Will There Be Peace in the Middle East? | Daniel Flesch
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On Monday, the 20 living hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were returned to their families. What brought this deal about and what might we expect to see happen in the future?
To answer some of those questions, I sat down with Daniel Flesch, Senior Policy Analyst for Middle East and North Africa, here at the Heritage Foundation.
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| 0:00.0 | Three, two, one, zero, all engine run. |
| 0:06.7 | There is no other institution that has the ability uniquely. |
| 0:11.3 | Without a heritage, every generation starts over. |
| 0:14.5 | To remind the current regime. |
| 0:18.7 | We the people tell the governor what it is allowed to do. |
| 0:22.5 | All the action to get back in their box and stay there. |
| 0:28.0 | Lift-off. |
| 0:28.9 | We have a lift-down. |
| 0:31.8 | From the Heritage Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you. Foundation, this is Heritage Explains. It is always a dizzying feeling to stand at a turning point in history. |
| 0:50.3 | They can be large, like the JFK assassination, the falling of the Berlin Wall, the September 11th attacks, the first days of COVID. |
| 0:57.0 | They can be smaller, like natural disasters, presidential elections, and surprising developments in the lives of celebrities. |
| 1:04.0 | These shared moments shape culture. |
| 1:07.0 | This past Monday, we found ourselves again at a turning point. |
| 1:12.5 | But this one was rather unexpected and also happy. |
| 1:20.2 | You're listening to the sounds of Israelis in Tel Aviv, recorded by CNBC on Monday. |
| 1:26.3 | They are welcoming a series of large black vans |
| 1:28.9 | returning to Israel from Gaza. |
| 1:31.6 | And in those vans, |
| 1:32.9 | the 20 remaining living Israeli hostages |
| 1:35.8 | that have been held by Hamas in Gaza. |
| 1:38.7 | For the first time in over two years, |
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