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News Talk eleven nine three WBT. I'm Brett Witable. It's
a pleasure to be with you here today, with you
all the way up till six o'clock, well just before
six pm. It is. It's awesome to be with you.
I'm very excited because it looks like we are going
to see some sort of action at some point here
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as it relates to the hostages that have been held
over in Hamasastan. And I am fundamentally of good mood,
good nature today because I think this is the start
of something that's very very important all the way around.
And I think when people start to look at and
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think about the stakes of this fight, I think there
are a number of things that are very very important.
So what I want to do, just to kind of
set the table here is to take a look at
what it is that we're seeing. And what we are
seeing is the return of the United States of America
to the proper position that we haven't really had since
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my God, I would say, Barack Hussein Obama and Joe
Hussein Biden, I would say since since really two thousand
and eight. Because President Trump back in his first term,
was trying to make the country stronger was trying to
get the border under control, stuff like that. But now
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we are finally back where we belong. We are back
where we belong, up on top of the pinnacle driving policy.
And I got to tell you something. If you don't
think back to the point in time, honestly, here's what
I'll say. I'll say, this is probably the first time
that we're in serious position for anything since I'll go
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I'll go all the way back to nine to eleven.
I will go all the way back to nine eleven,
because I don't think that George W. Bush was particularly
spectacular with his sidekick Dick Cheney back when we got
attacked on nine to eleven. And so I think we
are going way back. We are This might be a
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direct lineage to the Reagan administration, the last Reagan administration,
maybe the old Bush administration as well. But if we
go back in time and we think about this, America
is in its proper place and we have the ability
to call the shots. From October the seventh, twenty twenty
three to October twenty twenty five, the Israel Hamas War
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had resulted in sixty seven thousand deaths in Gaza, sixty
seven thousand deaths, two thousand deaths in Israel, massive humanitarian, military,
and economic costs, and the scale of destruction and displacement
is unprecedented in the region's history. The reason why it
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is so so horrifying to look at this is because
nobody was steering the ship until Trump got in in
that second term. It is indisputable. If you don't want
to believe it, you can just go take a nap
and listen to the podcast, because I'm going to break
all this down for you so you'll understand exactly the
context that I'm talking about. The initial attack. On October
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the seventh, twenty twenty three, Hamas launched a surprise attack
on southern Israel. Casualties twelve hundred Israelis killed, including nine
hundred civilians hostages two hundred and fifty taken into Gaza,
including women, children, and the elderly. That also happened the
weapons that were used. Twenty two hundred rockets were fired
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into Israel. That's at the very beginning on the attack.
The Israeli military response was airstrikes and a ground defensive.
Over six thousand bombs were dropped on Gaza in the
initial months, targeted hospitals, schools, infrastructure, basically everything you would
want to try to target if you were really trying
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to pulverize the enemy. So over the course of time,
you've got a number of sixty seven thousand Palestinians killed,
including twenty thousand children, averaging one child killed per hour
over twenty four months, injuries of over one hundred and
sixty nine thousand wounded with many life altering injuries, and
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people who are missing. Eleven thousand casualties in Israel two thousand,
including nine hundred and thirteen IDF soldiers and injuries twenty
thousand IDF wounded. You have to understand that because Israel
is such a small country, that is a massive, outsized
sort of cost for the Israeli IDF. You have displacement
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in Gaza of one point nine million displaced ninety percent
of the population it Israel. You had one hundred thousand
internally displaced, and of course you had a whole bunch
of his historic, horrible sort of people who had lost
their lives, including doctors and health and aid workers and
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all of this. So I say this because I'm happy
that there is a pathway out of this fight. Now
I'm going to get calls today, and I know who
you are, and you're going to say it's not perfect,
it's not perfect. The Israelis suck, the Amas people are awesome.
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We're gonna get all of that come in our way.
I understand that, and that's fine because I have responses
for all of that sort of stuff. But in the
hostage situation, this is something that is like really bad.
One hundred and forty hostages released via swaps or rescue.
Forty eight remain in Gaza, including twenty eight who have
been confirmed dead. Those people, those people had no business
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being held as hostages. They should have been released. They
should have been released, And so for that, I hope,
I hope that this never happens again, because this is
a pure play against individuals who have nothing to do
with the warring factions. They're just people who are at
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a music festival. And you see, and I would encourage you,
if you have the stomach for it, go back and
look at what that attack looked like in October, on
October the seventh, twenty twenty three, Go back, look at it,
Go look at the women getting pushed onto trailers and
trucks and all that. But anti Semites typically do not
want to look at it that way. They think of
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it about something. It's like a weird thing, you know.
You get these you get these people who will call
the show and say, yeah, but they what, No, they
didn't deserve to be raped. They didn't deserve to be
murdered at a show. It wasn't anything that can be justifiable.
Tens of billions of dollars in military spending, reconstruction and
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displacement support weapons, deployed tanks, drones, fighter jets, precision guided munitions,
and cyber warfare tools. When it came from Gaza. Infrastructure
damage estimated in the tens of billions, with entire neighborhoods flattened,
blockade intensified, cutting off fuel, cutting off water, cutting off electricity,
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all of that stuff. All for that to mean what winnable?
This is the longest sustained is rarely military operation in
Gaza's history. Ongoing occupation and control over Gaza's borders, airspace,
and aid access ceasefires have been brief and fragile and
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frighteningly intermittent. So what's happening now? The operation that is
happening now that Donald Trump brokered with the partners around
the Middle East is very easy to understand. This is
getting separation between these two groups. This is what is happening.
This is a separation between the two groups. I'll break
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it down for you as we get straight ahead. But
there is a strategy here in place, and I'm fascinated
to go into the details of this. I think there
are some upside things, some dangerous things, but I think
ultimately this is about getting the two combatant elements to
be separated.