Trump’s Peace Plan: Lessons from the Negotiating Table

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In the aftermath of the ceasefire in Gaza, Jon is joined by Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator and President of the U.S./Middle East Project, and Zaha Hassan, former Palestinian legal advisor and Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Together, they examine the terms that ended the fighting, discuss the uncertain path toward Palestinian self-governance, and explore what decades of failed peace efforts can teach us about achieving lasting security and justice in the region. This podcast episode is brought to you by: UPLIFT DESK - Elevate your workspace with UPLIFT Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/WEEKLY for a special offer exclusive to our audience. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Lead Producer – Lauren Walker Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome once again to another weekly show podcast. My name is John Stewart,
0:12.4	and I will be talking throughout this. Did they call it a broadcast? A podcast? I guess it's not a
0:20.0	broadcast.
0:26.4	It's more like a cassette tape that you pop in while you're driving to Rochester or however it is that you enjoy these types of things.
0:28.0	It is Wednesday, October 15th.
0:30.0	This will prior Thursday, so who knows what will happen.
0:32.2	But for now, peace!
0:34.8	Peace!
0:35.8	Peace!
0:36.8	In the Middle East.
0:38.8	There is the ceasefire. You know, there's been a lot of talk about why. What happened?
0:43.9	Was it the Israeli bombing in Qatar that sort of knocked loose a couple of chains of event that brought this about?
0:52.6	Was it Donald Trump, the great man of peace that brought this about was it Donald Trump the great man of peace that
0:57.4	that went in and brought warring factions together and finally bridged a gap that
1:03.2	seemed unbridgeable but there's one theory that hasn't been proffered yet and I
1:07.1	think it's one that needs to be considered and i and i hate to even uh throw it out there
1:12.2	but uh this agreement to end the bombing to return uh the hostages to bring peace happened really on the heels of
1:26.4	the rhod comedy festival.
1:28.0	And I just want to say, you know, perhaps, and I know, look, correlation is not necessarily
1:33.2	causation, but I don't think we can deny the proximity.
1:37.9	The pro-
1:38.2	America's greatest mirth makers head into a region torn by strife.
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