Posted on 10/14/2025 9:13:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There was a rare moment of joy among Israelis and Palestinians on Monday as Hamas released the remaining 20 living hostages in Gaza as part of a swap deal for nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees, on a day world leaders met in Egypt to try to ensure the current limited truce is extended into a durable peace.
“The prayers of millions have finally been answered,” Donald Trump declared at the peace summit, with his counterparts lined up behind him. “At long last, we have peace in the Middle East.”
The Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, called for the ceasefire in Gaza to usher in a new era in the Middle East. “Let the Gaza war be the last of wars in the region,” the president said, amid widespread anxiety over how long the current truce will last.
In Tel Aviv, an estimated 65,000 Israelis gathered in “hostages square” and cheered when a military helicopter carrying the 20 freed Israelis flew over the crowd on the way to a nearby hospital. Live footage of their release and their family reunions was broadcast on large screens around the square. The plaza has been the centre of the national campaign for their release since 250 Israelis were abducted on 7 October 2023 in the surprise Hamas attack on southern Israeli communities that killed 1,200 people and ignited the conflict.
The bodies of four hostages held in Gaza and handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas on Monday were brought back to Israel, the army said.
A large crowd also massed in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis on Monday to celebrate the return of nearly 1,700 Palestinians detained over the course of the war, while in the West Bank capital of Ramallah people welcomed the arrival of 88 Palestinian detainees who had...
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The college punks aren’t going to like this. What will be their “cause” to riot now?
back to the trantifa and LGBTQXYZ “imagined genocide” riots
While Hamas says - virtually - what the agreements means to Trump and Israel is not what it means to us.
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Jews celebrated... Palestinian’s went back to doing what they normally did before they attacked Israel... Killing fellow Palestinians.
Breaking: federal judge says Trump has no authority to bring peace to the Middle East.
Yes that meme is making the rounds on social media.
Variation is federal judge rules instead of says.
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I’m afraid you are right. Any reason whatsoever is good enough for them. They need to be taken to the woodshed.
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