Good day. It's Friday, September the 26th, 2025, and this is the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum.

Today's article is authored by our senior editor for Theology, Dr. Ryan Dennison, and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins.

While President Trump's speech garnered most of the attention at the UN General Assembly,

a gathering on Tuesday with Arab and Muslim leaders could turn out to be the most

consequential part of this week's events.

Trump even said as much referring to the negotiations as,

My Most Important Meeting and a chance to

end something that should have probably never started. That's something that shouldn't have

started is Israel's war with Hamas and the president's assessment appears to have a better

chance of being accurate now than at any point in the conflict's nearly two years of

violence and death. While most these fire negotiations to this point have relied on both Israel

and Hamas finding a middle ground that was considered mutually beneficial to both parties,

Trump's current proposal appears to essentially leave Hamas out of the equation. Instead, on Tuesday,

he met with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey,

Indonesia, and Pakistan. Notably absent from that list were Hamas, Iran, and Israel, though Trump is meeting with Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday. Israel is, however, generally

aware of what Trump proposed, and as one Israeli official described, they understand that,

quote, there will be bitter pills we'll have to swallow.

Specific details of the president's 21-point plan are, as of this writing, largely unknown.

Yet, as Axios reports, some of the general principles are the release of all remaining hostages, a permanent ceasefire,

gradual Israeli withdrawal from all of the Gaza Strip,

a post-war plan that includes a governing mechanism in Gaza without Hamas, a security force that would include Palestinians, but also soldiers from Arab and Muslim countries,

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