Hamas Releases Israeli Hostages

October 13, 2025 Hunter Wallace Conservatism, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, Palestine, Politics, Populists, Progressives, The Jewish Question, World 3

It is a sad day for activists.

Hamas and Israel have released their hostages.

After two years of bloodshed, the war in Gaza appears to be over. The people who have been living vicariously through the “Axis of Resistance” will have to find something else to do.

Times of Israel:

“Israel joined the families in celebration on Monday as Hamas released the 20 remaining living hostages under the Gaza ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, who came to Israel to mark the event.

Hamas is yet to release the remains of 28 dead hostages, despite being required to do so under the deal that would bring some closure to the national trauma that began when the terror group took 251 hostages back to Gaza after massacring some 1,200 people on October 7, 2023. …

All 20 returned pale and frail, but smiling and standing on their legs, with most of them held in horrific conditions in tunnels deep under Gaza, where many faced abuse, starvation and received limited medical treatment. …”

Is it a trap?

Is this just another peacefire that Israel will violate at will?

Sure, it is possible, but it seems unlikely for several reasons. Israel is an albatross for Trump and the war in Gaza is massively unpopular. This is a neat solution that takes it out of the headlines. The fact that Trump is doing this big event with Arab and Europeans leaders in Egypt and everyone involved is taking a big victory lap for ending the war and bringing “peace to the Middle East” suggests it will stick. It will also be much harder for Israel to resume the war now that the hostages have been returned. Trump also genuinely wants the Nobel Peace Prize and sees this deal as a crowning legacy defining achievement.

If it is trick by Trump and Netanyahu who have some kind of secret agreement to resume the war after the hostages are released, then our European and Arab allies will have egg on their faces. Would they allow themselves to be humiliated by Israel if they did not believe this was real?

Note: As Bannon explains, the deal is that the Palestinians get to stay in Gaza, Israel doesn’t annex the West Bank, settlements in the West Bank stop, the Gulf Arabs rebuild Gaza, Turks provide security. In other words, the Greater Israel project is dead and Muslim troops will be on Israel’s border.

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  1. I posted this concern before but nobody seems to have read it. I am posting this under this new article before it gets buried and lost in the comments:

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  2. I suspect Israel will continue to bomb Gaza and the West Bank whenever they feel like it, just like they continue to bomb Lebanon and Syria whenever they feel like it despite their ceasefire with Hezbollah. American taxpayers will, unfortunately, be paying for all Israeli airstrikes.

    I also suspect Israel will still try to drag us into another round of attacks on Iran.

    I hope I’m wrong about that.

    Thank God for the activists. They should be given credit for reducing right wing support for Israel. That is the development which impedes Trump’s ability put Israel first.

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    • Israel reduced its own support across the world and across partisan lines through its actions in Gaza. Normal people don’t like seeing videos of dead kids. Activists like Aaron Bushnell who set himself on fire or Greta and her little boat trips had nothing to do with it

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