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Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, this was true during his first term when he brokered the Abraham Accords. It's even more true today. The president of the United States has brokered a phase one deal between Israel and Hamas with the support of legitimately everybody in the region and all the countries all over Europe as well, in favor of the full-scale release of 20 living hostages who have been kept in solitude, in tunnels, starved for two years at this point, since October 7, 2023.
And the president deserves full marks for this. So, too, does the prime minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, who has steadfastly said that Israel would get back its hostages and also would win the war. There's a lot of talk about Netanyahu caving, doing partial hostage deals. There's a lot of pressure for him to do so.
Instead, he said everybody comes out. The president of the United States not only backed that play, he brokered the deal itself. And we have yet to see what the rest of the deal will look like. So, just to understand where we are, there's a phase one deal.
In that phase one deal, the hostages are supposed to be released. The living hostages are supposed to be released, probably by Monday. That's what the president of the United States said. It could be earlier.
Hamas is claiming that they don't have the bodies of the 28 deceased hostages. The remaining hostages were supposed to be handed over. Those corpses apparently are dispersed across the Gaza Strip. Hamas wants more time to go look for those dead bodies.
We know they played games about this sort of stuff before. In return, Israel is going to release some 250 Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons, as well as 1,700 Palestinian terrorists who have been detained in Gaza for fighting Israel during the war. It's unclear who's on the list at this point. Israel also withdraws to a pre-set line inside the Gaza Strip, not to what would be a sort of final settlement line, which would involve a buffer zone around the edge of the Gaza Strip, with a provisional government in place and all the rest, but some percentage of the enclave will be pulled back to by the IDF.
And the raffle crossing with Egypt apparently is supposed to open to facilitate aid delivery in. Now, of course, that is dangerous for Israel, because facilitated aid by Egypt into the Gaza Strip presumably could be used by Hamas to rearm. And so what happens in phase two is going to be very important here, just in terms of fully ending the war, in terms of this not just being a ceasefire. But achieving the release of the hostages is a massive step forward, particularly for Israel, because if Hamas no longer holds hostages, then at that point, Hamas is leveraging Israel to stop Israel from killing their terror leaders and destroying terror enclaves.
That leverage goes away. Hamas is counting on pressure from the United States and the Arab world to prevent Israel from doing that in the future and allowing Hamas to reconstitute. I highly doubt that President Trump is going to be warm to allow Hamas to reconstitute. In fact, even the Arab world is not warm toward that anymore.
Al-Jazeera over the weekend, Al-Jazeera, which is a Qatari-backed propagandist group, on behalf of terrorism all across the region, Al-Jazeera put out an editorial calling on Hamas to disarm. So even Qatar understands at this point that Hamas cannot be a part of the Gaza future. President Trump announced this on Truth Social. He said, I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan.
This means that all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will draw their troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps for a strong, durable, and everlasting peace. All parties will be treated fairly. This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America. And we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this historic and unprecedented events happen.
Blessed are the peacemakers. And again, President Trump deserves full marks, because it was President Trump who not only brokered the seal, but completely changed the math around on the seal. In terms of public relations, obviously, Israel has been subjected to two years of full-scale legacy media lies, TikTok lies, social media lies. There were claims that Israel was committed a genocide within literally the first week of the war, and those claims only escalated thanks to the virality of the claims and the repetition in the legacy media of those claims, which were never true the entire war.
But there's no question that Israel suffered a lot in terms of public relations to the point where there were nations moving to isolate Israel, up to and including trying to preliminarily declare a Palestinian state with no government, no borders, and no responsibility for their own citizens. President Trump shifted that around. President Trump took a look at the situation, and he said, listen, we're going to get to a deal now. And then he put pressure in the right places.
He offered carrots, and he offered sticks. And in a moment, I'm going to get to what changed here. Because that's really the question. What changed between October 7, 2023, and October 8, 2025?
What changed to allow for the full-scale release of the hostages and the possible end of the war? We'll get to that in just a second. The Prime Minister of Israel put out a statement. He said, with the approval of the first phase of the plan, all our hostages will be brought home.
This is a diplomatic success and a national and moral victory for the state of Israel. From the beginning, I made it clear, we will not rest until all our hostages return and all our goals are achieved. Through steadfast resolve, powerful military action, and the great efforts of our great friend and ally, President Trump, we've reached this critical turning point. I thank President Trump for his leadership, his partnership, and his unwavering commitment to the safety of Israel and freedom of our hostages.
God bless Israel, God bless America, God bless our great alliance. Of course, I spoke with the Prime Minister just a couple of days ago. You may view that interview over on YouTube or listen to it on any of our RSS feeds to understand the Prime Minister's view of the war, how far Israel has come, and where Israel stands in the region at this time. The President of the United States is scheduled to go to Egypt, to presumably sign the agreement, and then travel on to Israel where he's now scheduled to address the Israeli parliament at Knesset on Sunday.
The level of excitement, not only for the deal, but for President Trump to visit, so that they can celebrate President Trump is extraordinary. I don't think there will be anything remotely like it, frankly, in Israeli history with regard to a welcome for a leader from the United States. President Trump has a 95% approval rating in the state of Israel, and that is for a reason, because President Trump inherently understands the Middle East in a way that Westerners typically do not understand the Middle East. He understands that the Middle East power rules.
He understands that the Middle East, there is no solution but moving through. He understands that the Middle East concessions are seen generally as a sign of weakness. And what he understands most of all is that the United States' role very often is to provide the carrot while Israel provides the stick. All of the lies that conflict can't be solved through military power, that is untrue.
Because fundamentally what changed between October 7th, 2023, and October 8th, 2025, is that the state of Israel destroyed its enemies on a wide variety of fronts. That is the thing fundamentally that changed. And then the United States has come in at the end and offered the assurances necessary to Americas, Arab allies, and regional allies. And Israel provided the stick to many of those same people to compel them to get Hamas, to give up the ghost and release the hostages.
Hamas has put out a statement as well after responsible and serious negotiations between the movements and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President Trump's proposal in Sharm el-Sheikh, which is in Egypt, with the aim of ending the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, the Islamic resistance movement in Hamas announces the signing of an agreement stipulating the end of the war in Gaza to withdraw the occupation from it, the entry of it, and a prisoner exchange. Okay, so, let's just be clear, the agreement does not do all of those things. It does not actually formally end the war in Gaza, that is, get to happen in stage 2 or stage 3. The quote-unquote withdrawal of the occupation from Gaza, Israel will be withdrawing from certain areas in exchange for the hostages, but certainly not a total military withdrawal, that would be foolhardy and idiotic.
Israel cannot withdraw from an area that is still occupied by terrorists. That was precisely the problem in 2005 when Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip to the tender mercies of Hamas. Hamas continues to greatly appreciate the efforts of our brothers mediating in Qatar Egypt and Turkey. We also appreciate the efforts of President Donald Trump, who seeks to bring about a final end to the war and the complete withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip.
Again, this is Hamas projecting. We call on President Trump, the country is guaranteeing the agreement and various Arab-Islamic and international parties to compel the occupation government to fully implement the terms of the agreement and not allow it to evade or delay the implementation of what was agreed upon. So now Hamas is going to try to claim more was in the agreement than was in the agreement in order to put pressure on Israel because they do not have the military capacity to withstand Israel. And thanks to the pressure, largely, of its heirs to while allies, Qatar and Turkey.
Understand, the funding mechanisms for Hamas were Qatar and Turkey. When those went away, then Hamas was isolated. And at that point, all they basically have left is verbiage. And then Hamas continues.
We salute our great people in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, and in the West Bank, both inside, the homeland, and abroad, have demonstrated unprecedented pride, heroes, and honor in confronting the fascist occupation's plans directed against them in their national rights again. Hilarious to hear Hamas, an actual fascist, genocidal, invading force, talking about Israel, a democracy, as a fascist occupation. The sacrifices of our people were not in vain. Yes, not only were they in vain, the quote-unquote sacrifices of Hamas, it was the worst own goal in the history of the Middle East.
What Hamas did is the worst own goal in the history of the Middle East. In a moment, we'll get into what changed here. What actually are the conditions that led to this breakthrough? But first, let me be blunt.
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It's a great honor to be involved in it. We had some tremendous help, as you know, with everybody from Steve Wyckoff and Jared Kushner and Marco, and we had everybody. JD, the whole group was just amazing. And the military was, as you know, very instrumentally getting this done.
We have a great military with great leadership. The whole world came together, to be honest. So many countries that you wouldn't have even thought of it, and they came together. The world has come together around this deal.
And that's something I would say that without that, it wouldn't happen. So many countries that you wouldn't have thought of it, have wired their best wishes and their commitment to do whatever is necessary. The country surrounding have all signed. I mean, they're all signed up, and it's been really an amazing period of time.
And so great for Israel, so great for Muslims, for the Arab countries, and so great for this country, for the United States of America, and that we could be involved in making a deal like this happen. Because it was, you know, many years they talked about peace in the Middle East. This is more than Gaza. This is peace in the Middle East, and it's an incredible thing.
Well, again, President Trump sees this as the opening to a broader peace in the Middle East. This is just the beginning. Because once this war is over, then there is seriously the possibility of a bunch of Abraham Accords happening, including in Saudi Arabia, including places like Indonesia, places that are not necessarily even in the region. There's no question the President of the United States deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
I mean, who else is going to get a Kuhnberg? If anyone but President Trump receives the Nobel Peace Prize this year, then it just demonstrates, I mean, it's hard to demonstrate it over and over. What a complete bleep show the Nobel Committee is. But if they don't give him the Peace Prize, then it just demonstrates full scale how ridiculous that Barack Obama received one for being alive and breathing and being elected President of the United States.
Yasser Arafat received a Nobel Peace Prize, the arch-terror master. Donald Trump, if you can't give him the Nobel Peace Prize, The big thing is, hostages are going to be released. It's probably, our time would be probably Monday. And, you know, it's, they're terribly, a terrible situation.
They're deep, they're deep in the earth, and they're being gotten, and a lot of things are happening right now. As we speak, so much is happening to get the hostages freed, and we think they'll all be coming back on Monday. So, it looks like that's the thing, and that'll include the bodies of the dead. Okay, so, again, that's obviously huge news.
Everybody here in Israel right now, again, I came to Israel for the Jewish holiday, everybody here in Israel is, at the very least, relieved, and I would say the overwhelming feeling is ecstatic to get the hostages home. This has been the main issue that has been driving internal dissent and debate inside of Israel. There's unity against Hamas, and there has been since October 7th, but there's been a lot of roiling inside of Israel about the status of the hostages, what can be done to free them. President Trump said, it's not just going to end with the hostage release, Gaza will end up in a safer place.
And this is where, what happens in stage 2, stage 3, that's where that matters. Hamas cannot remain in charge, obviously, of the Gaza Strip. Hamas does have to be disarmed, some sort of provisional authority, we would hope under Tony Blair or someone like that, would have to take place. The place needs to be made safe, and then investment dollars that go in will be used to actually build things, as opposed to terror tunnels and rockets, which is what Hamas spent all the money on for the last 20 years or so.
Here's President Trump talking about the future of Gaza. Well, Gaza's going to be a peaceful, much safer place. Obviously, it's been blown to pieces, and this is just not by Israel. This is over years and years and years.
It's been heartache for many years. A lot of people say this is a deal for 3,000 years. So, whether you say 500, because some people say 500 is based on events, but other people say this is something historic for 3,000 years. There's nothing ever going to be bigger than this.
And so Gaza, we believe, is going to be a much safer place, and it's going to be a place that reconstructs, and other countries in the area will help it reconstruct, because they have tremendous amounts of wealth, and they want to see that happen. And we'll be involved in helping them make it successful and helping it stay peaceful, but I think it's going to be peaceful. I think, again, the Iran situation was very important, doing what we had to do, which was, again, 22 years. It was planned to be done, and no other president wanted to do it or whatever for whatever reason, but they didn't do it.
And having that was very important. But, you know, I'm very confident there'll be peace in the Middle East. I mean, the words peace in the Middle East are something people have been striving for for hundreds of years, for centuries, for many centuries, and we really have, every country has come together. So, again, what happens next in Gaza is going to matter an awful lot, and that will require some oversight, because Gazans apparently run in the streets celebrating the deal.
Any time there's a ceasefire, there's a celebration in Gaza, because it means that Gaza stops getting walloped, obviously, but it also means a false claim of victory. Apparently, many Gazans run in the street, chanting their usual anti-Semite chant of Haibar Haibar Ya Yahud, which is a celebration of a passage in the Quran in which Muhammad wipes out a Jewish city, essentially. So, you know, again, the idea that Palestinians have suddenly become moderate, it was not true in the first place. It's still not true.
What happens next is what has to happen in every area that is rife with crime and violence and genocidal thought, which is, it has to be made quiet. But the first step toward that is the release of the Israeli hostages. And again, it seems as though there's unity in the region on the idea that Hamas not only needs to be ousted, but that the Gaza Strip needs to become a quiescent place. President Trump talked about the fact that he was able to form a coalition with the Arab nations in order to achieve this.
A lot of the Arab nations that have formed coalitions with you were reluctant and resistant for decades to ever be a part of the solution. That was a big part of what happened here today. Can you explain that part of it? Well, I develop relationships with people, and sometimes those relationships lead to great things.
In the case of many of the Arab nations, they're the wealthiest nations in the world, if you look. Although, with what we've done in the United States, I think we top everybody. So, he's right about this, obviously. Coming up, more on this amazing deal that President Trump has cut.
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And again, the future of the Middle East is happening right now. The reshaping of the Middle East. The President Trump made the point in this interview with Sean Hannity. It's a great point that one of the preconditions to this deal happening was the elimination of the Iranian nuclear capacity.
It was absolutely crucial because, again, we'll go through the timeline in a moment. When you look at this war, essentially what happened is that you had a seven-front war on Israel from a variety of enemies. And one by one, the threats were removed in each of those areas. And finally, Kamas had no support upon which to stand.
And when that happened, then you finally got a ceasefire and a possible move toward peace. That's what has to happen. Remove all the support structures beneath the terror masters and they collapse. Here's President Trump talking about the necessity of the United States' single-B2 sortie that took out the NATO's nuclear facility in Iran.
Well, Iran was about one month, maybe two months away from having a nuclear weapon. And if I allowed that to happen, this deal would not have been possible. Or if it was, it would have a tremendous clout over it because you'd have a country with a nuclear weapon that was not obviously very friendly. And the power of nuclear weapons is something that we shouldn't be talking about at so massive.
So by doing that, we now have something where actually Iran and I and Iran a deal, but it's a very much different Iran. And frankly, we've had some very good conversations. And as you saw, they blessed the deal. They put out a few hours ago a statement that they agree with the deal and they blessed the deal.
That's a tremendous thing. I believe if they had a nuclear weapon, it would be a whole different. Even if we made the deal, it would literally have a very dark cloud over it because of what could potentially happen. So now there are no dark clouds.
We're going to have peace. And by the way, I believe Iran is going to be actually a part of the whole peace situation. But countries that frankly didn't get along, they're all involved. And it's brought the whole world together.
It's amazing. So what changed? And this is the question. What changed between October 7th, 2023 and October 8th, 2025, which is when the deal effectively was made.
It was announced in the early morning hours of October 9th. And again, the anniversary means something here. I mean, we are coming up on Simchat Torah, which is the Hebrew date upon which this attack was launched when Mila Sukkot right now, which is a Jewish holiday that lasts in Israel seven days, it lasts eight days outside of Israel. That is slated for the beginning of next week.
And so it's quite possible the hostages will be released essentially on the eve of the day that the war started two years ago. What changed? Because something changed. Because Hamas could have given up all the hostages right away, and they could have surrendered right away, and then all this could have been avoided, or they could have never done October 7th.
But something changed. To understand, you actually have to look at the timeline. Again, here is the point. When people say that war doesn't work, or force doesn't work, well, when you have an intransigent enemy that attacks you, it turns out that actually force and war are the only way to remove their capacity to harm you and undermine them.
Hamas invaded Israel October 7th, 2023. They killed 1,200 people, mainly Jews, and they took 250 hostages. Hezbollah, which was a Lebanese terror group, backed by Iran, essentially an Iranian proxy, in the north of Israel in Lebanon, they began launching small strikes in the northern neck, gradually escalated into major rocket assaults, and emptied the north of Israel of hundreds of thousands of citizens. Hundreds of thousands of people in Israel left their homes and moved south in Israel.
So when the war began, essentially Israel was on retreat in Gaza, and they started already on retreat in the north of Israel. Before Israel even struck back, the propaganda war began. Massive protests in the streets in favor of Hamas. Within days, those protests started promoting a lie of Israeli genocide, which of course escalated over the course of two years, two long years.
Now, there were some very short ceasefires that were reached in order to exchange prisoners. So Israel responded overwhelmingly in mid to late October, and by early November, a short ceasefire was reached, including a prisoner exchange, with 105 hostages released at the time. Presumably an attempt by Hamas to force all what was to come next, but that ceasefire ended because Hamas was still in place, and Israel was not going to leave the body of terrorists who had been running in place for 20 years in place. In January 2024, there was another small ceasefire of 16 hostages were released.
There was another small hostage released in January 2025. There was a special release of Eda and Alexander, the sole American who was being held at that point in custody, in hostage situations by Hamas, in order for Hamas to try to pay some sort of tribute to President Trump. Massive terrorist release in exchange on Israel's side for Eda and Alexander. In February 2025, there were another six.
In February, there were another three. Okay, so for all of those hostages, Israel released literally thousands of terrorists, people who had received the death penalty for terrorism. There is no death penalty in Israel they received life sentences. We're talking about thousands of terrorists, hundreds of whom have received life sentences for terrorism and for murder and for attempted murder.
And these were released by Israel in exchange in the middle of a war, knowing that a huge percentage of these people were probably going to go back to the war. So, it wasn't, there were temporary hostage releases, these sort of happened short-term, they didn't stop the war. What actually happened? If you look at a map of the Middle East, Israel won on every single front, on every single front.
On April 1st, Israel decided it would no longer be allowing Iran to essentially spread its terror tentacles throughout the region. Because all the various forces throughout the region that were fighting Israel were backed by Iran. Hamas was backed by Iran. Hamas and Islam Jihad in the so-called West Bank, Judea, is married, back by Iran.
Syria, the Assad regime, was being backed by Kizbala, which was backed by Iran. Kizbala in Lebanon was backed by Iran. There were forces in Iraq who were backed by Iran. Iran itself had been attacking Israel.
Israel and the Houthis in Yemen had been attacking, they of course are supported by Iran. So, Israel began defenestrating every single one of these pillars. So, on April 1st, 2024, Israel killed two top Iranian generals in Damascus, making clear to the Iranians that they would not be allowing Iran to up the ante in places like Syria, that they wouldn't allow another front to open in Syria. In response, Iran hired a few missiles into Israel.
Israel then killed Ismail Khania, who was the political leader of Hamas, on July 31st, 2024, in an assassination in Iran. Khania had been living in Qatar. He went to Iran for some sort of big festival on behalf of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment, and he was killed in Iran. On September 17th, 2024, Israel opened the front against Kizbala, so Kizbala again had cleared the entire north of Israel.
There was no one living in these areas. Because of the constant rocket attacks, Israel launched the single most targeted and brilliant anti-terror campaign in the history of the world, that people attacked on Kizbala, where they literally had Kizbala distributed pagers blow up on the members of Kizbala with minimal cost to civilians. There will not be no cost to civilians when you're attacking terrorists, but minimal cost, like the single most targeted attack in human history. Days later, Israel entered Lebanon, cleared the staff of Kizbala, and slammed Kizbala targets throughout the country.
On September 27th, 2024, they killed the charismatic leader of Kizbala, Hassan at Nasrallah. They bombed him into the ground, literally into the ground. He was in a bunker underneath a building, and they hit the building with a bunch of 10,000 pound bombs, and killed Nasrallah. That prompted Iran, who again had supported Nasrallah and Kizbala, to fire a few more missiles into Israel.
Just a couple of weeks after that, Israel killed Yassinwar, who was the mastermind of October 7th, and the military leader of Hamas. They also killed Mohammed Daif, who was the military leader of Hamas, in the Gaza Strip. Thanks to the defenestration of Kizbala, Bashar al-Assad fell in Syria because he did not have the support of Kizbala, who is not in fact toppled by the Israelis, who is in fact toppled by the Turks. The Turks backed a terrorist group called HTS, which ran down from the north of Syria, and basically just took Damascus.
So Assad fell as a result of him lacking the support base of Kizbala. And then, of course, June 12th, 25th, Israel began attacking Iran's nuclear infrastructure, launching the famed 12-day war that ended with President Trump giving the order to destroy the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz. On September 9th, 25th, Israel attacked Hamas in Khazar. So, what changed here?
What changed? As I give you that very sort of truncated timeline. One, Israel dominated its opponents. Israel did not cut peace seals, in which he gave concessions to a bunch of terrorists.
Instead, Israel dominated its opponents. It dominated them in the south of the Gaza Strip. It dominated them in the north with Kizbala. It dominated them in Iran.
It dominated its opponents. Second, President Donald J. Trump happened. So, in 24th, Israel did extraordinarily heavy work.
Again, go back to that timeline. They killed Hania in Iran in 2024, while Joe Biden was president. They killed Kassan Asrallah, while Joe Biden was president. They killed Yax Yassinwar, while Joe Biden was president.
But, the pressure from Joe Biden gave life to Hamas. In the same way that Emmanuel Macron, the moron, president of France, gave life to Hamas, by saying he would give them a mistake. Joe Biden, by slow-walking aid to the Israelis, by telling Israelis, don't go into Rafa. Remember, all eyes on Rafa, and then Israel took Rafa in three weeks, with minimal loss of civilian life.
All that pressure on Israel gave the public relations lift to Hamas that it was looking for in order for them to prolong the war. And public relations matters, and Hamas knew it. There was a great book by Elie Shorabi, who was being held as a hostage by Hamas for almost 600 days. And Elie Shorabi talks about Hamas.
Members would come to him, and show him videos of protesters in Israel against the government, and say, look, your country is collapsing. And show him headlines from abroad, and say, look, we have support from abroad. PR mattered to Hamas, because Hamas couldn't win on the battlefields. They felt that they would win in the court of public opinion, and put so much pressure on Israel that Israel would be forced to concede.
And credit to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and to obviously the IDF, and the people of Israel. That didn't happen. And then Donald Trump was elected, and everything changed. It changed, because Donald Trump made clear that he would not be providing any level of support, either rhetorical or material, to Hamas.
That, in fact, Hamas was on his last legs. He promised there would be hell to pay, and there was, in fact, hell to pay. He said, I will back the stick. If Israel is the stick, I will back the stick.
And suddenly, the support started to evaporate for Hamas from abroad. Because remember, it wasn't just that Hamas had support from Iran. They also had support from Qatar. They had support from Turkey.
They had support from erstwhile American allies. We've been told they're our greatest allies in the region by some. And those greatest allies in the region were supporting Hamas. They were hosting their top people.
They were sending material support to these places. When Hamas members get injured and get shipped out, they go to Turkey. So all of the setup was here. And then something happened in the last few weeks.
And the thing that happened in the last few weeks, there were really two things. One, Israel struck at the Hamas leadership in Qatar. Now, on the one hand, it was a failed strike. It didn't kill the Hamas leadership in Qatar.
But the message of the Qatar strike was very clear. That Israel, if not held back by the United States, would, in fact, strike Hamas anywhere, including in Qatar. And President Trump, being actually truly good at this, like really, really good at this, then came in and offered the carrot. So Israel made clear that there was a stick.
The stick was that it would strike anywhere. That if pressed with Matt, Israel would strike Hamas anywhere. It would strike terrorists anywhere. That was the stick.
President Trump then came in and he offered security assurances to Qatar and F-35s to Turkey. And that was the carrot. But the carrot came along with a string. And the string was, if you want those security assurances, you need to force Hamas to go up to hostages.
Now, I should point out at this point that if that's true, then the single biggest blunder of this entire war was Joe Biden not saying to Qatar on October 8th, you guys, your support structure from the United States goes away unless you force the release. If in fact, Qatar and Turkey have the power to make Hamas give up the ghost, the fact that they have not done so for two years tells you something. Okay, so that is one big thing that happened. That strike against Hamas in Qatar, that acted as a stick toward Qatar and toward Turkey.
And then the President of the United States coming in the back door and saying, no more stressing Qatar. Security assurances to Qatar. Maybe F-35s to Turkey. That's the carrot.
But only if we all get on the same page that Hamas cannot rule the Gaza Strip. And finally, the idea of doing, again, just unbelievable, extraordinary work. Truly sweeping through Gaza City. So again, there's this talk that Israel would never be able to take Gaza City.
It was impossible. It would be impossible for them to take Gaza City. What prompted the end of the war was that every single layer of support that Hamas had evaporated went away. Their PR support went away the minute that President Trump swiveled on Hamas and forced Qatar and Turkey to do the same.
Their support from Qatar and Turkey went away because President Trump forced Qatar and Turkey to the mass. Their military support had already gone away because Israel had destroyed it. Their support from Iran went away because Iran can't even get watered to its own citizens in Tehran. And its nuclear program is in ruins.
Their support from Iran is gone. The only ones left standing at this point are the Houthis. And the Houthis basically have some long-range missiles that mostly get shot down by Israel's air system. And then finally, Israel made clear that they were probably two weeks away from complete military dominance over Gaza City, which was the only area of the Gaza Strip that was not under full Israeli military control.
And it became clear and clear that the Cordon was closing. And then Hamas gave up the ghost. That's what changed here. That's what changed here.
And so, obviously, President Trump deserves all the credit in the world for holding line for understanding the incentive structures in the Middle East. Well, in terms of PR, President Trump understood that. Huge credit to the Prime Minister of Israel, who stood up to Joe Biden as Joe Biden pressed him and pressed him and pressed him to lose the war in order to gain some sort of kind words from a feeble old man incapable of actually making the strong moves necessary to end the war. And full credit, most of all, to the IAF and the IAF and everybody in Israel who has done unbelievable work for two years, sacrificing sons and brothers and daughters and mothers, sacrificing not only lives but livelihoods for two long years in order to defeat their opposition.
Huge credit to them. And, of course, credit to the United States Air Force for the bombing of Natanz. So, good things only happen when strong men do the right thing. President Donald J.
Trump is a strong man who did the right thing. He's a peacemaker because, again, he said this during the campaign to me. He said it over and over. Peace through strength.
Not peace through weakness. Not peace through concession. Not peace through resolutions at the UN. Peace through strength.
Peace through strength works. And, again, we're not at the end of this thing. It's unclear what happens next. But if those principles are held to, if everybody holds the line, then maybe Gaza becomes a better place.
Maybe Gaza actually becomes a place where people want to live. Where funding can go safely. Where people can build things and have good lives. Where people who don't want to have those good lives are swept away.
Maybe that's what Gaza becomes. If not, then essentially Gaza will become like Janine or Nablus. Those are areas of the so-called West Bank in Judea and Samaria, which Israel has military overwatch in order to prevent terrorist attacks against itself. But one thing is absolutely clear.
In the face of genocidal terror, the answer is not concession. The answer is not legitimization. The answer is not rationalization. The answer is destruction and removal of the support bases that these evil people rely upon to continue a war that not only killed 1,200 Israelis on October 7th and the 250 hostage and resulted in the death of another 1,000 Israelis and the wounding of thousands more Israelis over the course of this war, but subjected the people of Gaza to ruin.
That was all on Kamas. All of it. Kamas could have done what it did today. Kamas could have done all of it by never starting this war in the first place.
And they could have done it the day after starting the war. But instead, they decided they would put the entire world, and Palestinians, and Israelis, through misery and through hell. And the result is precisely the opposite of what they sought to achieve. A stronger Israel.
A militarily powerful Israel. A far more united Israel. An Israel that looks like it's about to make peace with the bunch of its neighbors. A more powerful United States of Kamas states in the United States as well.
A United States with Donald J. Trump in charge. Make no mistake. The Hamas assault on Israel played a major, not a minor, a major role in the last election cycle.
Because it was all of the radicals on campus deciding that they were going to go make asses of themselves. That drove many. Americans to say any left that is okay with this cannot be given power so again historic own goal by the people of Hamas and again congratulations to Israel and the United States congratulations to the people of Gaza who wish for peace congratulations to Prime Minister Netanyahu congratulations and credit again to the great peacemaker Donald J Trump congratulations to the Prime Minister of Israel it is a very very good day as the President said a very historic day I know everybody in Israel is eager to welcome the President of the United States to Israel they're very excited about seeing the President of the United States as well as other members of the cabinet and everyone prays for a speedy and healthy conclusion to what has been a horrifying period of violence that ends in triumph for the right side meanwhile what does all this say about the state of the West it means in the West there's a huge block of people who are luxury belief terrorists who've been supporting terrorism for two years and more out of a luxurious belief that it will never affect them and that they somehow gain the moral high ground by supporting terrorism on the anniversary of October 7th which was a grave day in Israel and again for many people all around the world actually there are bunch of protests that took place all over the world in favor of Hamas as the President was trying to negotiate a ceasefire now by the way you've seen no Palestinians or advocates for the Palestinians abroad celebrating President Trump's ceasefire none zero they don't exist they all disappeared now I'm not sure if I've ever heard of a genocide in world history in which the supposed victims of the genocide don't celebrate when it ends right that's kind of telling is it not shouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of these people in the streets celebrating Donald Trump for ending the war for getting to a ceasefire for stopping the carnage shouldn't they be celebrating but they're not where are they why they disappeared because they didn't give a the entire time about Palestinians they didn't care about them at all it was all just a weapon against Israel because if they were truly concerned about the cost of war they would be happy when it ends instead they were protesting for the war to effectively continue on October 7th here was ABC news admitting that there was violence at pro-Palestinian protests on the second anniversary of October 7th this is ABC's Good Morning America demonstrators marked two years of war since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and in Boston there were clashes with police Boston police said 13 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested several officers were injured a march from Boston Common called Students for Justice in Palestine spilled into the street they're blocking traffic the crowd waving Palestinian flags throwing red colored powder into the air police said protesters turned on them kicking a marked cruiser setting off smoke flares and assaulting officers two of them taken to the hospital with broken bones police used bikes to block the crowd and were seen arresting demonstrators on the ground here in New York two protesters were arrested outside the Israeli consulate elsewhere in the city dueling protests one accusing Israel of loving war another calling to release the hostages chanted back and forth okay so again notice those two contrasting messages at the very end one says Israel loved war and one is release our hostages the moral imbalance there is pretty amazing and all who are these people they're a bunch of left-wing scavengers college students with sociology degrees who have decided they're going to stand with terrorism and stand with evil because their civilization is to blame for all the problems on earth this is why you had protesters on October 7th shouting globalize the Antifada and let's not make a mistake Zoran Mandani the mayoral candidate in New York put out his statement on October 7th and it is perfect it's letter perfect for what he is which is a pro-terror radical quote two years ago today Hamas carried out a horrific war crime killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more I mourn these lives and pray for the safer turn of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities lending you'll notice in the middle of the statement there's not a word about you ever in the aftermath of that day Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war a death toll that now far exceeds 67,000 with the Israeli military bombing homes hospitals and schools in rubble every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered our government has been complicit through it all this must end the occupation and apartheid must end peace must be pursued through diplomacy not war crimes and our government must act to end those atrocities and hold those responsible to account notice the full moral equivalence between Hamas and the IDF trying to avoid civilian casualties and his call is for what the destruction of the state of Israel because negotiations may have before they haven't ended particularly well these last few years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity must answer by modeling the very best relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and unwavering commitment to universal human rights he doesn't give a damn about universal human rights all the areas that he's standing for are filled with some of the worst violations of human rights on planet earth but that's what Zoran Mandani is he's the result of a luxury belief America a luxury belief west that celebrates morons like Greg Thunberg who put up a protest picture on October 7th a protest picture and it said quote the suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion it is a fact of systematic cruelty and dehumanization humanity cannot be selected justice cannot have borders she is an idiot so she included in this graphic a picture of Evi Atar David who is an Israeli held by Hamas looking like a holocaust skeleton but she couldn't get that right because the truth doesn't matter all that matters is the signaling all that matters is the signaling and you know what the reality is the reality is the same people who murdered 1200 Israelis on October 7th would be happy to enter western civilization and murder people in the west as well which is why we are now finding out that the knife wielding Islamist terrorist who attacked the UK synagogue on Yom Kippur according to the New York Post calls the cops mid-carnage to brag quote I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State notice language not I've killed two Israelis not I've killed two Zionists I've killed two Jews so and civilizations that welcome this crap in you can't say that they are not reaping what they sow meanwhile President Trump for his part he's he's just the best he's the best here he was ripping into Greg Thunberg when asked about it I love this it's like insult comedy Trump when properly directed is like the best Trump well she's just a troublemaker you know I mean she's you mean she's no longer into the environment now she's a she's a troublemaker she has an anger management problem I think she should see a doctor she needs anger to be able to watch her she's a young person she's so angry she's so crazy now you can have her you can have she's just a troublemaker no he's right that is correct speaking of luxury beliefs there are certain people on the left who are just like the apex predators of luxury beliefs one of these people is Hassan Piker Hassan Piker we've commented on him before because the New York Times has tried to make him fetch they keep putting him in their newspapers on their on their podcast pretending that he is apparently some sort of deep thinker you know the kind of deep thinker who has to write obituaries about Charlie Kirk from a man who's openly called for violence and supported pretty much every terror group on the planet so long as he's oriented against the West well it turns out that he apparently is not super nice to his dog so this was a big controversy over the Jewish holiday apparently he has a dog named Kaio and during a recent stream he was complaining about his internet connection he equated this with violence because everything is violence violence is violence but so is a bad internet connection according to fabled genius Hassan Piker and then he yelled that he hates the country he hates america because his wi-fi connection was not good enough in a studio that he pays for and by the way this socialist has a three million dollar mansion and then his dog stands up and then he yells at the dog and then he appears to be reaching for something and the dog yelps and then he yells at the dog again and then blames his mom for spoiling her so this led to the um this led to the supposition that he remote shocked his dog to get the dog to go back in place if you can't see this the dog is doing nothing now listen i have a dog our dog's name is happy he's a very cute dog my kids love the dog more than i do my wife loves the dog more than i do i'm not a huge dog person you cannot treat an animal this way that's ridiculous that's just ridiculous like i'm not a warm and fuzzy guy with the dog i would never treat our dog this way not in a million years would i treat our dog this way like the dog isn't peeing on him the dog isn't crapping on the carpet the dog the dog literally gets up and moves a foot and he starts yelling at the dog and then reaches for something and the dog yells now i know my dog my dog does not yelp for no reason dogs don't just generally like yelp especially a calm dog like this dog appears to be generally a pretty calm dog apparently he's on the stream a lot so it's not like he's getting up and yelping all the time he's not like a yappy dog now as i say i have a dog i'm not an expert on dogs and thus i've asked an actual expert our sponsors over at Comet which is a project of complexity do house dogs normally yelp if they are yelled at but not zapped with an electronic collar or do they generally yell but not hit with a jolt and here is what Comet tells me quote house dogs do not usually yell simply from being yelled at their yelping response primarily occurs in situations where they experience sudden pain significant surprise or intense fear most dogs yelp when they are hit with a jolt from an electronic shot collar as shocks can be painful or highly startling especially if the collar intensity is high or the dog is sensitive dogs make collar shows in this body language are frightening when yelled at but that way yelping is uncommon and typically only occurs if you yell deeply starrows or scares them electronic collars often cause dogs to yell due to the physical discomfort or pain of the electrical stimulus so i'm not kind of believing Hassan's defense here so here's the footage okay it's the same reason as to why america kaya please just go back just stop get the dog yelps and like jumps jesus christ what are you doing you're being such a baby i mean i'm sorry this is like you're making her stress i i she just literally is is so incredibly spoiled from my mom no she doesn't want to come over here to see what's up she just wants to roam the house because she got to roam the house when i was gone and she needs to literally have the same structured regimented what a bad person truly a bad person speaking of whiners spoiled brats Hassan Piker like number one on the list my goodness by the way i mean it's not the first time he's had some problems with the dog collar apparently and not all that long ago he had to be chided by uh by somebody on his own show because he kept the collar too tight on his dog and now it's mainstream i love her i think her collar's too tight well it's uh you have to be able to get two fingers and i can't even get one i think you're choking her she's like it's a lot of neck meat oh yeah oh yeah so Piker has responded and he says no no no it's just a buzz collar it's not a shot collar it wasn't set too high so the dog apparently yelled for no reason can i just point out that even if he didn't zap the dog him yelling at the dog for the great sin of moving while shouting about the violence of the internet makes one of the most spoiled people in the history of all of humanity and what first of all why is the dog even in the room seriously seriously i've never done a show with an animal in the room because i'm doing a show and it's not the dog's responsibility not to disturb my show it's the dog it's my responsibility to put the dog in a position where the dog can live a normal life why is the dog supposed to like perch itself on this one foot swear desk near Hassan Piker and just sit there for hours while the schmuck utters garbage into a microphone while playing video games and here he was explaining he's the victim here of course this is the one that people are talking about okay this is the one this is the this is the one that they saw it has the capacity to vibrate and that's it are you happy that's it good there's the air tag there's a vibrator it also uses it also has a flashlight component to it at night time and it also has a tracker on it when she gets lost if she were to actually get lost you are able to it emits a sound okay what a victim he is he's nice to walk away out of outrage that somebody's pointed out that he's not nice to his dog I'm sorry it's your fault you're a schmuck to your dog dude not my fault not anybody else's fault that's your fault and these luxury these luxury communists luxury communism from these people just unbelievable stuff and again they'll just continue to hear the worst among them Tim Cain the senator who was almost vice president remember that time that he ran for vice president you didn't did you he was the guy who was on Hillary Clinton's ticket I know you forgot about him already well he's out there defending the Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones you know the one who said that he wanted to shoot his political opponents and called his opponents kids little fascists and here's Tim Cain defending him you think Jay Jones should drop out of the race in Virginia um you know Jay has apologized the statements that he made were indefensible but I've known Jay Jones for 25 years I think those statements were not in character and he has apologized I wish other people in public life would sincerely apologize for stuff so no I still want to support her unreal well done well done huh you know it's easy to be a democrat these days it truly is because there are really no moral barriers you're not willing to cross on behalf of your ideology and what that does lead to at a certain point is just being spoiled Katie Porter speaking of spoiled people now listen I walked out of interviews it was a bad idea I famously walked out of an interview on BBC where I'd been basically harang by what do you say to the 40% of California voters who you'll need in order to win um who voted for Trump how would I need them in order to win man well unless you think you're going to get 60% of the vote you think you'll get 60% everybody who didn't vote for Trump will vote for you that's what you're doing in a general election yes if it's me versus a Republican I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump what is it to you versus not a Democrat I don't intend that to be the case well to those voters okay so you I don't want to keep doing this I'm going to call it thank you you're not going to do the interview with us no not like this I'm not not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask every other candidate has I don't care I don't care I want to have a pleasant positive conversation which you ask me about every issue on this list and if every question you're going to make up a follow-up question then we're never going to get there and we're just going to circle around I've never had to do this before ever okay why don't we go through I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that's my job as a journalist but I will go through and ask the answer and if you don't want to answer you don't want to answer so nearly every legislative I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you and I don't want this all on camera I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about wow wow wow and then she has to happen and she leaves and then it turns into a fist fight Katie Porter this is what happens when you're not used to being asked difficult questions ever well done speaking of spoiled brass spoiled brass with luxury beliefs the slogan of the democratic party at this point alright 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