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October 15, 2025 • 17 mins

President Trump just scored a massive win in the Middle East. Twenty hostages freed. A ceasefire and peace framework between Israel and Hamas, both sides agreeing for the first time in decades. In just the first year of Trump’s second term, the results speak for themselves. Buck breaks down how this deal came together, why critics were wrong about Israel, and what this means for America’s leadership on the world stage.

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Trump delivers a massive win
on the Middle East. In just the last forty eight hours,
We've had the return of twenty hostages, those who are
still held alive by Hamas return to their families. That's incredible.

(00:35):
You have the framework of a cease fire and going forward,
a peace deal between Israel and Hamas that has been
agreed to by both sides. This is an enormous win
for the Trump administration. And I've got to say, it's
just the first year of Trump term two, and already

(00:58):
you have to wonder what else is in store for us.
This is incredible. It's something that is so above and
beyond I think what could be expected for an administration that,
as I've said, is still only in its first year.
That even Trump's enemies out there are willing to say

(01:21):
that this is a really good day and that what
Trump has accomplished here is amazing. Now, let me just
put this out there, and I know there are going
to be people that get mad at me for it,
and that's okay. I don't care because it's true, and
the truth is what it is. There are a lot
of people who were wrong. Well, there are people who

(01:42):
are wrong about the Israel Hamas conflict from day one,
and those are the people that were saying there should
be a ceasefire right after October seventh. This would be
as morally obtuse, as immoral as calling for a ceasefire
with al Qaida on September twelfth, two thousand and one.

(02:05):
It's insane, and there were people who were calling for
a ceasefire right away, and really all that was was
the using the pretense of a humanitarian concern to allow
Israel's enemies to attack without reprisal, which is a monstrous
thing to demand of the people of Israel, and was

(02:27):
always completely and utterly outside, you know, outside the realm
of what is reasonable, what is ethical. It was just disgraceful. Honestly,
it was disgraceful. And I think that now people have
a greater recognition of that than ever before, because we

(02:47):
see that those who were calling for a ceasefire are
not I'm talking about in this country in particular, are
not particularly happy about the fact that we are in
a ceasefire now. In fact, they've been very muted in
saying anything about this, and what does that tell you

(03:07):
about their real aims in this process? What does it
tell you about the reality of what those individuals were
trying to achieve when they were calling for CEESPA right away.
So that's one part of it. There are people who
were wrong the whole time, and they were acting in
bad faith. They were not criticizing Israel here and there.

(03:28):
They were opposed to Israel's right to defend itself from
the very beginning, because they're opposed to the state of Israel.
So that's one contingent in this argument. But then there
were others. There were others who emerged, i would say,
in the second year of this two year conflict on
the right who were increasingly bitter and caustic in their

(03:51):
criticisms of the way that Israel was conducting this war.
And they even went along with in the last six months,
the claims of genocide and starvation in Gaza. There was
no genocide and there was no starvation, and that should
have been very obvious all along. But there was a
really ruthless propaganda campaign to defame the Israeli military, the IDF,

(04:21):
and to highlight in highlight isn't even the right word
to wildly exaggerate to the point of falsification the suffering
of the people of Gaza, which I'm not saying there
weren't Goadzen suffering, and there weren't civilians who were killed.
Of course there were, and that is a terrible thing.
But war is a terrible thing, no matter how just

(04:41):
the war may be. Think about what America did in
the Second World War, for example, a war that we can,
at least generally speaking, all agree was a just war
from the US perspective. We were attacked at Pearl Harbor,
and Germany and Japan joined an alliance against us. They
declared war on us together, So what choice did we have.

(05:02):
But when we fire bombed Tokyo, or when we were
bombing Dresden the Allies were bombing Dresden, there were a
lot of innocent people who died. I think you could
argue too many innocent people maybe in those situations, but
war as hell. Now you're going to do a Hairoshima
Nagasaki conversation, there is a lot. My point is, when

(05:23):
you're fighting a war, terrible things are going to happen.
The Israelis fought a just rather responded with war to
Hamas inciting a war. They started the war, Israel finished it.
And you can see, I understand there's a lot of
Gaza that has been destroyed, a lot of buildings, and

(05:45):
Israel told people to get out of that, to get away.
Israel gave ample warning that they were coming. It is
Hamas's decision to use people, to use its own civilians
as human shields, which they do and always have done routinely.
It is Hamas's decision to use hospitals and other buildings
in violation of Geneva Convention and violation of the rules

(06:05):
of war, such as they are to use those buildings,
so that any on those military facilities, because that's what
they've become when you're storing missiles and soldiers and other
things there, then claim that there's some campaign of genocide
that the Israelis are engaged in. Those are all decisions
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into a crowded mall here in America and they're holding
that hostage and they're shooting at people, and I conceal

(07:34):
carry frequently here in Florida, and I were to draw
my pistol and shoot, and let's say I hit that hostage.
I'm not the bad guy. If I have to engage
someone who is shooting actively at me and others from
behind a hostage that they have taken. I am morally
in the right to respond with the most accurate fire

(07:57):
that I can. Now hopefully I would only hit the
hostage taker. But if I hit that hostage, it's on
the hostage taker. It's not my fault. I don't have
to sit there and get killed because somebody else has
chosen to hide behind a human shield. And this is
what was lost by a lot of people, including some
people on the right, in this process. And also, I
think these people are saying, you know, this is not

(08:18):
America First or what. I don't know what they think
they're talking about. Trump is the one who is leading
this negotiation. Trump is the one who was an ally
to Israel throughout this whole process. So if what I'm
saying is in America First, then what Trump was doing
is in America First, which is absurd because he is
the leader of the founder and leader of the America

(08:38):
First and MAGA movement. So you can't have it both ways,
some of the commenters around here, you can't have it
both ways. Well, yeah, what Trump did is amazing, but
you supporting what Trump did in this instance is somehow
contrary to the movement. No, incorrect, incorrect, And then that
takes me to the claims about starvation. The claims about

(09:01):
starvation were also lies and any food short there were shortages,
and I'm sure there were nights where people were going
hungry in different parts of Gaza. It's a war. But
starving means that would mean that you had no access
to sufficient calories for a period of thirty or more days,
because that's generally what would require. And some people can
last six to eight weeks before they're truly in a

(09:22):
starvation phase. That could be fatal. It depends how much
obviously body fat you have on you, depends how old
you are. But there's a difference between shortages where people
might go hungry in a war zone for a day
here or there, which is uncomfortable and I understand, and starvation,
which is a horrible and just you know, deeply tragic

(09:48):
state where people are dying because they don't have enough
caloric intake. It's a very different thing. And there is
no evidence whatsoever that there was starvation in Godza. There's
hunger in America tonight, Okay, there are people going hungry tonight.
In some places, they're not starving to death. Now, hunger
is something to be addressed, but starvation is a very

(10:09):
different thing. And the claims were that there was intentional
starvation of civilians in Gaza. A lie, a lie. And
you know how you can tell this? There are many ways,
but one of them is that in Gaza, Hamas in
just the last twenty four hours has been in gun
battles with and has executed in public people over fighting

(10:32):
over who's going to be in charge. If you're dealing
with mass starvation, are you really wasting resources in time
as Hamas doing public executions to show everybody that you're
still in charge. Given that there's a peace still that
was just signed with Israel, wouldn't you be rushing all
resources and attention to making sure that you are feeding everybody? Well,

(10:55):
Hamas was stealing food from that the Israelis were providing,
of course, and the IDF was providing. Hamas was stealing
that food and selling it on the black market or
keeping it from themselves the whole time. There was no
moral equivalency between these two sides. I'll have this argument
with anybody, I'll win. I'm right. There was no moral
equivalancy between the IDF and Hamas and people that played
this game of oh they're you know, both sides are

(11:18):
bad or both sides do bad things. They were being
deeply either disingenuous or just dishonest. And I think that
we'll be able to see more and more of that
now because you'll see that the casualty figures for this
kind of urban warfare over two years were actually civilian
casualty figures were actually quite low, and you'll have more

(11:38):
and more information coming out about just how depraved Hamas was.
Think about this. You had two thousand Palestinians were released.
Those are prisoners, those are combatants who were taken off
the battlefield as part of this this swap for the
twenty hostages, two thousand criminals, terrorists have been released back
to back to Gaza. Not a single person in custody

(12:02):
of Israel was tortured and or died in captivity. And
yet look at how many hostage taken by Hamas died
in captivity. And you could say, oh, well, that's because
it's warfare and it was challenging to No, they mistreated
them intentionally. We all know this, right, They tortured them

(12:22):
they let them starve and they let them die. Because
what motivates Hamas is not is not an independent state,
is not. It is hatred of Jews. That is the
fundamental reality of Hamas as an organization, and unfortunately, it
is a primary psychological reality of a lot of Palestinians

(12:44):
in Gaza. And all of the data would show that
the actions of the government in Hamah, that the fact
that people voted for this government in Gaza. Anecdotally, I
could tell you all kinds of stories about Palestinians that
I have met from the so called occupied territories and
what they say about Israel. I mean, hatred of Jews,

(13:07):
and Israel is the primary motivation, the primary motivation for
Hamas and for everybody who supports them. So that has
all become very apparent. Something else I thought was really interesting.
You had the the one of the hostages came forward

(13:30):
to say that Hamas was scared of Trump, and I
thought this was really interesting. What more clear separation could
there be between Democrats and Republicans on this, What more
obvious data points would you need to have in hand

(13:53):
to show that the Democrats are unseerious. They ran an
unseerious candidate with Kamala Harris, and they are unseerious people
on foreign policy and international affairs. They think because of
the credentials of some of their elites and the way
that they approach these multilateral and consensus building and all
this other nonsense, they think that they have a better

(14:15):
handle on it. But the results say exactly the opposite,
that they are terrible at this, and that Trump who
doesn't have the other than being president now for five years,
who doesn't have the background in diplomacy, that many of
these people, like Tony Blinken Tony Blincoln is a loser. Okay,
this guy. The only thing he's ever accomplished is puffing

(14:37):
up his resume, going from one institution to another where
he's entirely replaceable and does nothing of any worth. This
is true of all of the senior foreign policy personnel
under the Biden administration and before that under the Obama administration.
These are unseerious people that produced unseerious results or rather
serious damage you could go in that direction to US interests.

(15:01):
And the fact that Hamas was so angry or really
scared and upset that Donald Trump had won the election
just goes to show our enemies want weak democrats in office,
meaning just democrats, our enemies, the people that really want
to do Americans and Israelis and really want to do
civilization harm, whether it's the Iranians or the North Koreans

(15:24):
or Putin or anywhere Venezuela. You know the regime there,
majuro regime. They want democrats in charge. It's just the truth.
There is no enemy regime to America anywhere in the
world that would rather have Donald Trump in office than
Kamala Harris. I think that speaks volumes, It speaks louder

(15:46):
than anything I can even say on the subject. That
is the truth. So a huge win for Trump with
this Midi's piece. I've never seen anything like this in
my life where the midiest actually has hope for a
stable future. Maybe it doesn't happen, maybe things fall apart.
Hamas is still around and they're disgusting, and it's a
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