October 14, 2025 • 32 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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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There is no other way to describe it but a 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
(00:52):
words subscribe 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 in 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 diseased 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 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 deliveries
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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 reaffirmed US commitment to prevent renewed war, saying
(02:46):
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 preserve peace. He think those involved,
including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty point piece
(03:06):
plan as the path forward the present. In his own words,
had this to say at the signing, Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And it's just an honored part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
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, 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,
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were let go on time, on schedule. The very sad
situation of bodies, 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.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Where those bodies are.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's hard to believe that you even have to say
something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's so sad. It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But what's not said 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 (04:38):
But we had a lot of good talent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and General Caine
was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We had an
amazing array.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of talent, an amazing array of talent that 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 (05:17):
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 security that Israel and the Palestinians after
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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,
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but we have to keep going from here.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You can hear Hillary Quinton 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 (06:44):
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's held
hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel in
turn freed to hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And 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 Kanesse.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
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 (07:28):
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 (07:33):
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 (07:55):
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 8 (08:12):
This was very much a peacemaker's speech.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Do you give him credit for this?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an incredible moment.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It's a terrific day for the hostage families. It's a
terrific day for President Trump, for our national interests.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
was his deal.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
He worked this out.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
There's no question things seem.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
necessarily before.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
A better future ahead.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
That's what today represented. It was so so powerful and
unbelievably emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
giving credit on networks that never give Donald Trump credit,
and it puts in a perspective just how significant this
moment actually is Donald Trump historic peace deal. On NBC,
they covered it this way.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
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 (09:25):
This is the end of the age of terror and death.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Net Yahoo praising his American ally Donald Trump is the
greatest friend that the State of Visuel has ever had.
In the White House, going off script, the President called
on his Israeli counterpart to pardon net Yahoo, who was
indicted for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Cigars and Champagne, who the hell cares about it?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
The present then heading the Egypt for a peace signing
ceremony with the Air of Nations and other world leaders
who backed the deal.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Peace has been achieved after untiring efforts, efforts led by
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
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 president, 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 Turkey overseeing security and reconstruction in Gaza. The French
president called for progress towards a two state solution and
(10:55):
announced plans for a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza. Overall, well,
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 and you
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look at what President Trump was able to do, there
is no doubt. As NBC News put it, Trump's historic
peace deal. It is his landmark diplomatic success and it's
no telling how many lives will be saved because of
Donald Trump's leadership. President Donald Trump and Middle Eastern leaders
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sign a peace agreement in a historic Egypt summit flanked
by world leaders. After the twenty live hostages still being
held by Hamas or release back into Israel and reunited
with their families, President Trump and about two dozen world
leaders displayed a robust unity at the Middle East peace
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He's 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 signed
the documents hours after. Trump gave a powerful speech in
Tel Aviv, the President of the United States of America
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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.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
It's really working out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know,
let go on time, on schedule. The very 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 were not. And as
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they're working out to find out where those bodies are.
I try to believe they'd even have to say something
like that, and so said, and so said, for what's
not saying is and we 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
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the wall and frankly, I thought this was probably going
to be the toughest, and maybe in many ways it was.
But we had a lot of good talent. Steve wood Gough,
Jared marco Pe and General Kane's so bad. John Ratcliffe
was incredible. We had an amazing array of talent, and
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we were helped by, in particular the countries represented at
this table. I will say to maybe you were fantastic
in your country is unbelivable and I don't believe they
give you a fair shape. They talk about you as
though you're not a nice person, and you happen to
be a nice person. You haven't a It was enough Dwood.
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You're surrounded by everybody, and without year this wouldn't have happened.
And I just want to thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
That's Katar and.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
He's an amazing leader and another man who's been a
friend of mine for a long time. I don't know
what it is. I like the tough people better than
I like the soft, easy ones. I don't know what
the hell it is. It's a personality problem, I suspect.
But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one
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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.
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.
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So I just want to thank President third one Turkey
because he is it's difficult. They called me, they said,
would you do me a favorite? You speak to earn
a one, and I do. And he never fails us,
right general, he never fails. He's amazing. So I just
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want to thank you for the friendship. It's good. Thank
you very much. And then of course we have the
host tonight and I just wanted to thank you very much.
It was a reason which was Egypt, because you were
very helpful and very very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this,
but we really thought it was appropriate.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And you are a great leader.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
You have learned of the crime. 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.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Another one and.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
My friend Fred from the beginning during the campaign against
Crooked Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Have you heard of her?
Speaker 10 (15:48):
And we were both downstairs waiting to go up to
meet this gentleman who has a place called Egypt. He
all this civilization. They say six thousand years, China's five
thousand years, but you're actually number one. Six thousand years.
Can you believe it? But the oldest, they say civilization.
But so I went up to meet them first, and
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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 her, So I always
remembered that. But that was our person media. We had
great chemistry together. And he's a fantastic man and a
fantastic general by the way, but he's a great president.
And I want to thank eachypt than all of your
representatives and treating us all so well. So we're really
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representative of a whole group of nations, and they're sitting
behind us, and you know, most of them. I can
tell you this guy's had so much money.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
They all have so money.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
There's more money and 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. They are
seriously there among the most powerful countries in the world,
of the richest countries in the world, and there's never
been really an assemblage like what we have today. I
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don't think to him, I don't I've never seen it anyway,
And I want to thank everybody for being just solve
the war for him as a boy, John did that
do that? Where did you don't think what is coming?
You're still getting along right? For for thirty two years
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and about one hour we settled it right and they
like each other, and I feel it's good past right.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, I want to.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Thank everybody for being here. He believes he's a very
strong ruler. He's put a rigged up to God. A
big thank so manyody. We're actually gonna be making a
speech after this, so this is just a very important signing.
But we're doing the signing that, we're doing the speech,
and then I may say behind with the leaders just
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to talk about that some things without the press.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I want to thank the media for you've been so
respectful on this year. 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
news guests, 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. So I
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just wanted to thank the media. They really treated it
with respect. I wish you could be like that on
other things, but that's perhaps too much to ask for.
But on this tremendous everybody feels the same, just tremendous respect,
and we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Can we get the documents? Plezz.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
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 (19:14):
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 ad saying big deals. I think
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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. We'll take
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a quick break, we'll come back, and we'll also let
you hear what he had to say when he landed
in Israel as the President addressed what would be the
in essence, our Congress, Israeli's parliament. The President of the
United States of America landed in Israel and then went
to address Israeli parliament. This is not something that happens
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very often. In fact, 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
explain exactly what is happening, why we're here, and how
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important Israel is to the United States of America.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor, nice place,
very nice place.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Mister President, mister Prime Minister, mister speakers, see members of
the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. We gather in
a day of profound joy, of soaring hope, of renewed faith,
and above all, a day to give our deepest thanks
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to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. After
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two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, twenty courageous hostages
are returning to the glorious embrace of their families.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
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 fine at peace, a land and a
region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
This is not only the end of a war.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
This is the end of a age of.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
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
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of 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 BB, please stand up. And he's not easy.
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I want to tell you he's not the easiest guy
to deal with. But that's what makes him great. That's
what makes them great. Thank you very much, baby, great job,
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and that he also been very My tremendous appreciation for
all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world
that came together to press.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Some as to set the hostages for and to send
them home. We had a lot of help. We had
a lot of help from a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
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,
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a brilliant point in time. Generations from now, this will
be remembered as the moment that everything began to change
and change very.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Much for the better.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Like the USA right now, it will be the golden
age of Israel. And the Golden Age of the Middle East.
It's going to work together. 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 8 (25:57):
We were wasting our time.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
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.
Although it is an art, but there are people that
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can negotiate pretty well. 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
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be in World War three right now.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
With some of these guys.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
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 8 (27:49):
They don't think to come out.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
We're gonna hear they're a protester. One of those in
parliament apparently protested in that moment.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Sorry for that, mister President. That was very efficient. So
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back to Steve. He's but I tell one story because
he was so involved.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
And then we called in.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Joe, we call it 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 8 (29:15):
He leaked.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Steve does it 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 president as shame.
Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being killed, more
than that this last week. It's a shame that had
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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 8 (29:50):
Easily settled.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
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 8 (30:00):
But this came first, and we'll get that one.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
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 8 (30:10):
Steve had no idea about Russia.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I had no idea about Putin too much, didn't know
too much about politics.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Wasn't that interesting.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
He was really good at real estate.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
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
a half an hour into the meeting.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
No, sir, he's not.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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 I called up. An
hour later, he is still with Putin. Three hours later,
he was still with Putin. Four hours later he started
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to get the word that he was going to be
coming out soon. Five hours he came out. I said,
what the hell were you talking about for five hours?
And he says, just a lot of interesting things. We're
talking about a lot of interesting things, including what he
went in there for. But you can't talk about it
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for five You can talk about it for a certain
period of time and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
But that's a talent. That's a talent where you can
do that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Most people I'd send in number one, they wouldn't be
accepted number two. If they were the meet he would
last five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody
loves him.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
They love him on this side, they love him on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
And he really is he's a great negotiator because he's
a great guy.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
So thank you very much, Sue very.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
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,
on what happened there and the team that was 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 obnysseys hostages into Israel
did happen after the sun had set in Israel.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We do know that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Don't forget share this podcast please with your family and
your friends where whoever they are, and I will see
you back here tomorrow.
There is no other way to describe it but a 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 subscribe 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 in 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 diseased 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 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 deliveries
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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 reaffirmed US commitment to prevent renewed war, saying
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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 preserve peace. He think those involved,
including Middle Eastern mediators, and push the twenty point piece
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plan as the path forward the present. In his own words,
had this to say at the signing, Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
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.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
And it's just an honored part of it.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
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, 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,
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were let go on time, on schedule. The very sad
situation of bodies, 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.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Where those bodies are.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's hard to believe that you even have to say
something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's so sad. It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
But what's not said 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 (04:38):
But we had a lot of good talent.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Steve Whitcoff, Jared and Marco and Pete and General Caine
was so great. John Ratcliffe was incredible. We had an
amazing array.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of talent, an amazing array of talent that 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 (05:17):
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 security that Israel and the Palestinians after
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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,
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but we have to keep going from here.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You can hear Hillary Quinton 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 (06:44):
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's held
hostage since October seventh, twenty twenty three, and Israel in
turn freed to hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
And 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 Kanesse.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
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 (07:28):
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 (07:33):
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 (07:55):
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 8 (08:12):
This was very much a peacemaker's speech.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Do you give him credit for this?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I mean, this is an incredible accomplishment, an incredible moment.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
It's a terrific day for the hostage families. It's a
terrific day for President Trump, for our national interests.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
He should get a lot of credit. I mean, this
was his deal.
Speaker 8 (08:30):
He worked this out.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
Listen, he got the deal across the finish line.
Speaker 9 (08:34):
There's no question things seem.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sort of possible now in a way that they didn't
necessarily before.
Speaker 9 (08:40):
A better future ahead.
Speaker 8 (08:41):
That's what today represented. It was so so powerful and
unbelievably emotional.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You listen to those members of the media, those commentators
giving credit on networks that never give Donald Trump credit,
and it puts in a perspective just how significant this
moment actually is Donald Trump historic peace deal. On NBC,
they covered it this way.
Speaker 9 (09:04):
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 (09:25):
This is the end of the age of terror and death.
This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Net Yahoo praising his American ally Donald Trump is the
greatest friend that the State of Visuel has ever had.
In the White House, going off script, the President called
on his Israeli counterpart to pardon net Yahoo, who was
indicted for allegedly accepting expensive gifts, which he denies.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Cigars and Champagne, who the hell cares about it?
Speaker 9 (09:56):
The present then heading the Egypt for a peace signing
ceremony with the Air of Nations and other world leaders
who backed the deal.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Peace has been achieved after untiring efforts, efforts led by
President Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
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 president, 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 Turkey overseeing security and reconstruction in Gaza. The French
president called for progress towards a two state solution and
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announced plans for a humanitarian aid conference for Gaza. Overall, well,
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 and you
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look at what President Trump was able to do, there
is no doubt. As NBC News put it, Trump's historic
peace deal. It is his landmark diplomatic success and it's
no telling how many lives will be saved because of
Donald Trump's leadership. President Donald Trump and Middle Eastern leaders
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sign a peace agreement in a historic Egypt summit flanked
by world leaders. After the twenty live hostages still being
held by Hamas or release back into Israel and reunited
with their families, President Trump and about two dozen world
leaders displayed a robust unity at the Middle East peace
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He's 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 signed
the documents hours after. Trump gave a powerful speech in
Tel Aviv, the President of the United States of America
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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.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
It's really working out incredibly well. The hostages, as you know,
let go on time, on schedule. The very 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 were not. And as
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they're working out to find out where those bodies are.
I try to believe they'd even have to say something
like that, and so said, and so said, for what's
not saying is and we 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
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the wall and frankly, I thought this was probably going
to be the toughest, and maybe in many ways it was.
But we had a lot of good talent. Steve wood Gough,
Jared marco Pe and General Kane's so bad. John Ratcliffe
was incredible. We had an amazing array of talent, and
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we were helped by, in particular the countries represented at
this table. I will say to maybe you were fantastic
in your country is unbelivable and I don't believe they
give you a fair shape. They talk about you as
though you're not a nice person, and you happen to
be a nice person. You haven't a It was enough Dwood.
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You're surrounded by everybody, and without year this wouldn't have happened.
And I just want to thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
That's Katar and.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
He's an amazing leader and another man who's been a
friend of mine for a long time. I don't know
what it is. I like the tough people better than
I like the soft, easy ones. I don't know what
the hell it is. It's a personality problem, I suspect.
But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one
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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.
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.
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So I just want to thank President third one Turkey
because he is it's difficult. They called me, they said,
would you do me a favorite? You speak to earn
a one, and I do. And he never fails us,
right general, he never fails. He's amazing. So I just
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want to thank you for the friendship. It's good. Thank
you very much. And then of course we have the
host tonight and I just wanted to thank you very much.
It was a reason which was Egypt, because you were
very helpful and very very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this,
but we really thought it was appropriate.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
And you are a great leader.
Speaker 10 (15:30):
You have learned of the crime. 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.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Another one and.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
My friend Fred from the beginning during the campaign against
Crooked Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Have you heard of her?
Speaker 10 (15:48):
And we were both downstairs waiting to go up to
meet this gentleman who has a place called Egypt. He
all this civilization. They say six thousand years, China's five
thousand years, but you're actually number one. Six thousand years.
Can you believe it? But the oldest, they say civilization.
But so I went up to meet them first, and
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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 her, So I always
remembered that. But that was our person media. We had
great chemistry together. And he's a fantastic man and a
fantastic general by the way, but he's a great president.
And I want to thank eachypt than all of your
representatives and treating us all so well. So we're really
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representative of a whole group of nations, and they're sitting
behind us, and you know, most of them. I can
tell you this guy's had so much money.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
They all have so money.
Speaker 10 (16:49):
There's more money and 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. They are
seriously there among the most powerful countries in the world,
of the richest countries in the world, and there's never
been really an assemblage like what we have today. I
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don't think to him, I don't I've never seen it anyway,
And I want to thank everybody for being just solve
the war for him as a boy, John did that
do that? Where did you don't think what is coming?
You're still getting along right? For for thirty two years
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and about one hour we settled it right and they
like each other, and I feel it's good past right.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well, I want to.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Thank everybody for being here. He believes he's a very
strong ruler. He's put a rigged up to God. A
big thank so manyody. We're actually gonna be making a
speech after this, so this is just a very important signing.
But we're doing the signing that, we're doing the speech,
and then I may say behind with the leaders just
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to talk about that some things without the press.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
I want to thank the media for you've been so
respectful on this year. 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
news guests, 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. So I
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just wanted to thank the media. They really treated it
with respect. I wish you could be like that on
other things, but that's perhaps too much to ask for.
But on this tremendous everybody feels the same, just tremendous respect,
and we appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Can we get the documents? Plezz.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
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 (19:14):
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 ad saying big deals. I think
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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. We'll take
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a quick break, we'll come back, and we'll also let
you hear what he had to say when he landed
in Israel as the President addressed what would be the
in essence, our Congress, Israeli's parliament. The President of the
United States of America landed in Israel and then went
to address Israeli parliament. This is not something that happens
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very often. In fact, 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
explain exactly what is happening, why we're here, and how
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important Israel is to the United States of America.
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor, nice place,
very nice place.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Mister President, mister Prime Minister, mister speakers, see members of
the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. We gather in
a day of profound joy, of soaring hope, of renewed faith,
and above all, a day to give our deepest thanks
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to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. After
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two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, twenty courageous hostages
are returning to the glorious embrace of their families.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And it is glorious.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
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 fine at peace, a land and a
region that will live God willing in peace for all eternity.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
This is not only the end of a war.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
This is the end of a age of.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
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
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of 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 BB, please stand up. And he's not easy.
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I want to tell you he's not the easiest guy
to deal with. But that's what makes him great. That's
what makes them great. Thank you very much, baby, great job,
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and that he also been very My tremendous appreciation for
all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world
that came together to press.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
Some as to set the hostages for and to send
them home. We had a lot of help. We had
a lot of help from a lot.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
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,
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a brilliant point in time. Generations from now, this will
be remembered as the moment that everything began to change
and change very.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Much for the better.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Like the USA right now, it will be the golden
age of Israel. And the Golden Age of the Middle East.
It's going to work together. 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 8 (25:57):
We were wasting our time.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
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.
Although it is an art, but there are people that
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can negotiate pretty well. 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
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be in World War three right now.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
With some of these guys.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
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 8 (27:49):
They don't think to come out.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
We're gonna hear they're a protester. One of those in
parliament apparently protested in that moment.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Sorry for that, mister President. That was very efficient. So
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back to Steve. He's but I tell one story because
he was so involved.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
And then we called in.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Joe, we call it 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 8 (29:15):
He leaked.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Steve does it 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 president as shame.
Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being killed, more
than that this last week. It's a shame that had
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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 8 (29:50):
Easily settled.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
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 8 (30:00):
But this came first, and we'll get that one.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
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 8 (30:10):
Steve had no idea about Russia.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I had no idea about Putin too much, didn't know
too much about politics.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Wasn't that interesting.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
He was really good at real estate.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
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
a half an hour into the meeting.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
No, sir, he's not.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
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 I called up. An
hour later, he is still with Putin. Three hours later,
he was still with Putin. Four hours later he started
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to get the word that he was going to be
coming out soon. Five hours he came out. I said,
what the hell were you talking about for five hours?
And he says, just a lot of interesting things. We're
talking about a lot of interesting things, including what he
went in there for. But you can't talk about it
(31:17):
for five You can talk about it for a certain
period of time and you know what you're getting.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
But that's a talent. That's a talent where you can
do that.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Most people I'd send in number one, they wouldn't be
accepted number two. If they were the meet he would
last five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody
loves him.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
They love him on this side, they love him on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
And he really is he's a great negotiator because he's
a great guy.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
So thank you very much, Sue very.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
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,
on what happened there and the team that was behind it.
It's truly remarkable as we are looking at the real
(32:09):
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
(32:29):
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 obnysseys hostages into Israel
did happen after the sun had set in Israel.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
We do know that.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
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your friends where whoever they are, and I will see
you back here tomorrow.
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