The deal between Hamas and Israel is off to a good start.
Trump Arrives in Egypt for Peace Summit After Hostage-Prisoner Swap
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Arrives in Egypt for Peace Summit After Hostage-Prisoner Swap
President Trump addressed the Israeli Parliament after all 20 remaining hostages alive in Gaza returned to Israel, closing a chapter in the two-year war.
“We gather on a day of profound joy, of soaring hope,” he said, later adding that international pressure had played a part in bringing about the cease-fire.
Trump later flew to Egypt for a summit with leaders from the Middle East and Europe to push forward his broader proposal to end the war and rebuild the Gaza Strip. Israel and Hamas are expected to begin negotiating a peace deal that would see the U.S.-designated terrorist group disarm and give up power in Gaza.
Israelis gathered, sang and celebrated as the captives were returned.
Hostages were taken to a reception point in Israel to be reunited with their families and undergo examinations. The bodies of around 28 hostages who have died are to be handed over later.
Israel has released the nearly 2,000 Palestinians it had agreed to free under the term of the deal.
Many details still need to be resolved in a subsequent phase of the pact, including how Gaza will be governed.
Trump called for Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu.
President Trump says the second phase of the peace plan, which calls for the disarmament of Hamas and the formation of an interim government to oversee Gaza, has begun.
“The phases are all a little bit mixed in with each other,” Trump said, sitting next to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. “You look at Gaza, it needs a lot of clean up.”
The second part of the 20-point peace agreement is likely to be much more complex to implement because it calls for Hamas to disarm, which the militant group has resisted in the past. It is also unclear how exactly Gaza will be governed, and who will be a part of that task.
The implementation of phase one has taken place without significant interruption so far, with Hamas releasing the remaining living Israeli hostages, Israel withdrawing from parts of Gaza and releasing hundreds of Palestinians in its custody, and the two sides halting fire. The bodies of dead hostages are still to be returned to Israel.
Well Done Mr. President
The only part of the deal I disagree with is US putting troops in Israel.
For discussion, please see The Gaza Cease-Fire Is Great, US Troop Involvement Isn’t
Also see Praise to Trump for Brokering a Gaza Hostage Deal to End the War
Lots of Issues remain and success is not assured. Click above for Trump’s 20-Point Plan and additional comments.
Netanyahu controls Trump, not the other way around!
So, if we watch Trump forcing some piece, he got that marching order from Jerusalem. The reason to give it is easy to see: Israel already reached the primary objective (destroying Gaza) and was bleeding the popularity it needs for survival.
What we’re going to see next is some Israelis doing something good, like giving one young Pally girl medical help, to show their human side. And surely the MSM will be allover that!
It’s been that way since LBJ. The fetid Swamp is Israeli-occupied territory.
This is what social justice [aka, not justice] looks like. 2000 Palestinians for 20 Israelis. 67,000 Palestinians killed (+2 million homeless) for 807 Israelis killed.
But I’m sure that’s fair. It would be antisemitic to say otherwise.
Congratulations to Trump on getting the Gazans to agree to stop being slaughtered.
Nutty Yahoo didn’t give a hoot about the hostages. This deal could have and should have been done a L-O-N-G time ago.
Nutty did not look happy today at all when Trump was there. Refused to go the signing. Says everything.
Kudos to Trump. Even if it’s all theater (and a lot of it actually is) I still give Trump the benefit of the doubt that he was able to reign in Nutty.
Would never have happened with the useless cadaver who was president last term.
I always find it interesting how not understanding something doesn’t hold people on the net, such as yourself, from posting comments.
If it’s true that there is finally peace in Gaza, it’s simply because there is now no such thing as Gaza. Site Prep is done, start building those Casinos and cabanas boys!
Peace celebration?
More like an obliteration n back slapping parade of bullies. (not that Hamas tis a stellar player).
Trump is picking out where to put his taxpayer subsidized resort and a public square with his gold spray painted statue.
Hamas is the same Hamas.
Hamas mass executes anyone suspected at lack of submission or being too independent during the past two years.
Will Hamas use the bodies of the dead hostages as a future bargaining chip?
Also there were no live female hostages released. Guess why? I’m sure they wouldn’t want their stories to be told.
Hamas will use the DNA of all the hostages to clone new hostages and then use them as currency.
Excellent analysis – as usual – by Alex Krainer of trend compass. Gradually getting to the heart of the matter. The “Cult” (Alex calls it “the Empire” – same thing) more and more on the defensive every day. Good. Now if only more people were aware who is sending them and their families – depending on where you are located and what caste you happened to be born into – to perish.
Could Trump’s peace capsize the undead British Empire?Peace in the Middle East and the defeat in Ukraine will prove extremely embarrassing for Britain.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/could-trumps-peace-capsize-the-undead
Well, after a romp through north Africa, Sicily, and Normandy, a U.S. General once remarked about what’s required to win a war: stated in Islamic terms, you don’t win the jihad dying for Allah, you win the jihad making the infidels die for Allah. Apparently after 1400 years the infidels’ beatings and dying for Allah will still go on.
And now some Islamic countries have access to nuclear weapons.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pakistan-says-its-nuclear-program-available-to-saudi-arabia-under-defense-pact/
How is 20 for 2000 a good start ?
20 for 20 would be a good start and others returned as mile stones met..
It shows how successful Hamas has been in their hostage propaganda.
The pressure from the world and Israeli leftists on Netanyahu to get the hostages home was so great that Israel was forced to accept the release formula of the value of an Israel hostage to a Palestinian criminal being pegged at something like 100 to 1!
This is what happens when countries let themselves be held hostages by terrorists holding hostages!
It’s not, but that’s not how these types of things work.
Hopefully israel chipped the prisoners and can find them and re-incarerate them when needed.
[lol] They have their DNA, photos, fingerprints, stool samples, etc.
Power can change things, but only the power of the natural philosophical concept of grace self actualized and implemented in the temporal universe can change them permanently.
Peace in our time
This particular 3 day stretch, anyway.
NJBR would be echoing Chamberlain here. We know what that led up too.
It’s a great start and hopefully the ME can build on it. Everyone in the Middle East has had enough of Hamas, ISIS, Iran and all the fanatics so the time is ripe and the money is available to try something more productive. We will see.
Releasing 2000 terrorists is part of a good deal? Are you insane? Nitwitkoff and Kushner threw Israel under the bus. The terrorists being released have shown their true colors and will return to attacking and killing Israelis as soon as they can. The Quran demands its followers to kill the infidels and Israel is the king of the infidels, surrounded by Muslim countries which have attacked it constantly for 80 years. Hamas is already taking armed control of Gaza and killing anyone it doesn’t like. I’m sure they are already rebuilding the tunnels and it’s only a matter of time until the rockets start falling in Israel again. The ‘can’ was kicked down the road, nothing more.
Do you have another idea or are you just using Mishtalk as a forum to spout personal frustrations?
Just telling the truth about the Quran, Islam, and the current conflict, Doug. If your home was invaded, your wife and girls gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and then executed, what would you do the people who did this? Be honest. You would track them down and kill them, like any sane person would do. And if by chance they had been captured and put in prison, you would raise holy hell if some politician told you they were going to be released. When the surrounding countries use the Quran as the basis for their legal systems, you shouldn’t be surprised that none of Israel’s neighbors have a ‘warm’ peace with it. Trump threw Israel under the bus and kicked the can down the road. If you can’t see that (or don’t want to), you don’t know the history of the region.
You’re having a panic attack. Deep breaths…
You moron westerners have no idea about this region. You are critisizing his warnings as a panic attack but if you have lived and travelled through this region you would find he is a Cassandra.
And no I’m not a Jew but a Copt and I know how the situation is when the deals and backstabbing make things get messy.(and bloody).
Most religious people are dangerous whack jobs. Our home grown Taliban is just starting to come to power. Muslims aren’t special.
You are absolutely correct that a lot of Israelis are still enraged and will essentially spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge from the October 7 Hamas attack.
But recognize that there are also a lot of Palestinians (as well as Yemenis, Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, Qataris, etc) who similarly saw their innocent children or parents killed in their own homes by bombs from the sky and will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge from the Israeli attack.
The future is bleak in the Middle East unless people find a way to break the cycle.
The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World’s Deadliest Addiction
https://a.co/d/eZtglib
Then your proposition is to kill them all.
aka genocide
Nope, just deport them all to an Islamic utopia like pakistan or yemen.
And if those countries won’t take them?
Is that when you go to the Final Solution?
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aqeMWrv_700b.jpg
Bibi had to take this deal to get the remaining 20 hostage & bodies in the coming days. And it’s not like Israel is going to stop planning for a potential re-invasion.
Give it at least 3 months to see what Hamas does. Rest assured, Bibi will be willing to go back in, if that’s what’s required.
There was no kicking the can down the road. What really matters from here is whether or not a country like Saudi Arabia takes steps to normalize relationships with Israel which was starting to happen pre 10/7/2023.
It’s quite possible Saudia Arabia formally recognizes Israel’s right to exist before Trump leaves office. If that happens, Hamas is Hezbollah are done, because this will sideline Iran’s ability to use them as proxies.
“If your home was invaded, your wife and girls gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and then executed, what would you do the people who did this? Be honest.”
I think you describe the reason why some Palestinians join Hamas very well.
‘If your home was invaded, your wife and girls gang-raped, tortured, mutilated and then executed, what would you do the people who did this?’
So, you mean most of the past century of jewish behavior towards Palestinians.
Its telling you think there is only one devil here. There are LOTS of devils, and just because Islam is a curse doesn’t mean jews aren’t equally vicious. They are.
I agree with you. Funny how 10 others downvoted the truth. Hamas is executing rivals and anyone they regard as collaborators with Israel. So by yet more terror they will ensure that only those that support Hamas will make up the “nonpartisan” Palestinian administration that will rebuild Gaza. There will be tens of billions of reconstruction aid and Hamas will get billions both directly (contracts) and more billions indirectly (bribes, payoffs and protection money).
… then Hamas (or whatever it’s called then) will perpetrate some atrocity on Israel, and then wail about how Israel lost it’s shit and bombed it all back to the Stone Age.
It’s as predictable as Tom & Jerry.
The hostages were the primary driving force here.
Sadly, Israel people and politicians let themselves be held hostage by Hamas successful use of the hostages as a propaganda force.
Israel used to have a policy that they would not allow terrorists holding hostages to influence any subsequent actions that they took against the terrorists, so as not to encourage terrorists to use hostage taking as a weapon.
The country apparently threw that principle out the window at some point in the past.
After Oct 7th, 2023, Israel allowed itself to be constrained in the actions it took by concern for the hostages wellbeing, including flooding the Hamas tunnels with seawater, which could have brought the conflict to a much earlier end. Additionally, they held back invading Gaza City because they believed that was where the majority of hostages were held.
From the article below, some Israel politicians wanted to write the hostages off after Oct 7th but the Israeli bleeding-hearts forced a softer position, which resulted in many more lost lives and injuries than would have otherwise occurred.
Hopefully, Israel (and other countries, including the USA) have learned that prioritizing saving the lives of hostages is the wrong approach in the future.
Have you seen picture of Gaza? The place is mostly wiped out.
If Hamas doesn’t take steps to disarm, then all that means is Israel is going to go right back in & keep kicking their asses. You apparently foresee this being the case.
Hopefully, that doesn’t happen & by some miracle, Gaza can move on from Hamas.
Time will tell, and it won’t take much longer than 3-6 months to get that answer.
Israeli arms makers welcome Gaza ceasefire to reverse falling sales to Europe
https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-arms-makers-welcome-gaza-ceasefire-to-reverse-falling-sales-to-europe
The Europeans still have their contracts with Israel for their formidable anti-missile systems and want more all except for Spain who cancelled theirs. If I were an Israeli arms manufacturer I would not be worried.
Spain’s economy is the size of florida’s economy. Big but not consequential compared to other countries.
>> The only part of the deal I disagree with is US putting troops in Israel.
The camel officially putting its nose in the tent is possibly the primary purpose for the deal.
You guys know the regime never honours its own trade deals or peace treaties. But,after all this, when you see light at the end of a new geopolitical tunnel, you think it’s daylight. …okay you’re not that naive and admit the risks. I lean far in one direction regarding the “risks”. I keep seeing these Spider-Man reboots and they all look the same.
The peace agreement is great, and Trump deserves credit for that. It is completely overshadowed by any US troop commitment or any US taxpayer dollars whatsoever going to rebuilding. Israel and Hamas broke it. They can pay for it. America is not the world’s sugar daddy.
The US is not paying. The Arab oil states are.
I certainly hope so, but if uncle sugar doesn’t kick in I would be shocked. Also US troops there is downright disgusting. Its not our circus not our monkeys.
It’s part of the deal. It also makes them have skin in the game.
Not a problem. Israel still has thousands incarcerated. Please forgive my cynicism.
And can arrest more at their whim. It isn’t hard to find a Palestinian who deeply hates them.
Some good news for a change.
Israeli Defense Minister Says IDF Will Destroy Gaza Tunnels Once Hamas Releases Israeli Captives
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/12/israeli-defense-minister-says-idf-will-destroy-gaza-tunnels-once-hamas-releases-israeli-captives/
good, it should. it’s oart of de0militarization. The Allies didn’t leave the Nazis in power or the imperial japanese government. why should Israel??