HEADLINE: Hamas, Hostages, and Middle East Turmoil: Challenges to the Trump Ceasefire Plan GUEST NAME:Jonathan Schanzer SUMMARY: Jonathan Schanzer discusses complications in the Trump ceasefire plan, including Hamas delaying the return of deceased hostage
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:23.8 | I'm John Bachelor with Jonathan Shanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
| 0:28.7 | Eventually all wars become one. |
| 0:31.1 | It's a proverb from the 19th century. |
| 0:33.5 | Is it happening in the 21st? |
| 0:35.8 | Reported in Moscow in conversation with Vladimir Putin, |
| 0:40.0 | a man named Shara sometimes, |
| 0:42.4 | sometimes Shara, |
| 0:43.8 | when he's put on a suit and made a speech |
| 0:45.8 | before the United Nations General Assembly. |
| 0:49.4 | But he's in Moscow with an enemy of NATO, |
| 0:51.7 | with an enemy of the United States, |
| 0:53.2 | with an enemy of all freedom-loving |
| 0:55.5 | lands right now. Why? Do we have any clue as to why Shara would throw away all the good |
| 1:02.0 | graces he built up and sit with Putin? Well, John, it's an interesting question, but you've got to |
| 1:07.9 | remember that the Assad regime played host to the Russians. |
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