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October 14, 2025 14 mins

1. Historic Peace Agreement

Israel and Hamas ending a war that began in October 2023. We celebrate Trump’s role in brokering the deal, presenting it as a moment of global significance—“the end of the age of terror and death” and “a new dawn for the Middle East.”


2. Key Events Described

  • Hostage exchange: Hamas releases the final 20 living Israeli hostages; Israel releases 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.

  • Return of remains: The bodies of several deceased hostages are repatriated.

  • Ceasefire and framework: The plan involves partial Israeli troop withdrawal, establishment of a technocratic Gaza administration (not Hamas-controlled), and disarmament conditions.

  • Humanitarian aid: Large-scale relief efforts in Gaza are emphasized.

  • International involvement: Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and others serve as guarantors; a reconstruction and aid summit is held in Egypt.


3. Trump’s Role and Statements

Trump was the chief architect and hero of the peace accord.

  • He calls it “the greatest assemblage of countries in terms of wealth and power.”

  • He refers to it as the “granddaddy of them all” among peace efforts.

  • The text includes his speech excerpts on Air Force One and before the Israeli parliament (Knesset).


4. Reactions and Praise

The piece highlights unusually bipartisan and international praise:

  • Hillary Clinton commends Trump’s efforts, calling the deal “a really significant first step.”

  • Major news outlets—CBS and NBC—report on it with positive framing, using phrases like “historic peace deal” and “landmark diplomatic success.”

  • Netanyahu is quoted calling Trump “the greatest friend the State of Israel has ever had.”

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Of the age of terror and death and the beginning
of the age of faith and hope and of God.
It's the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony
for Israel and all the nations of what will soon
be a truly magnificent region. I believe that so strongly.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
This is a forty seven Morning Update special edition with
Ben Ferguson.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
There is no other way to describe it but a story,
a Middle East piece deal, President Donald Trump describing as
prayers of millions have finally been answered with the signing
of the peace agreement. Now, there is a lot that
has happened in the last twenty four hours, and this
is the part that most are celebrating. Hamas released the

(00:52):
final twenty living Israeli hostages that have been held since
October seventh of twenty twenty three, many of them underground
the entire time. What we also know is we have
witnessed and seen the homecoming play out on TV and
social media. Families prayer fully crying, celebrating in tears without

(01:20):
words describe what it's like to see a loved one
they thought they may never see again. What happened in
exchanged is also important. Israel released one thousand, nine hundred
palace and entertainees and prisoners, including many who had life
sentences for their atroses against the Jewish people. We also

(01:44):
know that the bodies of some of the diseased hostages
are also being returned. At least fore caskets have made
it back to Israel. The exchange is part of a
broader ceasefire, a peace steel framework often referred to as
Trump's twenty point Plan, that was agreed earlier this month,

(02:05):
and under the deal, Israel is to partially withdraw troops
from Gaza to his designated line, while retaining control over
certain security zones, at least initially now. The plan envisions
handing over administration of Gaza to a body of technocrats

(02:25):
rather than Hamas directly, with oversight by international guaranteers. The
deal also calls for disarmament of Hamas, or at least
their relinquishment of overt military control, as a condition of
long term peace. A humanitarian aid push into Gaza is
also part of the agreement, with large scale deliveries planned

(02:49):
during the ceasefire period. Now a board Air Force one
en route to Israel Trump declared the war is over,
and in his address to Israel's parliament, Trump framed the
release of the hostages as a quote new beginning for
the Middle East and stress that the deal is historic.
He also reaffirms US commitment to prevent renewed war, saying

(03:13):
he would uphold the cease fire and not allow hostilities
to resume. Trump also joked about pardoning the Israeli Prime
Minister in yet Yahoo and said he would fight for
whoever it may be to preserve peace. He thinked those involved,
including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty point piece

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Speaker 1 (05:33):
Take a listen It's a tremendous day for the Middle East.
And you can see that this is probably the greatest
assemblage of countries in terms of wealth and power, maybe
ever assembled, and it's just an honored part of it.
We're going to be signing a document that's going to
spell out of lot of rules and regulations and lots

(05:55):
of other things, and it's very comprehensive. But we've already
signed documents in the Middle East and having to do
with Israel and Hamas and just about everything else. And
it's really working out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know,
were let go on time, on schedule. The very sad

(06:17):
situation of bodies, which was always a sad situation, and
they're being sought out and they're working with many different
people finding some were brought in and some were not,
and they're working out to find out where those bodies are.
It's hard to believe that you even have to say
something like that. It's so sad, it's so sad. But

(06:38):
what's not said is that we have finally after I
guess they say three thousand years. I've heard from three
thousand years to five hundred years. But whatever it is,
it's a lot, but this was the one. This was
the granddaddy of them all, and frankly, I thought this
was probably going to be the toughest, and maybe in
many ways it was. But we had a lot of
good talent. Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and

(07:04):
General Caine was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We
had an amazing array.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Of talent, an amazing array of talent that was able
to bring all of this to reality. There was even
a shocking moment that happened in this country as the media, yes,
even some Democrats surprisingly giving Donald Trump credit for the
Gaza deal. One of those was Hillary Clinton, and here

(07:34):
is what she said.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
point plan and seeing a path forward for what's often

(07:58):
called the day after. Most importantly, the conflict hopefully will
end with the ceasefire, the hostages will be returned, and
then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of finding
the kind of security that Israel and the Palestinians after

(08:20):
Hamas deserved to have. Moving forward with the other points
in the plan to try to create an opportunity for
Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel to
have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful that
we'll be able to see progress. Today's a good start,

(08:42):
but we have to keep going from here.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
You can hear Hillary Clinton giving this type of gratitude
for the leadership of President Donald Trump doing something that
Joe Biden's team never got close to doing. And that's
not all the CBS Evening News opening their newscasts saying
this about President Trump.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
There is more hope for peace in the Middle East
tonight than there has been in a very long time.
Hamas today released the last of the surviving Israelis held
hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel in
turn freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
This is the first phase of the Trump peace Plan,
but remember it is a twenty point plan and there's
still a long way to go. The President was in
Israel today meeting with families of the now free hostages
and addressing the Kanesset.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
The President said the long nightmare for Israelis and Palestinians
is over now, he said. It is time to turn
the battlefield victories against terrorists into the ultimate prize, peace
and prosperity for the entire Middle East.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
Mister Trump then traveled to Egypt to sign the peace
deal and hold a summit on the future of Gaza
and the region.

Speaker 7 (09:52):
It's been a day of dramatic split screen moments, and
none more so than the sight of President Trump addressing
the Israeli Parliament at the final moment, as of final
hostages crossed out of Gaza and AID trucks rolled freely
into Gaza. The result was, after two years now a
brutal war, the unmistakable hope, the feeling in the air
that something big had finally changed.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
You listen to that news report. That is honest reporting.
And that wasn't the only praise the President received, as
even those in the media that can't stand him could
not overlook the significance of his leadership bringing peace to
the Middle East.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
This was very much a peacemaker's speech.

Speaker 8 (10:33):
Do you give him credit for this? Certainly?

Speaker 5 (10:35):
I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an incredible moment.
It's a terrific day for the hostage families.

Speaker 6 (10:42):
It's a terrific day for President Trump for our national interests.

Speaker 8 (10:47):
He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
was his deal.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
He worked this out.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
There's no question things seem.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
necessarily before.

Speaker 8 (10:59):
A better future ahead.

Speaker 7 (11:01):
That's what today represented. It was so so powerful and
unbelievably emotional.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
giving credit on networks that never give Donald Trump credit,
and it puts in a perspective just how significant this
moment actually is. Donald Trump's historic peace deal. On NBC,
they covered it this way.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
From the moment he landed in Israel, the words thank
you visible from Air Force one and billboard to your
expressing gratitude. President Trump basted in the praise of a
country that credits him more than its own prime minister
for today's long awaited reunions, the President's name echoing through
Israel's parliament as he touted his landmark diplomatic success.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
This is the end of the age of terror and death.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.

Speaker 8 (11:52):
Netta, Yahoo, praising his American ally, Donald Trump is.

Speaker 7 (11:57):
The greatest friend that the state of his has ever
had in.

Speaker 8 (12:01):
The White House. Going off script, the President called on
his Israeli counterpart to pardon Netan Yahoo, who was indicted
for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Cigars and Champagne, who the hell cares about it.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
The present, then heading to Egypt for a peace signing
ceremony with Arab nations and other world leaders who backed
the deal.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Peace has been achieved after untoiding efforts, efforts led by
President Trump.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
His landmark diplomatic success. How NBC News described it as
for what the rest of the world is thinking. Net
and Yahoo praising the deal, defending Israel's conduct over the war,
and express relief and joy over the hostages return. At
the summit held in Egypt, over twenty world leaders, including

(12:53):
the Egyptian president, joined with Trump to endorse the ceasefire
as well as the postwar plan, and as a part
of that, several countries committed to being guaranteurs of the agreement,
the US, Egypt, Kutar, and Turkey overseeing security and reconstruction
in Gaza. The French president called for progress towards a

(13:14):
two state solution and announced plans for a humanitarian aid
conference for Gaza. Overall, many nations welcome the deal they
thought was impossible as a vital step towards peace, and
many of them said it's time now to get the
real work done for Gaza disarmament, security and reconstruction. If

(13:34):
you just step back and you look at what President
Trump was able to do, there is no doubt. As
NBC News put it, Trump's historic peace deal. It is
his landmark diplomatic success and it's no telling how many
lives will be saved because of Donald Trump's leadership.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
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