The Stack: Israel, Hamas Ceasefire, Hostages Freed, Trump Addresses Knesset
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement that includes the release of the remaining hostages taken during the October 7, 2023 attacks. Todd explains the framework behind this deal, including Israel’s plan to release nearly 2,000 Palestinian detainees and the uncertain mechanisms for enforcing peace. President Trump’s recent trip to Israel and address to the Knesset reignited debate over America’s role in the negotiation process and his influence on the “historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
Todd also dives deeper—exploring why lasting peace requires both moral and military strength, how ancient tensions dating back to Abraham and Ishmael still shape today’s conflict, and why biblical context still matters in modern geopolitics.
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📝 Transcript: Israel, Hamas Ceasefire, Hostages Freed, Trump Addresses Knesset
The Todd Huff Show – October 13, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
TODD HUFF: Well, that is right, my friends. I hope you had a great weekend. It is my pleasure to be back here today, back at it on this Monday. Oz is back — she was shocked that we got through Friday without her. Can’t say I blame her too much on that. But she is back at it today.
TODD HUFF: This is her birthday week. It’s not her birthday yet. It’ll be her birthday here in a couple of days, and I will let you know when that day gets here. But anyway, today what I want to get to, I want to talk first and foremost about this hostage release, this ceasefire. I want to talk about Trump.
TODD HUFF: Trump’s, of course, traveled over to Israel for this announcement and for speaking to the Knesset and all of these sorts of things. I want to go through basically a short history of what happened to get us here and just kind of go through this particular issue.
TODD HUFF: Also, we’re on day number — what is it — 13. Day 13 of the government shutdown. The Schumer shutdown, by the way. And listen, I welcome those of you who are on the left to tell me how this is the Republicans’ fault.
TODD HUFF: Listen, I’ve shared this with folks online. I am not a defender of the Republican Party all the time. Honestly, I don’t care. We’ve got a lot of problems from politicians in both parties. I think the problems that we have coming from the left, who make their home in the Democrat Party, are substantially bigger — bigger threats to our “democracy,” for our liberty, for our way of life.
TODD HUFF: But there are certainly problems on the Republican side as well. I’m not just someone who’s an apologist for the Republican Party. That’s not how I look at this. And there’s blame to place at the feet of the Republican Party, individual Republicans, over the course of time. But this isn’t one of them. This government shutdown is Chuck Schumer’s shutdown.
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TODD HUFF: But we’re going to start October 7, 2023. You remember that Hamas invaded Israel. They snuck across the border with weapons — AK-47s and other weapons — and attacked innocent Israelis. We’re talking citizens. They went to a music venue and attacked, shot, captured, killed, raped — did all sorts of unspeakable things to people who were attending a concert.
TODD HUFF: They went to homes, to family homes. Destroyed families. Tore families apart. Killed members of the families, kidnapped, abducted others. This happened two years — a little bit over two years ago — October 7, 2023. They abducted approximately 250 hostages during its attack on Israel.
TODD HUFF: Now, fast forward to today. Recent — well, this past week — Israel and Hamas have negotiated a ceasefire and the release of the remaining hostages. Up until this point in time, approximately 150 hostages had been released — 145 to 155, that’s the estimate. About 70 to 90 of those have been confirmed dead this week.
TODD HUFF: This week, just now, today, 20 living hostages were released under these new ceasefire terms. I believe I saw that there are 28 deceased hostages whose bodies are still to be recovered or handed over to the Israeli government and to families and so forth. So that accounts for all of the remaining hostages held by the terrorist organization Hamas.
TODD HUFF: Now, in addition to that, Israel is planning on releasing approximately 2,000 — I think it may be closer to 1,900 — Palestinian detainees. That’s the framework. Now, this is considered phase one of the ceasefire framework and agreement. It’s a broader plan to bring peace to the area.
TODD HUFF: It covers things like disarmament. It covers things like reconstruction of this area. And it also covers things regarding the future governance of Gaza, which is a major problem. Hamas — listen, Hamas has been elected. They were chosen by the Palestinians to represent them.
TODD HUFF: Now, are there other shenanigans involved? Were there threats and all that? Listen, Hamas is evil. Hamas is a terrorist organization. I don’t know how else to make this any clearer. Hamas is the embodiment of evil, my friends. They’re the ones who created this and caused this.
TODD HUFF: Of course, they’ll cite all sorts of reasons and rationale that supposedly — in their deranged thinking, or at least from their narrative — justifies the atrocious acts of wickedness and evil that they unleashed on the Israelis just a little over two years ago.
TODD HUFF: So there is going to be a transitional authority that includes international oversight from the United States, from Egypt, and from Qatar, who mediate the situation. The way that this is going to be enforced remains a little bit uncertain. There’s not a firm system that’s in place yet, at least that is being reported.
TODD HUFF: There’s not yet a structure that can confirm and verify the disarmament portion of this agreement, the oversight for aid, or just policing this situation in general. There’s a regional summit that has been planned to finalize the reconstruction and the details of governance. And so that’s kind of in a nutshell what’s happened here.
TODD HUFF: Now, what I want to say here, first and foremost, is — listen, I listen to the left a lot. I’m on TikTok. Let me say this, let me just throw this in there today. I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this.
TODD HUFF: Earlier this year, or late last year — earlier this year — we were having tremendous success in reaching new folks on TikTok. I mean, we were getting thousands of new followers a month for a few months on TikTok, end of last year, beginning of this year.
TODD HUFF: And I don’t know what happened. I’m not going to whine about whatever’s happened on TikTok. I’m just telling you as I think about this and some of the comments that I’ve heard on TikTok. I’m not sure what we’re going to do with our TikTok channel.
TODD HUFF: There are two options. We’ve been locked into the world of leftists. We’re on the wrong side of TikTok, as people say. And this goes deep — this goes into the algorithm, this goes into some other things, like shadow banning and so forth. Again, I’m just telling you, I’m telling you.
TODD HUFF: But I use TikTok for one reason now, because our growth has completely stagnated there. We’ve been flatlined for basically, I don’t know, the last six months. And our videos are just getting in front of people who are rabid leftists — which is fine, because that’s where I share with you some of the things that I hear.
TODD HUFF: In fact, I’ll put those in the newsletter that you can subscribe to for free, and we talk about some of these things. But this is where I get some of the things I tell you about the left — I see it. Some of these folks are rabid and out of control.
TODD HUFF: It’s not the only place I see it. It’s not the only encounters I’ve had with the left. I’ve had my share of encounters with the left over the past — gee, 30 years now or so. Anyway, the point here is to say — I don’t know what I’m going to do with TikTok.
TODD HUFF: We may continue to use it just to pull some content that you’ll find entertaining in the newsletter, or we might stop using it for a while to see if we can reset the algorithm and actually get in front of conservatives on there and actually grow and get our message out and use that platform.
TODD HUFF: But anyway, the point here is to say, right now I hear a lot of things on TikTok, and one of the things I hear is kind of a mockery of Trump. “Trump needs to — this guy’s written The Art of the Deal and he doesn’t know what he’s doing,” right? This is the argument against Trump.
TODD HUFF: As though we didn’t have a president the four previous years. What, by the way, did Biden ever negotiate? What did he ever negotiate? I mean, it looks like he negotiated allegedly good deals for his son, Hunter — good kickbacks for his family — but what did he ever negotiate that was in the best interest of this nation?
TODD HUFF: Did he negotiate an end to or prevent the invasion of Ukraine by Russia? Did he prevent what happened on October 7? No, he did not. He did not end those things. Now, you can say Trump hasn’t ended the war in Ukraine either, which — listen, I understand.
TODD HUFF: But the bottom line here is to say, at least be consistent. At least be consistent. Trump has been involved — this country has been involved — in a lot of peace agreements lately. And this is one of them. Now, the left, of course, will minimize Trump’s role in this.
TODD HUFF: But the reality remains clear that these things happen, these sorts of things happen with Trump in office. They did not happen with Joseph Robinette Biden in office. And so the reality is that Trump had a role. Now, is Trump going to say his role was central?
TODD HUFF: Is there a chance that Trump overexaggerates the role he has? Certainly. But is there a chance that the media and the left are going to underestimate the role Trump had? Absolutely. And that’s kind of the reality of the situation here.
TODD HUFF: Now, I will tell you this. It is unequivocally, undoubtedly confirmed that the U.S. acted as a central mediator between Israel, Egypt, and Qatar to secure this ceasefire and the exchange of hostages.
TODD HUFF: Now, what isn’t clear is how much personal leverage or direct negotiation Trump used with both sides. However, it does say something that he is speaking at the Israeli Knesset — in fact, that was happening prior to my coming on this program today.
TODD HUFF: So there was diplomatic pressure that was employed by the United States, coordination pushed by other countries as well, but of course the United States of America is the big player — there’s no doubt about this.
TODD HUFF: Trump’s out there talking about this being the “historic dawn of a new Middle East.” He, of course, takes credit for the ceasefire. He deserves some credit. The fair question can be, how much credit should he get? But he certainly had a role in negotiating this particular settlement.
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TODD HUFF: I mean, peace is always something that we should seek to achieve. I’m reminded of Ronald Reagan’s statement or the way that he talked about achieving peace through strength. You can’t achieve peace if you don’t have some capacity to make sure that peace is actually enforced.
TODD HUFF: I’m reminded when there might be a fight at school or whatever — a bully on the playground, so to speak. The way to stop a bully isn’t to say “pretty please.” You’re not just trying to have peace at all costs. You have to have peace that uses both the carrot and the stick, right? You’ve got to have strength in order to have peace.
TODD HUFF: You can’t have peace with your enemy if they don’t have respect for you. That’s a key component. I’m reminded of fights that I interfered with — a fight in particular, years ago, when I was in college. Anyway, you don’t break up fights or prevent fights if the bully thinks the bully can beat the tar out of you.
TODD HUFF: You’ve got to have some ability to be strong in the face of that. The Bible talks about “Blessed are the peacemakers,” right? Blessed are the peacemakers. You don’t want to be a peacekeeper where you’re thinking about how to keep there from being controversy and conflict and disagreement.
TODD HUFF: You say, “Look, there’s going to be disagreement, but here’s the line. Dude, we’re not doing this. This is an unacceptable line.” Hamas, you’re going to release the hostages. You’re going to do that. We’re going to have other steps. And we’re going to look at the things that you’re looking to achieve as well.
TODD HUFF: Because we’re going to negotiate some framework here that both sides can live with, that both sides desire in some capacity. But we’re going to enforce — there has to be an enforcement mechanism if you’re really someone who’s interested in making peace.
TODD HUFF: And so that’s what we’ve got here. Now, I will say, in another sense, that we know — and I don’t want to get into the whole history of this. We’ve done this before. In fact, I’ve considered having guests on here who know much more about this than I do, talk about the level and depth of the history of this.
TODD HUFF: And maybe I’ll do this for a little bit. We’ve got a couple of minutes here. But the depth of the historical chasm, and the divide and the tensions — I mean, this truly goes back. It does. It goes back to Abraham and Isaac and Ishmael.
TODD HUFF: All thousands of years ago. Abraham — in fact, I saw a clip of Trump’s speech today when he says Jerusalem is the city of the three great faiths, and that would be Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as Trump was referring to them. He called them the Abrahamic faiths.
TODD HUFF: And there’s a reason for that, because all three claim Abraham as a patriarch. Of course, for the Jewish people, it’s obvious. Abraham was the one that, in the biblical narrative, God called to be the father of many nations. He was the father of Isaac. Isaac was the father of Jacob. Jacob was the father — well, Jacob became Israel.
TODD HUFF: That’s where we get this. That’s where we get the name and the narrative — the information about who these people are. And the Christian faith says that Abraham was the father of — of course, the father of Isaac, Jacob, and of the twelve tribes of Israel.
TODD HUFF: But in addition to that, Abraham served as kind of a spiritual representation of all the children that God would have — of all peoples around the world, Jews and Gentiles, through Jesus Christ His Son. And the Muslims say that Abraham, of course, was the father through his wife’s maidservant, Hagar.
TODD HUFF: He was the father of Ishmael as well. Ishmael, of course, is where the narrative for the Muslim, for Islamic teaching begins. He’s in the descendants of bringing the message of the Quran and the Islamic faith and Muhammad and all this. That’s where that kind of, I guess, the branches split from Abraham.
TODD HUFF: But this goes back deep. It’s deep to that particular problem. I’m just out of time this segment. Got to take a break, my friends. Sit tight — back here in just a minute.
TODD HUFF: Welcome back, my friends. Before the break, we were just touching a little bit on the level and the depth and how far back this problem can actually be traced — the tensions between Islam and Judaism in particular. We were talking about Abraham, the Abrahamic faiths, as people say.
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TODD HUFF: All right, let’s get back here to the conversation about a little bit about the history here. And again, I’m probably going to move us off the point of getting to the other topics I do want to get to, or at least shorten our ability to talk about them. But it does matter, because peace should be pursued.
TODD HUFF: What are you supposed to do, right? The Bible has verses like where it says, people talk about peace, peace, peace, but there will be war. And so, on the one hand, depending upon your perspective from a biblical viewpoint, you might think, man, how do you even approach this? But peace should be pursued.
TODD HUFF: Peace should be pursued, but we also have to be realistic about this and understand that this problem runs deep and that the hatred — the hatred — runs incredibly deep. The hatred of the Jewish people is incredibly deep, and it’s tied — I don’t care what anybody says — it’s tied to the nation of Israel’s relationship, historical relationship, with the God of the Bible, with Yahweh.
TODD HUFF: And people hate God. I know that sounds harsh. Look, there are people who are genuinely disillusioned, confused, and things like that, but there are also people who have set themselves up in direct opposition to Almighty God. They hate Him because they don’t like His rules. They don’t like — I mean, you take this back to really the Garden of Eden or the fall of Lucifer.
TODD HUFF: There’s this desire, there’s this desire for God’s created beings — some of them, I would say all of us, all humanity to a point — we all have a desire, it’s under our sinful nature, to be kind of the boss of our own lives. To some extent, we have the freedom to choose, but in the greater sense, the Bible says you’re either slaves to sin or your servants of Christ.
TODD HUFF: And that’s the choice that we have to make. And so when there is so much hatred for the God of the Bible, it’s not surprising that it’s directed at the people through whom the message of the Bible was delivered and the people who tried to live in accordance with the Old Testament covenant. That’s what Israel has tried to do.
TODD HUFF: Now, that does not mean — hear me say this — that there’s no wrong Israel can do. That’s not the case. But as a Christian, to overlook or to just kind of brush off the fact that this is who the original covenant, the Old Testament covenant, was with — you just can’t brush that off. That’s a big deal.
TODD HUFF: They were chosen by God to be the lineage that ultimately led to Christ, who ultimately sacrificed Himself for the sins of everyone, not just in that particular lineage. So there’s hatred — the hatred there is as deep as hatred gets, because the hatred just isn’t about petty jealousies or disagreements with another individual.
TODD HUFF: This goes to the core of our existence. Am I submitting to the God of the universe, or am I going to be God myself? Am I going to define what is right and wrong, or am I going to subject myself to the One who determines — through the moral law, through His creation, through His will — what is right and what is wrong?
TODD HUFF: And there is this great tension. Now, you add to that, you add to that this tension that the two groups are saying — one of them says the promise, that promise of God to Abraham went through Isaac, which it did biblically, through the Jewish tradition. That is the correct tradition. That’s accurate as to what happened.
TODD HUFF: But you have an entire group of people also that believe that that blessing, that lineage, went through Ishmael. And it’s fascinating to look back at the history of this, because if you know the story in the Old Testament about Abraham, he had a wife named Sarah. God promised them that they were going to have descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and sands on the seashore.
TODD HUFF: By the way, I don’t know if you realize this, but scientists tell us that there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on the seashores — dramatically more — which is mind-blowing to me. But nonetheless, it’s a big, big number, was the point. That’s what God was trying to tell Abraham and Sarah.
TODD HUFF: But they were old. They were too old to have children, so Abraham kind of took matters — Abraham and Sarah — it was actually Sarah’s idea. Sarah came to Abraham and said, “Look, I’ve got this maidservant. You and I can’t have a child. God promised us one. We’ve waited for a while. Nothing’s happened. Why don’t you go and have a baby with her, and maybe that’s the way that this is all going to work out.”
TODD HUFF: And that’s what Abraham did. And of course, you can imagine what it caused. It caused jealousy and contention and just all these sorts of things to the point where Sarah and Hagar — Hagar was her maidservant — Sarah basically got to the point where she said, “I don’t want Hagar and Ishmael around anymore.”
TODD HUFF: This was after she and Abraham actually conceived and had Isaac. I want to say it was 13 years — it was some number of years later. And so she said, “I want him out of here. I don’t want the inheritance of my son to be at risk because Ishmael is hanging around here and all this. We’re getting old, Abraham, we’re not going to be around forever,” sort of thing.
TODD HUFF: So Abraham basically sent them on their way. This is where that split happens. And the Muslim faith and tradition says that Abraham actually took Ishmael up to Mount Moriah, which is right there in Jerusalem — right there where you’ll find the Temple Mount today, right where Jesus was crucified 2,000 years ago in that same area.
TODD HUFF: The biblical story is that he took Isaac, his son that he bore with Sarah, the promised one that God had promised as a descendant. But the Islamic story is that he took Ishmael up the mountain. In fact, I’ve heard stories — I forget the apologist who told this — but a Muslim leader who was involved to some degree in terroristic things sat down with him.
TODD HUFF: And he said basically — I thought it was a beautiful thing — he said, “You all believe that Abraham took Ishmael up the mountain. Others believe he took Isaac up the mountain. But until we realize that He sent His own Son to die right here on these mountains — Jesus Christ — this tension and turmoil is going to exist.”
TODD HUFF: But this runs deep. This runs very, very deep. And again, we might have peace for a season, my friends, and I hope we do. I hope that this improves the situation. But the reality is that this is much, much deeper. And candidly, I don’t know how you ever — I don’t know that it’s even remotely solvable in the long term.
TODD HUFF: Again, hopefully we have a long period of peace here. But the reality is, while we should certainly try to make the peace and find peace and absolutely get the release of these hostages, we have to have our eyes wide open as to what we’re really dealing with. And I’ve got to take a break, my friends. Sit tight — back in just a minute.
TODD HUFF: Welcome back, my friends. I’m not going to get to the other topics today. I’m just not. I should have known this coming in. I mean, maybe we’ll talk in the closing minutes — just mention a couple of things. So I’m probably not going to get to the 13th day of the government shutdown.
TODD HUFF: I definitely am not going to get to the conversation about the National Guard troop pay. I guess I could mention that. Trump has ordered the — I guess the Pentagon — to basically find ways to make sure that the troops are paid because they’re now, I think the 15th is payday, and Trump’s saying, “Look, we’re not going to cut the pay of troops,” which is apparently part of the shutdown.
TODD HUFF: Which, that’s a whole other discussion — the craziness that’s involved with that. Why are we paying some people and not everybody? Well, does Congress get paid? I can’t remember if they actually do now or not. I think that they do, but maybe I’m wrong.
TODD HUFF: But why are we paying some people, not others? I mean, it’s almost clearly designed by the people who put together the rules to inflict pain on certain people for political advantages. Anyway, not going to be able to get into that today because of this discussion.
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TODD HUFF: Now, some of you might wonder why all this Bible talk about this today — what’s the relevance of this? The relevance is that this traces itself back to that period of time. This is a story that literally can be found, can be traced back to the Bible. And this is something — the Bible is a collection of 66 individual books.
TODD HUFF: And there’s a story, there’s a narrative. The narrative of the Old Testament, the Hebrew Scriptures, if you will — the first 39 books of the Bible — tell the story, by and large, of this particular people, not exclusively. But very early on — we had Adam and Eve, we had Noah, we had not long after that — early into the chapters of Genesis, you got Abraham being called Abraham.
TODD HUFF: Getting this promise about Isaac and being the father of many nations. And then you’ve got the story of God working with the people of Israel, the nation of Israel — well, to set themselves apart, to give them a land, which is the same land that we’re talking about today.
TODD HUFF: I mean, in general terms — it’s the same place. It’s just we’re talking about Hamas, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank. There are other places in Israel, but we’re talking about that spot. We’re talking about Jerusalem. We’re talking about maybe the Temple Mount and all these things — Mount Moriah. We talked about that in the story of Abraham and Isaac.
TODD HUFF: But the narrative of the Old Testament is God using that people to prepare the way — to prepare the way for the Messiah. And it’s so rich. This is the second time I’ve gone through this Bible study, which I highly recommend — and which, by the way, I’m considering doing something where we could have people, if you want to go through that study together.
TODD HUFF: I don’t know, to kind of do it together after the first of the year. Anyway, that’s just on my mind. I don’t know that we’ll do that, but the point is, even if we don’t, it’s a great study. It’s called The Bible Recap by Tara-Leigh Cobble. But the narrative of the story leads us to Christ, leads us to Jesus.
TODD HUFF: The birth of Christ is really the hinge point of the Old and the New Testament. Now there’s 400 years of silence at the end of the Old Testament before we start hearing about Mary and Joseph and John the Baptist and Jesus. But the rest of the book — the rest of the New Testament, the 27 books — talk about, starting in the Gospels, the life, the death, the resurrection of Jesus.
TODD HUFF: Talk about what happened, how the message spread, what the early church did. And it’s a series of letters about how the church should behave, how they should interpret the things now that the Messiah has come — the Messiah that died once for all, not like the sacrificial lamb that had to be sacrificed every year on the Day of Atonement, which just passed, by the way, not too long ago.
TODD HUFF: But you have all this story. And then you end with a book of prophecy, apocalyptic literature called the Book of Revelation, where you’ll hear some of these things — peace, peace, peace, war, and all this sort of thing. And these things matter.
TODD HUFF: And we start to see this — at least you can tell that this narrative is what part of it’s playing out. We don’t know. People can have their opinions, but we can see that the nations and the types of tension clearly exist today. And so that’s why it matters, and that’s why it’s tied in.
TODD HUFF: And this issue runs incredibly, incredibly deep — back to the faiths of people that can be traced back for thousands and thousands of years. Folks, I’ve got to go. Got to run. SDG.
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