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Trump's Diplomatic Triumph: Expanding the Middle East Peace Consensus GUEST NAME: Conrad Black Conrad Black discusses the ceasefire deal between Gaza, Hamas, and the Israeli Defense Forces. He praises President Trump for his astute diplomacy in attractin

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Trump's Diplomatic Triumph: Expanding the Middle East Peace Consensus

GUEST NAME: Conrad Black
Conrad Black discusses the ceasefire deal between Gaza, Hamas, and the Israeli Defense Forces. He praises President Trump for his astute diplomacy in attracting sympathy from Arab states and non-Arab Muslim countries apart from Iran, such as Indonesia and Pakistan. Black considers this the greatest diplomatic success in the Middle East since the establishment of the state of Israel. The consensus, achieved by expanding the negotiating scope, is that established states are preferable to terrorist operations.
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.7

This is CBSI on the world.

0:14.2

I'm John Batchel.

0:15.4

I welcome my colleague Conrad Black,

0:17.3

distinguished biographer,

0:18.3

and his National Post column,

0:25.7

looks at what we know of the peace deal,

0:33.0

the ceasefire deal, between Gaza, Hamas, and the Israeli defense forces.

0:34.4

It's all very positive.

0:39.1

We don't have all the details, but we're here to praise the President of the United States.

0:47.5

Conrad, a very good evening to you. The success so far of the peace deal is that President Trump,

0:58.1

before these final negotiations in Cairo that are ongoing, details are everything, attracted the sympathy of the Arab states.

0:59.5

To my knowledge, that's never been done before.

1:02.3

How did he do that, in your opinion?

1:04.1

Good evening to you.

1:05.8

Good evening to you, John.

1:07.3

I would say, and I would emphasize not only the Arab states, but the non-Arab Muslim

1:13.5

countries apart from Iran, Turkey was playing a mischievous role and fraternizing with Iran

1:23.6

in a way that was not appropriate to a NATO country and was clearly a troublesome country

1:30.9

in many ways from the Western perspective.

1:33.9

Pakistan has often been hostile to the U.S.

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