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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report
weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump has done it. We now have a ceasefire
deal in Gaza. Good morning, Cooner contry. Okay, my friends,
let me be the first one to say it. Give
Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, because my God, does he
(00:31):
deserve it. If any man on this planet deserves it,
it is President Donald J. Trump. And so yesterday it
was building. For a couple of days. There was a
lot of momentum, but finally there was this historic breakthrough yesterday.
They are now dancing in the streets of Tel Aviv
(00:53):
in Jerusalem in Gaza. Rarely do Palestinians and Israelis agree
on anything, but on this they agree. Peace is nigh.
It is very close. They can smell it, they can
sense it. An historic ceasefire deal was agreed to yesterday
(01:15):
between Israel and Hamas, and both sides agree. Again, they
rarely agree on anything, but both sides agree that President Trump,
his determination, his vision, his driving ambition to make this happen,
(01:35):
was the decisive force that decided to breakthrough. So here
is now the breaking news as was unfolding for the
last twelve to about fourteen hours, negotiators Israeli and Hamas
have been meeting in Egypt right near the Red Sea,
and for about the last seventy two hours they have
(01:58):
been trying to hammer out the first phase of Trump's
twenty point plan to decisively and finally end the war
in Gaza. Trump has put forth a very bold, ambitious
twenty point plan that both Israel, the Netanyahu government and
(02:21):
Hamas have agreed to in principle. And now the key
first step, which is what they agreed to yesterday, was
to implement a ceasefire to stop the fighting. And what
has really gotten people very excited the release of all
of the Israeli hostages. There are about forty eight hostages
(02:46):
that Hamas still have. They believe about twenty eight of
them are dead, but they're still holding the bodies. The
family members would like to see the bodies return to
them to give them a proper, decent, respectful burial. But
there is believe to be at least about twenty living
(03:08):
Israeli hostages that family, parents, friends. Frankly, almost the whole
nation of Israel has been praying for day and night.
According now to the News that came out yesterday. They
are expected to be released either this weekend or Trump
(03:29):
now says most likely on Monday. But the twenty living
hostages will be coming home. The other twenty eight dead
hostages will all be returned or their remains will be returned.
It will take a little bit longer because they have
(03:49):
them in different parts of Goza underneath their tunnels, but
Hamas has pledged to get them all back within about
ten days. Now. As for the Palestinians, what do they
get out of this? Netanyahu has made a very difficult decision,
and it is a massive concession to release countless Palestinian prisoners,
(04:14):
many of them in prison for life sentences for terrorist actions,
terrorist murders of innocent Jewish civilians. So Israel had to
give a lot to get these hostages back. But the
fact of the matter is the deal has been pretty
(04:34):
much inked. They want to formalize it today. Once it
is formalized today, President Trump is planning on visiting Israel
this weekend. At a minimum, he wants to go to Gaza,
meet with Palestinian leaders, talk to Palestinian civilians, meet with
(04:56):
Israeli leaders, and he also would like to go to
each and maybe try to push the process along even
quicker to get a comprehensive piece deal done over the
next couple of days. It is an historic moment and
an historic deal. Listen now to President Trump. He called
(05:19):
in the Fox News Sean Hannity last night to say,
the hostages are coming home. Roll cut one hundred, do
a mic.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The big thing is, hostages are going to be released.
It's probably our time would be probably Monday. And you know,
it's they're terribly a terrible situation. They're they're deep, they're
deep in the earth, and they're being gotten. And a
lot of things are happening right now as we speak.
So much is happening to get the hostages freed, and
(05:55):
we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Crying. I'm telling you, you can see scenes. It's actually
very moving. They are crying in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem,
in towns and cities, people are gathering spontaneously. You would think,
I don't know, Israel won the World Cup in soccer
or something. They are gathered. You know, people are just
(06:20):
pouring out onto the streets. They are dancing. People are
literally crying tears of joy. In Gaza, there are now
celebrations as well, because a ceasefire now is at hand,
and the possibility now of a final peace deal is
at hand. The war now may be finally coming to
an end, this long, brutal two year war. And so
(06:44):
you see them dancing, popping champagne corks. Anyway, we don't
want to get ahead of ourselves, but there's no question
now that this is a massive breakthrough. This is an
historic ceasefire accord, and this would be now the first
decisive step towards an overall permanent piece. Now, let me
(07:08):
just say a few things and then I would love
to hear the input from all of you Kuner country.
The phone six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight lines are open if you want to jump now.
I want to take as many calls on this issue
and as early as I can. What happened is as follows.
(07:30):
President Trump put maximum pressure on both Israel and on
Hamas to make a deal. And what he did was
he got the Arab States and this is the key
countries that were involved. He got Saudi Arabia, he got
(07:50):
cutter guitar, Turkey and Egypt to tell the Hamas leadership
that there are days in power are over, that their
backing is now over, that they are going to have
to now concede to reality that Hamas has lost the war,
(08:12):
that Israel has lost the war. Sorry, that Israel has
won the war, and that Hamas has lost the war.
Trump made it very clear to Netanyahu that Israel is
becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage. It is slowly
becoming a pariah due to these very horrifying images that
(08:38):
the media has been manipulating, like CNN and the BBC
and others showing starving Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
And so that it is now in Israel's interest to
wind down this war and take the victory that they
(08:59):
have achieved and start to rebuild and reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
And so what Trump is now laid out is as follows.
It is a twenty point plan. At the heart of
this plan is that eventually the Palestinians will get a state.
(09:22):
They will achieve an independent state, not overnight, this is
going to be done over several phases, over several years,
but that the West Bank in Gaza will come together
for an independent, free Palestinian state with billions of dollars,
(09:43):
most of it funded by the Arab Muslim world. This
is where the Saudis, Katar, the Gulf Sheikhs Turkey are
going to play an instrumental role because they're going to
be putting up billions and billions of dollars for the
full reconstruction and reb building of the Gaza strip. There
will be an interim Palestinian government consisting of sort of
(10:08):
technocrats who will oversee this transition slowly towards the rebuilding
of Gaza and towards an eventual independent Palestinian state. Above tech,
this interim Palestinian government is what's called a Board of Peace.
(10:29):
President Trump will be the chair the chairman of this
Board of Peace along with he's going to have another
key member sitting with him, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
And this Board of Peace is going to oversee this
Palestinian interim government. Now, the Arab States will be able
(10:52):
to send in peacekeepers and they will be the military
guaranteurs of an independent pace Aalestine. However, Hamas must be
totally dismantled. Hamas must be totally disarmed. They have to
hand over all of their weapons and if they pledge
(11:14):
to give up terrorism. They will be given a full
amnesty and will not be assassinated or face retribution or
justice for their crimes. That's, in essence, the deal.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You're locked into. Boston's Bulldozer, The Kuner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
Boston's Bulldozer operates seven days a week. The Kuner Report
weekend edition WRKO, the Voice of Boston.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
President Trump has done it. We now have a ceasefire
deal in Gaza. Good morning, Cooner contry. Okay, my friends,
let me be the first one to say it. Give
Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, because my God, does he
(00:31):
deserve it. If any man on this planet deserves it,
it is President Donald J. Trump. And so yesterday it
was building. For a couple of days. There was a
lot of momentum, but finally there was this historic breakthrough yesterday.
They are now dancing in the streets of Tel Aviv
(00:53):
in Jerusalem in Gaza. Rarely do Palestinians and Israelis agree
on anything, but on this they agree. Peace is nigh.
It is very close. They can smell it, they can
sense it. An historic ceasefire deal was agreed to yesterday
(01:15):
between Israel and Hamas, and both sides agree. Again, they
rarely agree on anything, but both sides agree that President Trump,
his determination, his vision, his driving ambition to make this happen,
(01:35):
was the decisive force that decided to breakthrough. So here
is now the breaking news as was unfolding for the
last twelve to about fourteen hours, negotiators Israeli and Hamas
have been meeting in Egypt right near the Red Sea,
and for about the last seventy two hours they have
(01:58):
been trying to hammer out the first phase of Trump's
twenty point plan to decisively and finally end the war
in Gaza. Trump has put forth a very bold, ambitious
twenty point plan that both Israel, the Netanyahu government and
(02:21):
Hamas have agreed to in principle. And now the key
first step, which is what they agreed to yesterday, was
to implement a ceasefire to stop the fighting. And what
has really gotten people very excited the release of all
of the Israeli hostages. There are about forty eight hostages
(02:46):
that Hamas still have. They believe about twenty eight of
them are dead, but they're still holding the bodies. The
family members would like to see the bodies return to
them to give them a proper, decent, respectful burial. But
there is believe to be at least about twenty living
(03:08):
Israeli hostages that family, parents, friends. Frankly, almost the whole
nation of Israel has been praying for day and night.
According now to the News that came out yesterday. They
are expected to be released either this weekend or Trump
(03:29):
now says most likely on Monday. But the twenty living
hostages will be coming home. The other twenty eight dead
hostages will all be returned or their remains will be returned.
It will take a little bit longer because they have
(03:49):
them in different parts of Goza underneath their tunnels, but
Hamas has pledged to get them all back within about
ten days. Now. As for the Palestinians, what do they
get out of this? Netanyahu has made a very difficult decision,
and it is a massive concession to release countless Palestinian prisoners,
(04:14):
many of them in prison for life sentences for terrorist actions,
terrorist murders of innocent Jewish civilians. So Israel had to
give a lot to get these hostages back. But the
fact of the matter is the deal has been pretty
(04:34):
much inked. They want to formalize it today. Once it
is formalized today, President Trump is planning on visiting Israel
this weekend. At a minimum, he wants to go to Gaza,
meet with Palestinian leaders, talk to Palestinian civilians, meet with
(04:56):
Israeli leaders, and he also would like to go to
each and maybe try to push the process along even
quicker to get a comprehensive piece deal done over the
next couple of days. It is an historic moment and
an historic deal. Listen now to President Trump. He called
(05:19):
in the Fox News Sean Hannity last night to say,
the hostages are coming home. Roll cut one hundred, do
a mic.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
The big thing is, hostages are going to be released.
It's probably our time would be probably Monday. And you know,
it's they're terribly a terrible situation. They're they're deep, they're
deep in the earth, and they're being gotten. And a
lot of things are happening right now as we speak.
So much is happening to get the hostages freed, and
(05:55):
we think they'll all be coming back on Monday.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Crying. I'm telling you, you can see scenes. It's actually
very moving. They are crying in Tel Aviv, in Jerusalem,
in towns and cities, people are gathering spontaneously. You would think,
I don't know, Israel won the World Cup in soccer
or something. They are gathered. You know, people are just
(06:20):
pouring out onto the streets. They are dancing. People are
literally crying tears of joy. In Gaza, there are now
celebrations as well, because a ceasefire now is at hand,
and the possibility now of a final peace deal is
at hand. The war now may be finally coming to
an end, this long, brutal two year war. And so
(06:44):
you see them dancing, popping champagne corks. Anyway, we don't
want to get ahead of ourselves, but there's no question
now that this is a massive breakthrough. This is an
historic ceasefire accord, and this would be now the first
decisive step towards an overall permanent piece. Now, let me
(07:08):
just say a few things and then I would love
to hear the input from all of you Kuner country.
The phone six one seven two six six sixty eight
sixty eight lines are open if you want to jump now.
I want to take as many calls on this issue
and as early as I can. What happened is as follows.
(07:30):
President Trump put maximum pressure on both Israel and on
Hamas to make a deal. And what he did was
he got the Arab States and this is the key
countries that were involved. He got Saudi Arabia, he got
(07:50):
cutter guitar, Turkey and Egypt to tell the Hamas leadership
that there are days in power are over, that their
backing is now over, that they are going to have
to now concede to reality that Hamas has lost the war,
(08:12):
that Israel has lost the war. Sorry, that Israel has
won the war, and that Hamas has lost the war.
Trump made it very clear to Netanyahu that Israel is
becoming increasingly isolated on the world stage. It is slowly
becoming a pariah due to these very horrifying images that
(08:38):
the media has been manipulating, like CNN and the BBC
and others showing starving Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip.
And so that it is now in Israel's interest to
wind down this war and take the victory that they
(08:59):
have achieved and start to rebuild and reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
And so what Trump is now laid out is as follows.
It is a twenty point plan. At the heart of
this plan is that eventually the Palestinians will get a state.
(09:22):
They will achieve an independent state, not overnight, this is
going to be done over several phases, over several years,
but that the West Bank in Gaza will come together
for an independent, free Palestinian state with billions of dollars,
(09:43):
most of it funded by the Arab Muslim world. This
is where the Saudis, Katar, the Gulf Sheikhs Turkey are
going to play an instrumental role because they're going to
be putting up billions and billions of dollars for the
full reconstruction and reb building of the Gaza strip. There
will be an interim Palestinian government consisting of sort of
(10:08):
technocrats who will oversee this transition slowly towards the rebuilding
of Gaza and towards an eventual independent Palestinian state. Above tech,
this interim Palestinian government is what's called a Board of Peace.
(10:29):
President Trump will be the chair the chairman of this
Board of Peace along with he's going to have another
key member sitting with him, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
And this Board of Peace is going to oversee this
Palestinian interim government. Now, the Arab States will be able
(10:52):
to send in peacekeepers and they will be the military
guaranteurs of an independent pace Aalestine. However, Hamas must be
totally dismantled. Hamas must be totally disarmed. They have to
hand over all of their weapons and if they pledge
(11:14):
to give up terrorism. They will be given a full
amnesty and will not be assassinated or face retribution or
justice for their crimes. That's, in essence, the deal.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
You're locked into. Boston's Bulldozer, The Kuner Report weekend edition,
The Voice of Boston WRKO
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