Prof. John Mearsheimer on Trump's Knesset Speech, the Israel/Hamas Ceasefire, Russia and Ukraine, and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Monday, October 13th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:27.5 | Tonight, President Trump flew today to give a speech in Tel Aviv to the Israeli Knesset as a ceasefire deal was finalized between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:36.9 | All Israelis, living Israelis in the possession and Hamas. All Israelis, living Israelis, |
| 0:39.2 | in the possession of Hamas, were returned to Israel, while 2,000 Gazans and other Palestinians |
| 0:45.6 | in dungeons in Israel, most of whom were there without charges of any kind, have been released |
| 0:52.0 | back to the West Bank or Gaza. There are all |
| 0:54.5 | kinds of implications, obviously, from all of these events. Afterward, President Trump went to |
| 0:59.0 | Egypt, where he met with 20 or so world leaders to commemorate this agreement. And there's no |
| 1:03.9 | better person for us to work through all the implications with than our guest tonight, who is |
| 1:08.0 | one of our most frequent and most popular. He's Professor John Meersheimer, who has long been a professor of international relations at the University of Chicago. |
| 1:16.3 | He is the author of the Israel lobby, along with Professor Stephen Walt in 2006. |
| 1:23.8 | He is also the author of a 2018 book on liberal international relations and interventions that includes all sorts of conflicts, including the current one in Ukraine, which we'll talk to him about as well, and we'll spend the evening talking to him tonight about all of these obviously significant events. |
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