Hope For A New, More Peaceful, Era In The Middle East

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Families are rejoicing across Israel as the remaining living hostages have returned home after two years of Hamas captivity. Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren joins the Rundown to discuss the emotional reunions, how the Trump administration's personal relationships in the region contributed to the current developments, and whether or not he thinks this is a temporary peace, or the beginning of a new era in the Middle East. A little over two years after the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas, the war that followed it has been ended. President Trump was in Israel meeting with hostage families and spoke before the Knesset before he travelled to Egypt for a peace summit. New York Republican Representative Mike Lawler joins the Rundown to discuss his reaction to the announcement and events unfolding in the Middle East. Plus, commentary by Fox News Legal Analyst & commentator Gregg Jarrett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Shannon Bream. I'm Todd Piro. I'm Kennedy, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:07.9	Tuesday, October 14th, 2025. I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Will an emotional and historic day on which
0:14.6	Israeli hostages were returned home serve as a brief respite from fighting or turn into the dawn of a
0:20.7	new era for the Middle East.
0:22.4	This moment holds out some truly transformative hope for the Middle East, something that in my
0:28.9	long career, but also in my historical view, which is even longer, I don't know we've ever seen
0:34.5	a moment like this.
0:35.6	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:37.2	We get reaction to the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release from a member of Congress with a lot of Jewish constituents.
0:45.3	Hopefully here in America, those that have engaged in rank anti-Semitism, vile anti-Semitic
0:53.3	language, violent attacks, cease, because this is a moment for peace.
1:00.5	And I'm Greg Jera. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:09.1	Two years ago, we watched Hamas terrorists drive away with hundreds of Israeli hostages
1:14.1	after slaughtering and butchering nearly 1,200 other Israelis. Among those taken was Noah Argomani,
1:19.6	who was 25 when she was kidnapped on the back of a motorcycle, ripped from her boyfriend Avonatan
1:24.9	Orr, who watched her ride away. The IDF rescued her after 245 days in captivity. Avonatan was among the 20 released Monday, and the two were reunited, seen hugging fiercely before collapsing while still holding on to each other. Omri Miran got to play with his daughters, two-year-old Roni and four-year-oldold Alma after 738 days away from them.
1:48.8	Matan Zangakkar's mother cried as she hugged him saying,
1:51.9	Chaim Shaliy, you are my life.
1:53.7	Many Israelis gathered in what was called Hostage Square in Tel Aviv now renamed Freed Square
1:58.9	to wait for the hostages return.
2:00.5	We're finally getting everything that we've been fighting for these last two years.
2:05.0	This is what we've been doing for two years. We stand together. So when we suffer, we suffer
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