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8: Regional Powers React to Tenuous Gaza Ceasefire and Hostage Deal. Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani discuss how the Gaza agreement is viewed regionally as a tenuous ceasefire and hostage deal, not a path to peace. Saudi Arabia was displeased, seeking a long-

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Regional Powers React to Tenuous Gaza Ceasefire and Hostage Deal. Bill Roggio and Husain Haqqani discuss how the Gaza agreement is viewed regionally as a tenuous ceasefire and hostage deal, not a path to peace. Saudi Arabia was displeased, seeking a long-term Palestinian state solution. Egypt supported the quiet to prevent domestic instability and refugee influx. Conversely, Qatar and Turkey championed the ceasefire because they are invested in Hamas and want its political and military structure to survive.
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0:30.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:37.0

I welcome my good colleagues, Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, keeping the Long War

0:38.6

Journal, and Ambassador Hussain O'Connor of the Hudson Institute, former ambassador

0:43.8

from Pakistan to the United States.

0:46.6

The ceasefire in place in Gaza has been interrupted, we're told, anecdotally, by the IDF and

0:53.7

by men who present themselves as Hamas.

0:58.1

However, all ends of wars are ragged, especially civil wars and civil strife similar to Gaza.

1:05.4

So I turn to you, Mr. Ambassador, not what's in it for Gaza, not what's in it for Israel,

1:13.1

but at the meeting last week,

1:20.2

the extraordinary meeting is Sharmal Sheikh, a resort on the Red Sea in Egypt. The attendance was impressive, who was represented, what countries were participating, Europe, Islamic States, Arab

1:27.0

States, Middle Eastern states.

1:29.6

All of this was a moment for the President of the United States to emphasize a utopian future

1:37.5

in which Gaza will be rebuilt and people will live in harmony. So I ask you specifically, what's in it for a major capital that will have much to say

1:48.4

about the next 10 and 20 years?

1:50.6

That is Saudi Arabia, particularly at Riyadh, Mohammed bin Salman.

1:55.1

What's in it for Mohammed bin Salman to have a ceasefire in Gaza now?

1:59.4

Good evening, too.

2:01.3

Good evening.

2:02.6

We must remember that Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman was not present in Sharma's Sheikh.

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