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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Trump's twenty point Gaza Plan First and foremost, I'm not
holding my breath.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Going back, going back to the Clinton.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Administration, and I'll forget this because that was on my honeymoon,
of course, and watching what was taking place while on TV,
and then going to back in the day, you know,
to an internet cafe trying to figure out whether or
not there was going to be some deal to be
had with Erafat Clinton, and.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Well he rejected it. Arafat rejected it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And yeah, here we are today, uh, you know, twenty
twenty five years later, and we've got a twenty point plan.
God willing, I hope we can see this through and
the violence will stop. But again, not holding my breath.
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I'm going to go through each and every point here.
Gaza will be a deradicalized terror free zone that does
not pose a threat to its neighbors. Then it's a
great idea. I hope it's the case. The only thing
I see with that. You want to have a de
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radicalized terror free zone. But what if there's a bad
guy here doesn't want to I want to listen and
you know.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Bombs a checkpoint. Does that mean all bets are off?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
One would assume that you're still going to have some
bad actors that are going to be out and about.
Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people
of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough. This this
is a step in the right direction. There was conversations
being had where we're going to expel everyone and Israel
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was going to take over the entire Gaza strip, so good,
good do we want that to be the case? Both
sides agreed to this proposal of the war WI immediately,
and Israeli forces will withdraw to the degreed upon line
to prepare for hostage release. During this time, all military operations,
including aerial and artillery bombardment, will be suspended and battle
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lines will remain frozen until conditions are met for the
complete stage withdrawal.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Okay, within seventy two.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement, all hostages alive
and deceased will be returned again, we hope that there
are some still alive, but we don't know if that's
the case. Again, the issue fine print, They're obviously going
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to know how long people have been dead or alive.
Will Hamas conduct a mass execution of the remaining hostages
and then return them.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
That might not sit too well understandably.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Once all hostages and again, people, I don't mean to
be glasses half empty, Okay, I don't. That's not what
I'm here to do. I'm just here offering up scenarios.
Once all hostages are released, Israel released two hundred and
fifty life sentenced prisoners plus seventeen hundred Godsins who were
detained after October seventh, including all women and children detaining
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that context, For every Israeli hostage whose remains are released,
Israel released the remains of fifteen deceased Gosins. Once all
hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co
existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty.
Members of a mass who wish to leave Goza will
be provided safe passage to receiving countries. Yeah, commit to
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peaceful co existence. We hope that's the case. We hope
that's the case again for many humas. It's almost as
if you know, the peoples that are not members of
a masque within gods that almost say, hey, listen, you
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have to leave.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
You have to leave.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Because you know you decide to start stirring things up again,
it's going to be horrible for everyone anyone. Upon acceptance
of this agreement, full aid will be immediately sent into
the Gaza Strip and a minimum aid quantities will be
consistent with what was included in the January nineteen twenty
five Agreement regarding humanitarian aid, including rehabilitation of infrastructure, water, electricity, sewage,
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rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of necessary equipment
to remove rubble and open roads. Entry of distribution and
aid in the Gaza Strip will proceed without interference from
the two parties, through the United Nations and its agencies
in the Red Crescent, in addition to other international institutions
not associated in any matter with either party. Opening the
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Rafa crossing and both directions will be subject to the
same mechanism implemented under Jerry nineteen, twenty twenty five agreement.
Gaza will be governed under the Temporary Transitional governance of
a technocratic, a political Palestine committee responsible for delivering the
day to day running of public services and municipalities for
the people in Gaza. That's again, that's going to involve
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some people from the outside. That's gonna involve some without
you know. Again, and they're saying that committe will be
made up of qualified Palestinians and international experts, with oversight
and supervision by a new international transitional body, the Board
of Peace, which will be headed and shaired by Donald Trump,
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with other members and heads of state to be announced,
including former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Again, I don't know
the reverence for that guy.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
He was involved with Bush.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
He was involved with Bush and blowing up Iraq. Gott
to bring Tony Blair into the mix anyway. This body
will set the framework and handle the funding of the
redevelopment of Gaza until such time as Palestinian authority has
completed its reform program as outlined in various proposals, including
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President Trump's Peace Plan in twenty twenty and the Saudi
French proposal, and can be securely and effectively back control
of Gaza. The body we'll call on best international standards
to create modern and efficient governance that serves the people
of Gaza and its conducive to attracting investment.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Again, I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Mean to be glass is half full. I don't mean
to be a pessimist, but I've been around a while
in these international bodies and top men and experts, more
often than not, the funds end up in some Swiss
bank account. One of the biggest financial scams in fraud
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in the history of the world as far as its
size and scope was the Iraq oil for food scandal
run when member Kolfi on On was in charge of
the You when, yeah, his son was a part of
that massive, massive theft and fraud and no top man
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international organizations that all of a sudden starts making my
skin crawl. I'm sorry it does.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You'd be better off, quite frankly, better off, quite frankly
having I'm not kidding into well regarded international corporations.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Well you don't you don't think I don't being told
says you know, you don't think that.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know Walmart? Walmart could do a.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Better job supplying goods to this area, along with Amazon
or Halibre than any of these international bodies. Am I
wrong there, Hey, we're even here in the United States.
FEMA can't even get you know, stuff out to people
in various different areas. Remember the whole Katrina episode there, Yeah,
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until we got Walmart involved. Okay, it was an absolute
disaster anyway. A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and
energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of
experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern
miracle cities in the Middle East. Many thoughtful investment proposals
and exciting development ideas have been crafted by well meaning
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international groups and will be considered to synthesize the security
and governance frameworks to attract and facilitate these investments that
will create jobs, opportunity, and hope for future gazam special
Economic Zone will be established with preferred tariff and access
rates to be negotiated with participating countries, and no on
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will be forced to leave Gaza and those who wish
to leave will be free to do so and free
to return. We will encourage people to stay and offer
them the opportunity to build a better Gaza. Hamas and
other factions agree to not have any role in governance
of Gaza. Directly, indirectly or in any form.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Boh, you gotta get them to agree to that. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
All military, terror and offensive infrastructure, including tunnels and weapons
production facills, will be destroyed and not rebuilt. There will
be a process of demilitarization of Gaza to the supervision
of independent monitors, which will include placing weapons permanently beyond
use through an agreed process of decommissioning and supported by
internationally funded buyback and reintegration program, all verified by the
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independent monitors. New Gaza will be fully committed to building
a prosperous economy and peaceful coexistence with neighbors. A guarantee
will be provided by regionable partners who ensure that Hamas
and the factions comply with their obligations and that New
Gaza poses new threat no threat to its neighbors or
its people. The United States will work with Arab International
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partners develop a temporary international stabilization for UCE immediately.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Deploy to Gaza.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
The isf WAL training profre port to vetted Palestinian police
force in Gaza, and we'll consult with Jordan and Egypt
to have extensive experience in the field. This force will
be the long term internal security solution. The ISF will
work with Israel in Egypt to secure border areas along
with newly trained Palaestinian police forces. It is critical to
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prevent munitions from entering Gaza and to facilitate the rapid
and secure flow of goods to rebuild and revitalize Gaza.
A deconfliction mechanism will be agreed upon by the parties.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Okay, all well and good, but we didn't do.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
We try that kind of sort of should have would
in Afghanistan and that didn't work out well. And again
you know many people are looking at this, well, this
is up to Hamasis is up to one side, make
no bones about it, okay, and this is just reality.
There are some very very very hard line factions within
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Israel that want Gaza, believe Gaza should be theirs, and
could also easily instigate things. Again, I'm being glass is
half empty, but maybe just because I'm beginning old and
I don't know cranky in my old age. If you will,
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Israel not occupy or annex Gaza. As the ISF established
control and stability, the Israeli Defense for the IDF will
withdraw based on standards, milestones and time frames. Linked to
demilitarization that will be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF,
the guaranteurs, and the United States with the objective of
a secure Gaza that no longer poses a threat to Israel,
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Egypt or its citizens. Practically that I will progressively hand
over the Gaza territory to occupies the ISF, according to
an agreement they will make with the Transitional Authority into
they are withdrawn completely from Gaza. There's a map that's
involved with that that I seen and the event Homaste
Laser rejects as proposal of the above, including the scaled
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up AID operation, will proceed in the terror free areas
handed over from the IDF to the ISSF, an interfaith
dialogue process will be established based on the values of
tolerance and peaceful coexistence to try to change the mindsets
and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits
that can be derived from peace.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And I want to remind everybody.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
People don't really realize that that area of the world.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Was pretty darn peaceful.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
For a long period of time prior to you know
what happened posts World War One, World War two, the
creation of Israel, under the Ottoman Empire. For Genet it
was fine. There really weren't many issues there. So again,
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can they go back to that While Gaza redevelopment advances,
and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out,
the conditions may finally be in place for a credible
pathway to Palestinian self determination and statehood, which we recognize
as the aspiration of the Palestinian people. The United States
will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to
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agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It is ambitious, ambitious, to say the least. And I
think Trump's doing the right thing.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
I do.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
I don't think he's a He's a warmonger by any
stretch of the imagination, and I think he most certainly
would like to see this resolve. I mean as a
game changer for presidency. You go back to Clinton, and
you know he talks about it to this day. There's
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the biggest failure of his presidency to you know, finally,
you know, not to have some sort of conclusion to
this problem. Garrett, here we are twenty five years later.
I guess each and every one of us should say
a Rosary or a prayer to to hope, God willing
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