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American Prestige

News - Gaza Ceasefire Tenuous, US Strikes More “Drug Boats,” Saudi State Visit

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Rest assured, no one on the AP team has any undeclared tattoos. In this week’s news roundup: In Israel-Palestine, Gaza’s so-called ceasefire holds after another weekend of Israeli strikes (1:36), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) orders Israel to allow more humanitarian aid (8:16), and reports emerge of a plan to partition Gaza (11:48) as J.D. Vance arrives in Israel and the Knesset advances West Bank annexation votes (14:21); Donald Trump looks set to host Mohammed bin Salman for the Saudi crown prince’s first U.S. visit since the Jamal Khashoggi murder (18:36); Afghanistan and Pakistan agree to a fragile ceasefire after cross-border clashes (21:16); Myanmar’s junta retakes a key commercial town and resumes its offensive (23:47); Japan elects hard-right Takaichi Sanae as its first female prime minister (27:27); in Sudan, drone strikes delay the reopening of Khartoum’s airport (29:59); new data shows jihadist groups tightening their grip across West Africa (31:19); the Trump-Putin-Zelensky saga takes several new turns, with canceled summits and contradictory sanctions (34:52); Rodrigo Paz wins Bolivia’s presidency and pledges to restore ties with Washington (41:28); the U.S. reportedly trades MS-13 informants for access to Nayib Bukele’s mega-prison in El Salvador (43:39); two more U.S. drone attacks hit alleged “drug boats,” one in the Pacific, as the head of Southern Command steps down (45:44); and the U.S. and Australia seal a new minerals deal to counter China (50:28). Subscribe now and check out our series on Silicon Valley with Margaret O’Mara here.

Transcript

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Find the link in our show notes.

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That's kind of conversation to your soul.

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That's conversation.

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To your soul. I'm the night. Hello, Hello, prestige heads, and welcome to here, as with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson, and we are excited to bring you the news.

0:43.3

But before we do some quick housekeeping, first of all, I wanted to point everyone once again to the Discord server.

0:48.9

We've been getting a lot of signups in the last few weeks. Things are really popping off.

0:53.3

So if you like talking to fellow

0:55.2

prestige heads about international affairs and other things, check out the Discord server. Also,

1:01.0

as always, we really appreciate all of your support. And if you can, please consider subscribing

1:06.9

to the show. We've got some exciting things coming up soon, and we think that all of our

1:11.7

subscribers will really enjoy them. And finally, before we jump into the news, I said recently that

1:17.1

I was going to start highlighting some of the series. I wanted to point people to our series on

1:22.1

the history of Silicon Valley. Obviously, tech is a kind of influential sphere these days, and we did a great series with Margaret O'Mara on the history of Silicon Valley. Obviously, tech is a kind of influential sphere these days. And we did a great series

1:29.1

with Margaret O'Mara on the history of Silicon Valley. So please check that out at American

1:34.5

Prestigepot.com. Just click on the series, I don't know, toolbar, bar at the top of the page,

1:40.7

bookpark, I don't know, whatever the hell it's called, and U.X. And you could check out that along with a bunch of our other series.

1:47.7

All right, Derek, let's jump in.

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Let's start with Israel Palestine.

1:51.5

And let's talk about the ceasefire, which does seem to be holding despite pretty

1:57.2

brutal violence over the weekend.

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