas Regeneration, and Iran's Tactical Retreat GUEST NAMES: David Daoud, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: David Daoud analyzes the Gaza ceasefire, noting Hamas refuses to disarm and is executing rivals to reassert control. He views the truc

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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HEADLINE: Gaza Ceasefire, Hamas Regeneration, and Iran's Tactical Retreat GUEST NAMES: David Daoud, Bill Roggio SUMMARY: David Daoud analyzes the Gaza ceasefire, noting Hamas refuses to disarm and is executing rivals to reassert control. He views the truce as a tactical lull in the "long war," expecting released senior prisoners to help regenerate terrorist leadership. Iran, which skipped the summit, is seen as engaging in a tactical retreat to staunch losses and rebuild proxies, letting adversaries adopt a false sense of victory.

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This is CBSI and the world. I'm John Batchel. Bill Rajo, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

0:30.3

senior fellow, joins me as my colleague and co-host. We're looking at the day after the meeting

0:35.5

of the leadership of Europe, the Arab world, and the Islamic world at Sharmal Shake to congratulate and celebrate the ceasefire in Gaza with the President of the United States at the middle of the conversation at Sharmal Shake.

0:51.0

That's a resort in Egypt.

0:53.1

And the significance here is that whatever was

0:56.4

happening before is now interrupted by terms, not all of which we have. We do have the ceasefire

1:03.2

talk. We do have the Gossans can return to Gaza City talk. But I welcome David Diyud of the

1:10.4

Foundation for Defense of Democracies,

1:12.8

who's been our guide on the several battlefronts for years now. We turn to the Gaza Front immediately.

1:21.1

There's no transparency here. It's fog of war. We know what we know. For example, the Financial

1:27.2

Times is reporting from Jerusalem within

1:29.7

these hours. Israeli soldiers killed several Palestinians in northern Gaza a day after U.S. President

1:36.5

Donald Trump touted the end of the two-year war. There are also anecdotal reports of Hamas gunmen

1:43.8

executing or killing those said to be either

1:48.3

collaborators or gang members looking to profit from the returning Gazans.

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