October 18, 2025 • 34 mins
Israel and Hamas ending a war that began in October 2023. We celebrate Trump’s role in brokering the deal, presenting it as a moment of global significance—“the end of the age of terror and death” and “a new dawn for the Middle East.”
2. Key Events Described
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Hostage exchange: Hamas releases the final 20 living Israeli hostages; Israel releases 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.
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Return of remains: The bodies of several deceased hostages are repatriated.
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Ceasefire and framework: The plan involves partial Israeli troop withdrawal, establishment of a technocratic Gaza administration (not Hamas-controlled), and disarmament conditions.
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Humanitarian aid: Large-scale relief efforts in Gaza are emphasized.
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International involvement: Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and others serve as guarantors; a reconstruction and aid summit is held in Egypt.
3. Trump’s Role and Statements
Trump was the chief architect and hero of the peace accord.
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He calls it “the greatest assemblage of countries in terms of wealth and power.”
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He refers to it as the “granddaddy of them all” among peace efforts.
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The text includes his speech excerpts on Air Force One and before the Israeli parliament (Knesset).
4. Reactions and Praise
The piece highlights unusually bipartisan and international praise:
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Hillary Clinton commends Trump’s efforts, calling the deal “a really significant first step.”
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Major news outlets—CBS and NBC—report on it with positive framing, using phrases like “historic peace deal” and “landmark diplomatic success.”
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Netanyahu is quoted calling Trump “the greatest friend the State of Israel has ever had.”
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Political and Diplomatic Acknowledgments
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Benjamin Netanyahu is quoted praising President Trump, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff for their diplomatic efforts.
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Trump’s involvement is portrayed as crucial to achieving the deal, with comparisons i
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There is no other way to describe it but historic,
a Middle East piece deal. President Donald Trump describing as
prayers of millions have finally been answered with the signing
of the peace agreement. Now, there is a lot that
has happened in the last twenty four hours, and this
is the part that most are celebrating. Hamas released the
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final twenty living Israeli hostages that have been held since
October seventh of twenty twenty three, many of them underground
the entire time. What we also know is we have
witnessed and seen the homecoming play out on TV and
social media. Families prayer fully, crying, celebrating in tears without
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words describe what it's like to see a loved one
they thought they may never see again. What happened in
exchanged is also important. Israel released one thousand, nine hundred
palace and entertainees and prisoners, including many who had life
sentences for their atrocees against the Jewish people. We also
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know that the bodies of some of the deceased hostages
are also being returned. At least fore caskets have made
it back to Israel. The exchange is part of a
broader ceasefire a peace steel framework, often referred to as
Trump's twenty point Plan, that was agreed earlier this month,
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and under the deal, Israel is to partially withdraw troops
from Gaza to his designated line, while retaining control over
certain security zones, at least initially now. The plan envisions
handing over administration of Gaza to a body of technocrats
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rather than Hamas directly, with oversight by international guaranteers. The
deal also calls for a disarmament of Hamas, or at
least their relinquishment of overt military control, as a condition
of long term peace. A humanitarian aid push in a
Gaza is also part of the agreement, with large scale
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deliveries planned during the ceasefire period. Now a board Air
Force one en route to Israel, Trump declared the war
is over, and in his address to Israel's parliament, Trump
framed the release of the hostages as a quote new
beginning for the Middle East and stress that the deal
is historic. He also reaffirms US commitment to prevent renewed war,
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saying he would uphold the cease fire and not allow
hostilities to resume. Trump also joked about pardoning the Israeli
Prime minister in yet Yahoo and said he would fight
for whoever it may be to presus peace. He thinked
those involved, including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty
(03:07):
point piece plan as the path forward the present. In
his own words, had this to say at the signing,
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's a tremendous day for the Middle East. And you
can see that this is probably the greatest assemblage of
countries in terms of wealth and power, maybe ever assembled.
And it's just an honored part of it. We're going
to be signing a document that's going to spell out
of lot of rules and regulations and lots of other things,
(03:39):
and it's very comprehensive. But we've already signed documents in
the Middle East and having to do with Israel and
Hamas and just about everything else. And it's really working
out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know, were let
go on time, on schedule. The very sad situation of bodies,
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which was always a sad situation, and they're being sought
out and they're working with many different people finding some
were brought in and some were not, and they're working
out to find out where those bodies are. It's hard
to believe that you even have to say something like that.
It's so sad. It's so sad. But what's not said
(04:22):
is that we have finally after I guess they say
three thousand years. I've heard from three thousand years to
five hundred years. But whatever it is, it's a lot.
But this was the one. This was the granddaddy of
them all, and frankly, I thought this was probably going
to be the toughest, and maybe in many ways it was.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But we had a lot of good talent.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and General Caine
was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We had an
amazing array.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of talent, an amazing array of talent. It was able
to bring all of this to reality. There was even
a shocking moment that happened in this country as the media, yes,
even some Democrats surprisingly giving Donald Trump credit for the
Gaza deal. One of those was Hillary Clinton, and here
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is what she said.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
point Plan and seeing a path forward for what's often
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called the day after. Most importantly, the conflict hopefully will
end with the ceasefire, the hostages will be returned, and
then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of finding
the kind of secure maturity that Israel and the Palestinians
(06:03):
after Hamas deserved to have. Moving forward with the other
points in the plan to try to create an opportunity
for Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel
to have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful
that we'll be able to see progress. Today's a good start,
(06:25):
but we have to keep going from here.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You can hear Hillary Clinton giving this type of gratitude
for the leadership of President Donald Trump doing something that
Joe Biden's team never got close to doing. And that's
not all the CBS Evening News opening their newscasts saying
this about President Trump.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
There is more hope for peace in the Middle East
tonight than there has been in a very long time.
Hamas today released the last of the surviving Israeli has
held hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel
in turn freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
This is the first phase of the Trump Peace Plan.
But remember it is a twenty point plan and there's
still a long way to go. The President was in
Israel today meeting with families of the now free hostages
and addressing the Kanesset.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
The President said, the long nightmare for Israelis and Palestinians
is over now. He said, it is time to turn
the battlefield victories against terrorists into the ultimate prize, peace
and prosperity for the entire Middle East.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Mister Trump then traveled to Egypt to sign the peace
deal and hold a summit on the future of Gaza
and the region.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
It's been a day of dramatic split screen moments, and
none more so than the sight of President Trump addressing
the Israeli Parliament at the final moment as the final
hostages crossed out of Gaza and AID trucks rolled freely
into Gaza. The result was after two years now a
brutal war, the unmistakable hope, the feeling in the air
that something big had finally changed.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You listened to that news report, that is honest reporting,
And that wasn't the only praise the President received, as
even those in the media that can't stand him could
not overlook the significance of his leadership bringing peace to
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
This was very much a peacemaker's speech.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Do you give him credit for this?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's certainly, I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an
incredible moment. It's a terrific day for the hostage families,
It's a terrific day for President Trump, for our national interests.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
was his deal.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He worked this out.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
There's no question things seem.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
necessarily before.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
A better future ahead. That's what today represented. It was
so so powerful and unbelievably emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
giving credit on networks that never give Donald credit, and
it puts into perspective just how significant this moment actually is.
Donald Trump's historic peace deal. On NBC, they covered it
this way.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
From the moment he landed in Israel, the words thank
you visible from Air Force one and billboard to your
expressing gratitude, President Trump basted in the praise of a
country that credits him more than its own prime minister
for today's long awaited reunions, the President's name echoing through
Israel's parliament as he touted his landmark diplomatic success.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
This is the end of the age of terror and death.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Net Yahoo praising his American ally, Donald.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Trump is the greatest friend that the State of Visuel
has ever had.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
In the White House, going off script, the President called
on his Israeli counterpart to pardon Netan Yahoo, who was
indicted for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
The Guardsan Champagne, who the hell cares about it.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
The President then heading to Egypt for a peace signing
ceremony with Arab nations and other world leaders who backed
the deal.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Peace has been achieved after undouarding efforts, efforts led by
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
His landmark diplomatic success. How NBC News described it as
for what the rest of the world is thinking. Net
and Yahoo praising the deal, defending Israel's conduct over the war,
and express relief and joy over the hostages return. At
the summit held in Egypt, over twenty world leaders, including
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the Egyptian present, joined with Trump to endorse the ceasefire
as well as the postwar plan, and as part of that,
several countries committed to being guaranteurs of the agreement, the US, Egypt, Qatar,
and Turk overseeing security and reconstruction in Gaza. The French
president called for progress towards a two state solution and
(11:08):
announced plans for a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza. Overall,
many nations welcomed the deal they thought was impossible as
a vital step towards peace, and many of them said
it's time now to get the real work done for
Gaza disarmament, security and reconstruction. If you just step back
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dozen world leaders displayed a robust unity at the Middle
East peace signing ceremony regarding the first phase of the
historic peace agreement between Israel and Hamas Trump, along with
the Egyptian president, the Qatar leadership, Turkish president all there
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signed the documents hours after Trump gave a powerful speech
in Tel Aviv. The President of the United States of
America joining the leaders of Katar, Egypt, and Turkey in
that official signing, and I want you to hear what
the President had to say in his own words, thank you.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
It's really working incredibly well.
Speaker 10 (14:41):
The hostages, as you know, let go on time, on schedule.
The first said situation of bodies, which was always a
sad situation, and they're being sought out and they're working
of many different people finding somewhere brought in and some
we're not and working out to find out where those
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bodies are. It's hard to believe they'd even have to
say something like that. It's so said, it's so said,
but what's not said is that we finally after I
guess they say three thousand years. I heard from three
thousand years to five hundred years. But whatever it is,
it's about. But this was the one.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
This was the granddaddy of them all, and frankly I thought.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
This was probably going to be the toughest, and maybe
in many ways it was.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
But we had a lot of big talent. Steve Wood, Gov.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Jared Marco Pete and General Kane's so good. John Ratcliffe
was incredible. We had an amazing array of talent, and
we were helped by, in particular the countries represented at
this table. I will say to maybe you were fantastic
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in your countries, unbelievable.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
And I don't believe they give you a fair shape.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
They talk about you as as though you're not a
nice person, and you happen to be a nice person.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
You haven't to live a little enough friend with it.
You're surrounded by everybody.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
And without view, this wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
And I just want to thank you very much. Ju's guitar.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
He's an amazing leader and another man who's been a
friend of mine for a long time.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
I like the tough people better than I like the soft,
easy ones.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I don't know what the hell it is. It's a
personality problem, I suspect.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one
of the most powerful armies actually in the world. It's
much more powerful than he even let's know, if you
look at some of the recent conflicts, he was at
the top of him and he was winning him and
he did win him. And he doesn't want any credits.
He doesn't want anything. He just wants to be left alone.
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He's a tough cookie, but he's bring my friend and
every time I've ever needed and he's been there for me.
So I just one to thank president to one because.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
He is difficult. They called me, they said, would you
do me a favorite?
Speaker 10 (17:12):
You speak to her to one and I do, and
he never fails us, right general, he never fails.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
He's amazing. So I just want to thank you for
the friendship. It's good.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Thank you very much, and then of course we have
the host tonight, and I just wanted to thank you
very much.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
It was a reason when chose Egypt because you were very.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Helpful and very very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this,
but we really thought it was appropriate.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
And you are a great leader. You have learned of
the crime.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
We have problems that other countries don't happen. Of course,
nothing's perfect, but the job you do is amazing, and
I want to thank you another one. We've been my
friend Fred from the beginning during the campaign against.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Crooked Hillary Plant and have you heard of her?
Speaker 10 (17:57):
And we were both downstairs waiting to go up to
meet this gentleman who has a place called Egypt. The
oldest civilization they say six thousand years, China's five thousand years,
but you're at You're actually number.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
One, six thousand years. Can you believe it?
Speaker 10 (18:14):
But the oldest they say civilization, But so I went
up to meet them first, and we liked each other
so much that she waited for about an hour and
a half and I think your meeting lasted about two
minutes with him, so I always remembered that, but that
was on person media.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
We had great chemistry together, and he's a fantastic man
and a.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Fantastic general by the way, but he's a great president.
And I want to thank Egypt than all of your
representatives are treating us all so well. So we're really
representative of a whole group of visions. And they're sitting
behind us, and you know.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
Most of them. I can tell you this guy had
so much money.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
They all have money.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
There's more money in power sitting behind us. I love
that they're behind us. We've never been sitting behind anybody before.
This is a very unique position for them, but they are, Seriously,
they're among the most powerful countries in the world, of
the richest countries in the world, and there's never been
really an assemblance like what we have today. I don't
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think to you, I don't I've never seen it anyway,
And I want to thank everybody for being where they have.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
To just solve the war for him, as everybody, John,
Oh that do that?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Where did you go?
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Bast you guys? You're still getting along right for for
thirty two years and about one hour we settled, right.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
They like each other and do it's good as right. Well,
I want to thank everybody for being here. He believes
he's a very instul um. He's gonna put a rigged
up to lit.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
A big thank for me formally, but we're actually going
to be making a speech after this, So this is
just a very important signing. But we're doing the signing
that we're doing this leading and then I may stay
behind with the leaders just to talk about that some
things without the press. I want to thank the media
for very You've been so respectful on this year.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know the deal, and I really it was so
pleasant to watch. I was on the plane for quite
a while listening to the various newscasts and they were
all fair. They were talking about how incredible this is.
This is an incredible day for the world, let alone
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
So I just wanted to thank the media. They really
treated it with respect.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I wish you could be like that on other things,
but that's perhaps too much to ask for.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But on this tremendous.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Everybody feels the same, just tremendous respect and.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
We appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Can we get the documents? Plezz.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
You are watching a historic moment here in Egypt at
Charmel Shaikh, Egyptian city, as President Trump, surrounded by other
world leaders, signs a ceremonial document behind a banner that
says peace in the Middle East. This is to commemorate
today's milestone moment, the release of the hostages AID into
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Gaza and the first step toward this broader peace plan
that could lead in a very good direction. The President
calls it a new day in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
World leaders sitting there, including the Italian Prime Minister, the
French President, the Canadian Prime Minister, and many more, looked
on as these four leaders signed the documents that you
heard the President talking to saying, the people behind me
are the greatest leaders, most powerful leaders, the richest leaders. Frankly,
sometimes it's not politically correct to say that, but I'll
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say it. Trump's saying that they are people that really
care for their countries. And why this happened is they
all came together and they wanted to get Gaza straightened out.
Everybody's happy about it like I've never seen before. Actually,
I've done other deals and people don't care as much.
President Trump went on to ad saying big deals. I
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think they're big deals. But this is something that's taken
off like a rocket ship, and it did from the beginning.
The President emphasizing the prospect of peace deal in the
Middle East has long looked daunting, with many saying it
could not be materialized. It's the biggest, most complicated deal.
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Trump then posed for photos with a lot of the
world leaders ahead of the signing ceremony and took the
stage to give the speech that you just heard. Trump
noted before the signing that the document that he'd already
been signed regarding the beginning of the agreement between Israel
and hamas part of this getting done, turning what was
a hope and a dream into a reality. The President
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of the United States of America landed in Israel and
then went to address Israeli parliament. This is not something
that happens very often. There have been I think just
four US presidents that have ever been given the honor
of doing this, the President now being one of those.
I want you to hear what he had to say
in a very important moment when the President decided to
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explain exactly what is happening, why we're here, and how
important Israel is to the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor nice place,
very nice place. Mister President, mister Prime Minister, mister speakers, see,
members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. We
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gather in a day of profound joy, of soaring hope,
of renewed faith, and above all, a day to give
our deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
After two harrowing years.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And darkness and captivity, twenty courageous hostages are returning to
the glorious embrace of their families.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Twenty eight more precious loved ones are coming home at
last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time,
and after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger.
Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
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land that is finally at peace, a land and a
region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This is not only the end of a war.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
This is the end of a age of terror and
death and the beginning of the age of faith and
hope and of God. It's the start of a grand
concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations
of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I
believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of
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a new Middle East. I want to express my gratitude
to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership
did so much to make this momentous day possible. You
know who I'm talking about. There's only one Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Please stand up. And he's not easy. I want to
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tell you he's not the easiest guy to deal with.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
But that's what makes him great. That's what makes them great.
Thank you very much, baby, great job.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And that he also convey my tremendous appreciation for all
of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that
came together to press some as to set the hostages
free and to send them home.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
We had a lot of help.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
We had a lot of help from a lot of
people that you wouldn't suspect, and I want to thank
them very much for that. It's an incredible triumph for
Israel in the world to have all of these nations
working together as partners in peace, and it's pretty unusual
for you to see that, but it happened in this case.
This was a very unusual point in time, a brilliant
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point in time. Generations from now, this will be remembered
as the moment that everything began to change, and change
very much for the better.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Like the USA right now, it will.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Be the golden age of Israel and the golden age
of the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's going to work together.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I'd like to thank several great American patriots for their
invaluable help in getting something done that almost everyone thought
was absolutely impossible.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We were wasting our time.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So many people said, you're just wasting your time, but
we weren't because we had talented people working with us,
and we had people that loved your country and frankly,
people that loved the region. They loved the Middle East.
I want to thank my friend Steve Whitcoff. You know,
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Steve was chosen by me. He never did this before,
but I knew him as a few things. He was
a great businessman, but I know a lot of great businessmen.
To be honest with you, he had tremendous negotiating skills,
but I know a lot of people that negotiate pretty well.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Although it is an art, but there are people that
can negotia. She ate pretty well.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But most importantly with Steve, he's just a great guy.
Everybody loved him. Everybody. I mean, I know some negotiators
that are so good. But you wouldn't have had peace
in the Middle East. He would be in World War three.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Right now with some of these guys.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Everybody loves Steve and they respect him, and they somehow
can relate to him. I've known him for many years
and I've seen it over over and over again.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Auta, they don't.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Think, come out, we're gonna hear they're a protester, one
of those in parliament apparently protesting.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
In that moment.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Sorry for that, mister President.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That was very efficient. So back to Steve. He's but
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I tell one story because he was so involved. And
then we called and Jared, we called, and we need
that brain on occasion. We got to get Jared in here.
We got to get a certain group of people. But
Steve started this all by himself. I call him Henry Kissinger,
who doesn't leak. Okay, Henry is a big leaker.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
He leaked.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Steve does a leak. Steve just wants to get the
job done. He wants to do what's right. But I'll
give you just a quick story, because as you know,
he's working on the war with Russia and Ukraine, a
war that would have never happened if our work president
A shame. Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being
killed more than that this last week. It's a shame
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that had never happened. But it did happen, and we
won the race, and I took over this horrible war
that's been raging, and I thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Easily settled.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I thought it was a hell of a lot easier
than doing what we just did very successfully with Israel
and a lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But this came first, and we'll get that one.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But I set up a meeting for him to meet
with President Putin, thinking it would be a fifteen or
a twenty minute meeting.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Steve had no idea about Russia.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I had no idea about Putin too much, didn't know
too much about politics.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Wasn't that interested. He was really good at real estate.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
But he had that quality that I was looking for,
and I didn't see it around in too many ways.
And I set up the meeting with Putin and I called.
I said, uh, is Steve finished yet? That was about
half an hour into the meeting.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, sir, he's not.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He's still inside. This is in Moscow. I said, well,
how's he doing. I don't know, sir, he's still inside.
I called up an hour later, let me speak to Steve. Sir,
he's still with Putin. He's with President Putin. I said, wow,
it's a long meeting. One hour.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I called up.
Speaker 14 (32:46):
An hour later, he is still with Putin. Three hours
later he was still with Putin. Four hours later he
started to get the word that he was going to
be coming out soon. And in five hours he came out.
I said, what what the hell were you talking about
for five hours? And he says, just a lot of
interesting things.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
We're talking about a lot of interesting things, including what
he went in there for. But you can't talk about
it for five You can talk about it for a
certain period of time and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
But that's a talent that's a talent where you can
do that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Most people I'd send in number one, they wouldn't be
accepted number two. If they were, the meeting would last
five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody loves him.
They love him on this side, they love him on
the other side, and he really is he's a great
negotiator because he's a great guy.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So thank you very much, Stude, very.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Much, President of the United States of America speaking there,
and this is truly an incredible moment as the President
is just talking about how we got this deal done,
what happened there, and the team that was behind behind it.
It's truly remarkable as we are looking at the real
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reality of peace in the Middle East. It is incredible.
The hostages, those that are alive, have all returned, which
is also amazing, they have all returned back to Israel.
The bodies, as you heard the President mentioned earlier, of
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those that have been killed by the terrorist organization, we
still don't know if we will be able to find
all those bodies. That it's horrific to even say that.
But a convoy carrying four coffins Obnyssease hostages into Israel.
Did happen after the sun had set in Israel?
Speaker 14 (34:45):
We do know that.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Don't forget share this podcast. Please with your family and
your friends wherever they are, and I will see you
back here tomorrow
There is no other way to describe it but historic,
a Middle East piece deal. President Donald Trump describing as
prayers of millions have finally been answered with the signing
of the peace agreement. Now, there is a lot that
has happened in the last twenty four hours, and this
is the part that most are celebrating. Hamas released the
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final twenty living Israeli hostages that have been held since
October seventh of twenty twenty three, many of them underground
the entire time. What we also know is we have
witnessed and seen the homecoming play out on TV and
social media. Families prayer fully, crying, celebrating in tears without
(00:53):
words describe what it's like to see a loved one
they thought they may never see again. What happened in
exchanged is also important. Israel released one thousand, nine hundred
palace and entertainees and prisoners, including many who had life
sentences for their atrocees against the Jewish people. We also
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know that the bodies of some of the deceased hostages
are also being returned. At least fore caskets have made
it back to Israel. The exchange is part of a
broader ceasefire a peace steel framework, often referred to as
Trump's twenty point Plan, that was agreed earlier this month,
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and under the deal, Israel is to partially withdraw troops
from Gaza to his designated line, while retaining control over
certain security zones, at least initially now. The plan envisions
handing over administration of Gaza to a body of technocrats
(01:59):
rather than Hamas directly, with oversight by international guaranteers. The
deal also calls for a disarmament of Hamas, or at
least their relinquishment of overt military control, as a condition
of long term peace. A humanitarian aid push in a
Gaza is also part of the agreement, with large scale
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deliveries planned during the ceasefire period. Now a board Air
Force one en route to Israel, Trump declared the war
is over, and in his address to Israel's parliament, Trump
framed the release of the hostages as a quote new
beginning for the Middle East and stress that the deal
is historic. He also reaffirms US commitment to prevent renewed war,
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saying he would uphold the cease fire and not allow
hostilities to resume. Trump also joked about pardoning the Israeli
Prime minister in yet Yahoo and said he would fight
for whoever it may be to presus peace. He thinked
those involved, including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty
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point piece plan as the path forward the present. In
his own words, had this to say at the signing,
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's a tremendous day for the Middle East. And you
can see that this is probably the greatest assemblage of
countries in terms of wealth and power, maybe ever assembled.
And it's just an honored part of it. We're going
to be signing a document that's going to spell out
of lot of rules and regulations and lots of other things,
(03:39):
and it's very comprehensive. But we've already signed documents in
the Middle East and having to do with Israel and
Hamas and just about everything else. And it's really working
out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know, were let
go on time, on schedule. The very sad situation of bodies,
(04:02):
which was always a sad situation, and they're being sought
out and they're working with many different people finding some
were brought in and some were not, and they're working
out to find out where those bodies are. It's hard
to believe that you even have to say something like that.
It's so sad. It's so sad. But what's not said
(04:22):
is that we have finally after I guess they say
three thousand years. I've heard from three thousand years to
five hundred years. But whatever it is, it's a lot.
But this was the one. This was the granddaddy of
them all, and frankly, I thought this was probably going
to be the toughest, and maybe in many ways it was.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
But we had a lot of good talent.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and General Caine
was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We had an
amazing array.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Of talent, an amazing array of talent. It was able
to bring all of this to reality. There was even
a shocking moment that happened in this country as the media, yes,
even some Democrats surprisingly giving Donald Trump credit for the
Gaza deal. One of those was Hillary Clinton, and here
(05:17):
is what she said.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
President Trump and his administration, as well as Arab leaders
in the region for making the commitment to the twenty
point Plan and seeing a path forward for what's often
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called the day after. Most importantly, the conflict hopefully will
end with the ceasefire, the hostages will be returned, and
then the very hard work of rebuilding Gaza, of finding
the kind of secure maturity that Israel and the Palestinians
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after Hamas deserved to have. Moving forward with the other
points in the plan to try to create an opportunity
for Palestinians to have a better life and for Israel
to have greater peace and security. I am very hopeful
that we'll be able to see progress. Today's a good start,
(06:25):
but we have to keep going from here.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
You can hear Hillary Clinton giving this type of gratitude
for the leadership of President Donald Trump doing something that
Joe Biden's team never got close to doing. And that's
not all the CBS Evening News opening their newscasts saying
this about President Trump.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
There is more hope for peace in the Middle East
tonight than there has been in a very long time.
Hamas today released the last of the surviving Israeli has
held hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel
in turn freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
This is the first phase of the Trump Peace Plan.
But remember it is a twenty point plan and there's
still a long way to go. The President was in
Israel today meeting with families of the now free hostages
and addressing the Kanesset.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
The President said, the long nightmare for Israelis and Palestinians
is over now. He said, it is time to turn
the battlefield victories against terrorists into the ultimate prize, peace
and prosperity for the entire Middle East.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Mister Trump then traveled to Egypt to sign the peace
deal and hold a summit on the future of Gaza
and the region.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
It's been a day of dramatic split screen moments, and
none more so than the sight of President Trump addressing
the Israeli Parliament at the final moment as the final
hostages crossed out of Gaza and AID trucks rolled freely
into Gaza. The result was after two years now a
brutal war, the unmistakable hope, the feeling in the air
that something big had finally changed.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You listened to that news report, that is honest reporting,
And that wasn't the only praise the President received, as
even those in the media that can't stand him could
not overlook the significance of his leadership bringing peace to
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
This was very much a peacemaker's speech.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Do you give him credit for this?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
That's certainly, I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an
incredible moment. It's a terrific day for the hostage families,
It's a terrific day for President Trump, for our national interests.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
was his deal.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
He worked this out.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
There's no question things seem.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
necessarily before.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
A better future ahead. That's what today represented. It was
so so powerful and unbelievably emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
giving credit on networks that never give Donald credit, and
it puts into perspective just how significant this moment actually is.
Donald Trump's historic peace deal. On NBC, they covered it
this way.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
From the moment he landed in Israel, the words thank
you visible from Air Force one and billboard to your
expressing gratitude, President Trump basted in the praise of a
country that credits him more than its own prime minister
for today's long awaited reunions, the President's name echoing through
Israel's parliament as he touted his landmark diplomatic success.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
This is the end of the age of terror and death.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Net Yahoo praising his American ally, Donald.
Speaker 10 (09:44):
Trump is the greatest friend that the State of Visuel
has ever had.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
In the White House, going off script, the President called
on his Israeli counterpart to pardon Netan Yahoo, who was
indicted for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
The Guardsan Champagne, who the hell cares about it.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
The President then heading to Egypt for a peace signing
ceremony with Arab nations and other world leaders who backed
the deal.
Speaker 9 (10:11):
Peace has been achieved after undouarding efforts, efforts led by
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
His landmark diplomatic success. How NBC News described it as
for what the rest of the world is thinking. Net
and Yahoo praising the deal, defending Israel's conduct over the war,
and express relief and joy over the hostages return. At
the summit held in Egypt, over twenty world leaders, including
(10:45):
the Egyptian present, joined with Trump to endorse the ceasefire
as well as the postwar plan, and as part of that,
several countries committed to being guaranteurs of the agreement, the US, Egypt, Qatar,
and Turk overseeing security and reconstruction in Gaza. The French
president called for progress towards a two state solution and
(11:08):
announced plans for a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza. Overall,
many nations welcomed the deal they thought was impossible as
a vital step towards peace, and many of them said
it's time now to get the real work done for
Gaza disarmament, security and reconstruction. If you just step back
(11:29):
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at k PM dot com. President Trump, at about two
dozen world leaders displayed a robust unity at the Middle
East peace signing ceremony regarding the first phase of the
historic peace agreement between Israel and Hamas Trump, along with
the Egyptian president, the Qatar leadership, Turkish president all there
(14:22):
signed the documents hours after Trump gave a powerful speech
in Tel Aviv. The President of the United States of
America joining the leaders of Katar, Egypt, and Turkey in
that official signing, and I want you to hear what
the President had to say in his own words, thank you.
Speaker 11 (14:39):
It's really working incredibly well.
Speaker 10 (14:41):
The hostages, as you know, let go on time, on schedule.
The first said situation of bodies, which was always a
sad situation, and they're being sought out and they're working
of many different people finding somewhere brought in and some
we're not and working out to find out where those
(15:03):
bodies are. It's hard to believe they'd even have to
say something like that. It's so said, it's so said,
but what's not said is that we finally after I
guess they say three thousand years. I heard from three
thousand years to five hundred years. But whatever it is,
it's about. But this was the one.
Speaker 11 (15:20):
This was the granddaddy of them all, and frankly I thought.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
This was probably going to be the toughest, and maybe
in many ways it was.
Speaker 11 (15:28):
But we had a lot of big talent. Steve Wood, Gov.
Speaker 10 (15:31):
Jared Marco Pete and General Kane's so good. John Ratcliffe
was incredible. We had an amazing array of talent, and
we were helped by, in particular the countries represented at
this table. I will say to maybe you were fantastic
(15:52):
in your countries, unbelievable.
Speaker 11 (15:54):
And I don't believe they give you a fair shape.
Speaker 10 (15:57):
They talk about you as as though you're not a
nice person, and you happen to be a nice person.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
You haven't to live a little enough friend with it.
You're surrounded by everybody.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
And without view, this wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 11 (16:09):
And I just want to thank you very much. Ju's guitar.
Speaker 10 (16:17):
He's an amazing leader and another man who's been a
friend of mine for a long time.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
I like the tough people better than I like the soft,
easy ones.
Speaker 11 (16:28):
I don't know what the hell it is. It's a
personality problem, I suspect.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one
of the most powerful armies actually in the world. It's
much more powerful than he even let's know, if you
look at some of the recent conflicts, he was at
the top of him and he was winning him and
he did win him. And he doesn't want any credits.
He doesn't want anything. He just wants to be left alone.
(16:54):
He's a tough cookie, but he's bring my friend and
every time I've ever needed and he's been there for me.
So I just one to thank president to one because.
Speaker 11 (17:09):
He is difficult. They called me, they said, would you
do me a favorite?
Speaker 10 (17:12):
You speak to her to one and I do, and
he never fails us, right general, he never fails.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
He's amazing. So I just want to thank you for
the friendship. It's good.
Speaker 10 (17:21):
Thank you very much, and then of course we have
the host tonight, and I just wanted to thank you
very much.
Speaker 11 (17:28):
It was a reason when chose Egypt because you were very.
Speaker 10 (17:31):
Helpful and very very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this,
but we really thought it was appropriate.
Speaker 11 (17:37):
And you are a great leader. You have learned of
the crime.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
We have problems that other countries don't happen. Of course,
nothing's perfect, but the job you do is amazing, and
I want to thank you another one. We've been my
friend Fred from the beginning during the campaign against.
Speaker 11 (17:54):
Crooked Hillary Plant and have you heard of her?
Speaker 10 (17:57):
And we were both downstairs waiting to go up to
meet this gentleman who has a place called Egypt. The
oldest civilization they say six thousand years, China's five thousand years,
but you're at You're actually number.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
One, six thousand years. Can you believe it?
Speaker 10 (18:14):
But the oldest they say civilization, But so I went
up to meet them first, and we liked each other
so much that she waited for about an hour and
a half and I think your meeting lasted about two
minutes with him, so I always remembered that, but that
was on person media.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
We had great chemistry together, and he's a fantastic man
and a.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Fantastic general by the way, but he's a great president.
And I want to thank Egypt than all of your
representatives are treating us all so well. So we're really
representative of a whole group of visions. And they're sitting
behind us, and you know.
Speaker 11 (18:53):
Most of them. I can tell you this guy had
so much money.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
They all have money.
Speaker 10 (18:59):
There's more money in power sitting behind us. I love
that they're behind us. We've never been sitting behind anybody before.
This is a very unique position for them, but they are, Seriously,
they're among the most powerful countries in the world, of
the richest countries in the world, and there's never been
really an assemblance like what we have today. I don't
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think to you, I don't I've never seen it anyway,
And I want to thank everybody for being where they have.
Speaker 11 (19:28):
To just solve the war for him, as everybody, John,
Oh that do that?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Where did you go?
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Bast you guys? You're still getting along right for for
thirty two years and about one hour we settled, right.
Speaker 11 (19:45):
They like each other and do it's good as right. Well,
I want to thank everybody for being here. He believes
he's a very instul um. He's gonna put a rigged
up to lit.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
A big thank for me formally, but we're actually going
to be making a speech after this, So this is
just a very important signing. But we're doing the signing
that we're doing this leading and then I may stay
behind with the leaders just to talk about that some
things without the press. I want to thank the media
for very You've been so respectful on this year.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You know the deal, and I really it was so
pleasant to watch. I was on the plane for quite
a while listening to the various newscasts and they were
all fair. They were talking about how incredible this is.
This is an incredible day for the world, let alone
the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
So I just wanted to thank the media. They really
treated it with respect.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I wish you could be like that on other things,
but that's perhaps too much to ask for.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
But on this tremendous.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Everybody feels the same, just tremendous respect and.
Speaker 11 (20:47):
We appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Can we get the documents? Plezz.
Speaker 7 (20:52):
You are watching a historic moment here in Egypt at
Charmel Shaikh, Egyptian city, as President Trump, surrounded by other
world leaders, signs a ceremonial document behind a banner that
says peace in the Middle East. This is to commemorate
today's milestone moment, the release of the hostages AID into
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Gaza and the first step toward this broader peace plan
that could lead in a very good direction. The President
calls it a new day in the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
World leaders sitting there, including the Italian Prime Minister, the
French President, the Canadian Prime Minister, and many more, looked
on as these four leaders signed the documents that you
heard the President talking to saying, the people behind me
are the greatest leaders, most powerful leaders, the richest leaders. Frankly,
sometimes it's not politically correct to say that, but I'll
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say it. Trump's saying that they are people that really
care for their countries. And why this happened is they
all came together and they wanted to get Gaza straightened out.
Everybody's happy about it like I've never seen before. Actually,
I've done other deals and people don't care as much.
President Trump went on to ad saying big deals. I
(22:05):
think they're big deals. But this is something that's taken
off like a rocket ship, and it did from the beginning.
The President emphasizing the prospect of peace deal in the
Middle East has long looked daunting, with many saying it
could not be materialized. It's the biggest, most complicated deal.
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Trump then posed for photos with a lot of the
world leaders ahead of the signing ceremony and took the
stage to give the speech that you just heard. Trump
noted before the signing that the document that he'd already
been signed regarding the beginning of the agreement between Israel
and hamas part of this getting done, turning what was
a hope and a dream into a reality. The President
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of the United States of America landed in Israel and
then went to address Israeli parliament. This is not something
that happens very often. There have been I think just
four US presidents that have ever been given the honor
of doing this, the President now being one of those.
I want you to hear what he had to say
in a very important moment when the President decided to
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explain exactly what is happening, why we're here, and how
important Israel is to the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor nice place,
very nice place. Mister President, mister Prime Minister, mister speakers, see,
members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. We
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gather in a day of profound joy, of soaring hope,
of renewed faith, and above all, a day to give
our deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
After two harrowing years.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
And darkness and captivity, twenty courageous hostages are returning to
the glorious embrace of their families.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Twenty eight more precious loved ones are coming home at
last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time,
and after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger.
Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
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land that is finally at peace, a land and a
region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
This is not only the end of a war.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
This is the end of a age of terror and
death and the beginning of the age of faith and
hope and of God. It's the start of a grand
concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations
of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I
believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of
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a new Middle East. I want to express my gratitude
to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership
did so much to make this momentous day possible. You
know who I'm talking about. There's only one Prime Minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Please stand up. And he's not easy. I want to
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tell you he's not the easiest guy to deal with.
Speaker 12 (26:25):
But that's what makes him great. That's what makes them great.
Thank you very much, baby, great job.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And that he also convey my tremendous appreciation for all
of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that
came together to press some as to set the hostages
free and to send them home.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
We had a lot of help.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
We had a lot of help from a lot of
people that you wouldn't suspect, and I want to thank
them very much for that. It's an incredible triumph for
Israel in the world to have all of these nations
working together as partners in peace, and it's pretty unusual
for you to see that, but it happened in this case.
This was a very unusual point in time, a brilliant
(27:22):
point in time. Generations from now, this will be remembered
as the moment that everything began to change, and change
very much for the better.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Like the USA right now, it will.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Be the golden age of Israel and the golden age
of the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
It's going to work together.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
I'd like to thank several great American patriots for their
invaluable help in getting something done that almost everyone thought
was absolutely impossible.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
We were wasting our time.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So many people said, you're just wasting your time, but
we weren't because we had talented people working with us,
and we had people that loved your country and frankly,
people that loved the region. They loved the Middle East.
I want to thank my friend Steve Whitcoff. You know,
(28:38):
Steve was chosen by me. He never did this before,
but I knew him as a few things. He was
a great businessman, but I know a lot of great businessmen.
To be honest with you, he had tremendous negotiating skills,
but I know a lot of people that negotiate pretty well.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Although it is an art, but there are people that
can negotia. She ate pretty well.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
But most importantly with Steve, he's just a great guy.
Everybody loved him. Everybody. I mean, I know some negotiators
that are so good. But you wouldn't have had peace
in the Middle East. He would be in World War three.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Right now with some of these guys.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Everybody loves Steve and they respect him, and they somehow
can relate to him. I've known him for many years
and I've seen it over over and over again.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Auta, they don't.
Speaker 13 (29:46):
Think, come out, we're gonna hear they're a protester, one
of those in parliament apparently protesting.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
In that moment.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Sorry for that, mister President.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
That was very efficient. So back to Steve. He's but
(30:52):
I tell one story because he was so involved. And
then we called and Jared, we called, and we need
that brain on occasion. We got to get Jared in here.
We got to get a certain group of people. But
Steve started this all by himself. I call him Henry Kissinger,
who doesn't leak. Okay, Henry is a big leaker.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
He leaked.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Steve does a leak. Steve just wants to get the
job done. He wants to do what's right. But I'll
give you just a quick story, because as you know,
he's working on the war with Russia and Ukraine, a
war that would have never happened if our work president
A shame. Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being
killed more than that this last week. It's a shame
(31:36):
that had never happened. But it did happen, and we
won the race, and I took over this horrible war
that's been raging, and I thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Easily settled.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I thought it was a hell of a lot easier
than doing what we just did very successfully with Israel
and a lot of other people.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
But this came first, and we'll get that one.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
But I set up a meeting for him to meet
with President Putin, thinking it would be a fifteen or
a twenty minute meeting.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Steve had no idea about Russia.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
I had no idea about Putin too much, didn't know
too much about politics.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Wasn't that interested. He was really good at real estate.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
But he had that quality that I was looking for,
and I didn't see it around in too many ways.
And I set up the meeting with Putin and I called.
I said, uh, is Steve finished yet? That was about
half an hour into the meeting.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
No, sir, he's not.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
He's still inside. This is in Moscow. I said, well,
how's he doing. I don't know, sir, he's still inside.
I called up an hour later, let me speak to Steve. Sir,
he's still with Putin. He's with President Putin. I said, wow,
it's a long meeting. One hour.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
I called up.
Speaker 14 (32:46):
An hour later, he is still with Putin. Three hours
later he was still with Putin. Four hours later he
started to get the word that he was going to
be coming out soon. And in five hours he came out.
I said, what what the hell were you talking about
for five hours? And he says, just a lot of
interesting things.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
We're talking about a lot of interesting things, including what
he went in there for. But you can't talk about
it for five You can talk about it for a
certain period of time and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
But that's a talent that's a talent where you can
do that.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Most people I'd send in number one, they wouldn't be
accepted number two. If they were, the meeting would last
five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody loves him.
They love him on this side, they love him on
the other side, and he really is he's a great
negotiator because he's a great guy.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
So thank you very much, Stude, very.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Much, President of the United States of America speaking there,
and this is truly an incredible moment as the President
is just talking about how we got this deal done,
what happened there, and the team that was behind behind it.
It's truly remarkable as we are looking at the real
(34:05):
reality of peace in the Middle East. It is incredible.
The hostages, those that are alive, have all returned, which
is also amazing, they have all returned back to Israel.
The bodies, as you heard the President mentioned earlier, of
(34:26):
those that have been killed by the terrorist organization, we
still don't know if we will be able to find
all those bodies. That it's horrific to even say that.
But a convoy carrying four coffins Obnyssease hostages into Israel.
Did happen after the sun had set in Israel?
Speaker 14 (34:45):
We do know that.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
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