Trump's Art of the Deal for Peace in the Middle East
The Reason Roundtable
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The hostages are free. |
| 0:08.0 | More than two years after Hermas' October 7th attack on Israel, |
| 0:12.0 | the living hostages have all been released, and a Gaza ceasefire has been signed. |
| 0:17.0 | This is part of a trade for nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees, |
| 0:20.0 | and it was all brokered by President Donald Trump. |
| 0:23.2 | So is this finally a path to peace? |
| 0:25.1 | Is Trump's art of the deal finally paying off? |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to the Reason Roundtable. |
| 0:29.6 | This is your libertarian review of news and culture from the editors of Reason magazine. |
| 0:34.9 | I'm Peter Souterman, and today I am joined by Catherine |
| 0:37.8 | Mangy Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch. Happy Monday. Happy Indigenous People's Day. Happy |
| 0:43.6 | Columbus Day. All right. So Trump is in the Middle East today, and according to prepared remarks |
| 0:49.6 | released by the White House, he plans to say, Israel has won all that can be won by force of arms. |
| 0:55.7 | Now it is time to translate these victories against terrorists on the battlefield into the |
| 1:00.5 | ultimate prize of peace and prosperity for the Middle East. Nick, this is obviously very good news |
| 1:06.0 | that the hostages have been released. Do you think that this is the start of a path to peace |
| 1:10.0 | in the Middle East? |
| 1:12.1 | That, who knows, but it's the next step for sure. And Donald Trump deserves, you know, |
| 1:19.6 | a lot of praise and a lot of credit for putting this together in the same way that he did the |
| 1:24.7 | Abraham Accords in his first term. I don't think anybody else on the |
| 1:29.0 | world stage was working to do anything, really, to bring some kind of clarity to this. So I think |
| 1:35.8 | it's a good day and, you know, Trump deserves credit. And it is the right next step. The real thing, |
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