A ceasefire has been negotiated by the President of the United States and his team between Israel and the remnants of Hamas, and most importantly, to release the 20 live hostages and 28 dead bodies that were being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:10.000But while we are here, obviously, peace has now broken out.
00:00:13.000A ceasefire has been negotiated by the President of the United States and his team between Israel and the remnants of Hamas, most importantly, to release the 20 live hostages and 28 dead bodies that were being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
00:00:27.000And this is a near miraculous move by the President of the United States.
00:00:31.000He was able to mobilize the entire world, including the Arab world, to put pressure on Hamas to release these 20 live hostages.
00:00:39.000I mean, truly, uh, unless you spend time over in Israel, you you can't really understand the intensity of the feeling around the hostages.
00:00:46.000I think that most other countries look at this sort of situation.
00:00:48.000They say, okay, you have a terrorist group that took hostages.
00:00:51.000Are you really willing to go house to house for two years instead of just aerially bombing the place in order to get those hostages out?
00:00:59.000Are you really willing to sacrifice legitimately hundreds of soldiers to death and wounding in order to protect hostages and try to save those hostages?
00:01:10.000That is a thing that Israel has been willing to do.
00:01:12.000And this has been the scimitar hanging over the head of the Israelis since the very beginning of the war.
00:01:17.000Israel has had to stop and start the war half a dozen times.
00:01:20.000Israel has had to take measures that no sane country would have to take in order to try and ensure the safety of its hostages.
00:01:26.000Israel has had to move slowly and meticulously and risk the hatred of the world in order for those hostages to get out.
00:01:33.000And so the fact that the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were somehow able to put together a deal in which the 20 hostages who are alive came out all at once, which is what happened on Monday morning.
00:01:47.000And they were able to do that without allowing Hamas to fully reconstitute in the Gaza Strip.
00:01:52.000The IDF is still present in some 53% of the Gaza Strip.
00:01:56.000Right now, actually, the situation on the ground in Gaza is that Hamas is having firefights with a bunch of local militia groups over who is going to control Gaza next.
00:02:05.000And in the end, there will have to be some sort of heavy hand put on the remnants of Hamas, whether that happens from an international group, the way President Trump is talking, whether that happens via the IDF.
00:02:15.000What we do know is that Israel's long national nightmare with regards to these hostages is now effectively over because all 20 of them came out on Monday, and that's an extraordinary credit to President Trump.
00:02:28.000Well, Team Trump was on the ground over the weekend.
00:02:32.000Jared Kushner, who is very involved with these hostage negotiations, he was on the ground, so was Steve Whitkoff, who of course was quite involved in the hostage negotiations, so is Ivanka Trump.
00:02:42.000They were on the ground in Tel Aviv, and they stopped by hostage square, which is a section of Tel Aviv that has been set up where there are protests pretty much every single weekend.
00:02:51.000Now, a lot of those protests are merely just a sort of cry of anger and pain over the fact that hostages were held for two long years since October 7th, 2023.
00:03:02.000There are some members of the hostage forum who are just opposed to the current prime minister of the state of Israel.
00:03:07.000But whatever the reason, the unbridled joy felt by all Israelis at the return of the hostages, it's overwhelming.
00:03:14.000And by the way, it's not just Israelis, it is Jews everywhere, and I think a lot of good hearted people everywhere, including the president of the United States.
00:03:20.000I can say that in my synagogue in Florida, at that synagogue, we say a special prayer for the Chatu theme.
00:03:26.000That's the Hebrew word for the hostages.
00:03:28.000We've been doing it every single day since the beginning of the war.
00:03:32.000It's why you see all these yellow ribbons everywhere.
00:03:35.000Well, Jared Kushner over the weekend went and visited Hostage Square and thanked Steve Whitkoff and President Trump while the crowd went nuts.
00:03:42.000The thing to understand is that in Israel, the Trump administration has a 197% approval rating.
00:03:48.000There is no one in Israel, with very rare exceptions, typically from the radical Arab parties that does not love President Trump.
00:04:45.000And I have to tell you, it's been an honor to me to work with such a special man who's approached this impossible task with a full heart and with a full commitment.
00:04:59.000And when things got tough and we ran into brick walls, every time that happened, we just said, let's make a new plan.
00:05:07.000And that's what being partners with Steve was like.
00:05:16.000And I also have to say, working with President Trump on this, his commitment to seeing peace, to seeing the hostages return home, to seeing Israel secure and safe, and to seeing the entire Middle East stable and thriving, is unmatched.
00:05:38.000Meanwhile, Jared also said that he couldn't be more proud to support Israel.
00:05:42.000Of course, Jared has been extraordinarily instrumental with regard to everything from the movement of the embassy to Jerusalem during Trump's first term to the acknowledgement of the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory during the first term to the insurance that Israel would be able to get its hostages out without having to quote unquote give up Gaza to Hamas.
00:06:02.000Here was Kushner talking about his support for Israel.
00:06:05.000I couldn't be more proud to see the way that the state of Israel and its people have carried themselves through this traumatic, unthinkable, horrific experience.
00:06:21.000Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional.
00:06:31.000You chose to stand for the values that you stand for.
00:06:35.000And I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel, somebody who supports Israel, and somebody who fights very strongly to see Israel survive, succeed, and to achieve its fullest potential.
00:06:50.000Meanwhile, Ivanka, who of course is Jared's wife, and she's a convert to Judaism.
00:06:56.000She stopped by Hostage Square, where she said that she was praying that this week would be one of healing.
00:07:03.000I mean, I have to say, again, the emotion here is just overwhelming.
00:07:07.000This evening begins the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which is a holiday that we celebrate when we get to the end of the reading of the Bible, the five books of Moses.
00:07:17.000When we read the five books of Moses, we separate it out week by week.
00:07:19.000So every year we go through the entire five books of Moses.
00:07:22.000Simchat Torah is where we actually finish reading it.
00:07:52.000The return of each hostage is not only a moment of homecoming and relief, it's a triumph of faith, of courage, and of our shared humanity.
00:08:06.000applause applause applause We pray and so many people are working so hard so hard to ensure that this coming week is one of healing for you all applause applause
00:08:29.000One of healing as we begin and embark on the next chapter, which God willing, after far too long, will be a lasting and enduring peace.
00:08:44.000Now, to understand what it means that the hostages were released.
00:08:48.000And again, it's not just that the hostages were released.
00:08:50.000It's that Israel maintains a forward military posture with regard to Hamas.
00:08:54.000It's that Israel has defenestrated Hamas.
00:08:57.000I mean, totally wiped out their offensive capacity to Do war, at least for the moment.
00:09:01.000They may try to reconstitute, and that will require further Israeli action or international action.
00:09:05.000But when this war began, as I've said a thousand times, Israel was threatened not just from the Gaza Strip, where 1,200 Jews had been murdered, and 250 had been taken hostage into the Gaza Strip, along with some others.
00:09:19.000But Israel was threatened on its northern border by Hezbollah, a massively powerful terrorist group, funded by Iran, run out of Lebanon by Hassan Nasrallah.
00:09:31.000Iran was threatening nuclear development.
00:09:34.000There's terrorism brewing in Judea and Samaria, the so-called West Bank.
00:09:38.000And at the end of this war, Israel stands in a strong military posture with regard to the Gaza Strip, having completely destroyed every member of the upper echelon of Hamas.
00:09:47.000They killed Hassan Nasrallah and destroyed Hezbollah's rocket capacity with extraordinarily creative military action, including that famous beeper attack.
00:09:56.000They hit Hezbollah so hard that the Assad regime fell thanks to the predations of Turkey, pushing HTS into power in Syria.
00:10:04.000And then Israel launched Operation Amkilavi Rising Lion, which involved the attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities capped off by President Trump's attacks with B2 bombers, one sortie finishing off the Fordau nuclear facility in Tehran in Iran.
00:10:21.000I mean, that's an astonishing turnabout.
00:10:25.000Without that happening, the hostages don't come out.
00:10:27.000Because Hamas just would have had that support level.
00:10:30.000By the way, the hostages probably don't come out unless Israel also tries to take out the Hamas leadership in Qatar, sending the signal to Qatar that either they start to play ball or things might start happening in their country as well.
00:10:41.000Alrighty, folks, more on a historic day and time in Israel and in the Middle East more broadly first.
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00:15:14.000Okay, here is what it looked like, however, in hostage square in Tel Aviv, when people found out that the Israeli hostages were coming home.
00:15:34.000Meanwhile, President Trump gets on Air Force One and comes to the Middle East.
00:15:38.000He has had obviously an extraordinary run in the Middle East, the most transformative president of mine or any lifetime actually, in the Middle East, totally reshuffling the cards in the Middle East.
00:15:49.000Remember, when President Trump took office in the first place, Iran was on the rise.
00:15:53.000Its terror proxies were threatening pretty much every American allied country in the region, including places like UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.
00:16:01.000And President Trump has now transformed the region into a place where peace seems to be on the rise.
00:16:07.000Not just the Abraham Accords in his first term, but now thanks to the defenestration of Hamas, the end of Hezbollah, or at least the complete hampering of Hezbollah, the killing of its leadership, the destruction, or massive setbacks to the Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:16:21.000Now it looks as though peace could be on the way.
00:16:24.000Here is President Trump in a kind of surprisingly moving moment, I think, talking about what he believes that he has done for the world and his place with God.
00:18:20.000Then, of course, Air Force One landed in Israel, and here is the tape of that.
00:18:47.000So President Trump gets out and he hobnobs with the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the rest of Netanyahu's team, the presidents of Israel, Bouji Herzog, Isaac Herzog is there as well.
00:19:01.000And the president then offers a ride to Netanyahu in his car in the beast over to the Knesset.
00:19:07.000So it's about a 45-minute drive from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:19:10.000The roads are at least partially shut down to allow for that to happen.
00:19:14.000Now, in the meantime, I got an invite from the ambassador, Huckabee.
00:19:20.000Thank you very much for that, because it's an amazing, amazing experience, to actually watch this historic moment.
00:19:24.000Probably the most historic moment in Israeli history since maybe the founding in 1948.
00:19:31.000Other contenders might be the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967.
00:19:34.000But probably those are the only three that are on the table is the establishment of the state in 48, the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967 with the six-day war, and President Trump culminating a two-year-long war against foes on seven fronts with a victory speech at the Knesset.
00:19:50.000So I had the opportunity to actually get there and walk around a fair bit.
00:19:58.000There are a lot of people who had brought hats that say Trump, the peace president, which you can see on the tape, actually in the crowd when President Trump was speaking.
00:20:05.000President Trump didn't go directly into the Knesset Chamber, the parliamentary chamber, which pulled maybe seven, eight hundred people.
00:20:12.000Instead, he actually met with the Prime Minister and the President of Israel and some of the hostage families.
00:20:50.000General Raisin Kane, Dan Raising Cain was there as well.
00:20:54.000And as they all came in, there were big ovations for pretty much everybody who came in out of gratitude by Israelis for the Trump administration.
00:21:04.000And then there was a fanfare, and President Trump entered the Israeli Knesset, and he was essentially introduced by Amir Ohana, who is the speaker of the Knesset.
00:21:16.000Here he was receiving a standing ovation.
00:23:06.000So after paying tribute to the President of the United States, Amir Ohana also paid tribute to the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who's a very controversial figure in Israel.
00:23:15.000There are a lot of people on the left who do not like him very much.
00:23:18.000There are some people who have been, you know, extraordinarily hateful toward him and his family, for sure.
00:23:23.000He has taken an enormous number of slings and arrows, has the Prime Minister over the course of the last couple of years.
00:23:46.000But the leadership that Netanyahu has displayed over the course of the last two years, taking on the slings and arrows, taking on the lies that have been told about Israel, standing up against the slow walking of aid from Joe Biden, attempting to navigate the difficulties of a dual purpose war, one to free the hostages, two to defeat Hamas, and then take on challenges on a wide variety of other fronts, ranging from an existential threat in Hezbollah to another existential threat in Iran.
00:25:09.000We'll get to more on this historic day in just a moment.
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00:27:27.000So I think that this entire event, just so folks know, the entire event was scheduled to run an hour, an hour and a half.
00:27:33.000Basically, the idea was going to be that the president landed at Bengorian Airport at maybe 9 20 a.m.
00:27:39.000Israel time, did a quick event on the tarmac, and then made his way to the Knesset.
00:27:44.000He ended up getting to the Knesset probably around 11 a.m.
00:27:46.000He was supposed to originally speak around 11 a.m.
00:27:49.000Instead, because of the meeting with the hostages and everything, he probably didn't enter the room until 12 30.
00:27:54.000Then the speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana, gave quite a beautiful speech.
00:27:58.000Actually, there's quite a moving moment in Amir Ohana's speech where he took the pin, these famous yellow hostage pins that you've seen, not just on Israelis, but on a lot of caring people of all different sorts.
00:28:08.000He actually took his hostage pin off because all the live hostages were back in Israel.
00:28:40.000That was a highly moving moment, obviously.
00:28:42.000And then he introduced Prime Minister Netanyahu, who got up to speak.
00:28:47.000And Prime Minister Netanyahu, of course, paid extraordinary tribute to the President of the United States, and the entire room burst out into chants of President Trump.
00:28:58.000But it's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.
00:29:02.000Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.
00:29:39.000Netanyahu also, of course, didn't just praise Trump's decision-making acumen with regard to the hostage deal.
00:29:46.000He also thanked him for Operation Midnight Hammer, which was the B2 Sortie that President Trump authorized to blow up the Ford nuclear facility in Iran.
00:30:54.000Yayir Lapid is the head of his own party there and the leader of the opposition bloc.
00:30:59.000Lapid gave uh what I thought was actually quite a gracious and and wonderful speech.
00:31:04.000He talked about how the attempt by the world to isolate Israel by telling lies about it, how that was wrong.
00:31:12.000He also, of course, had words of extraordinarily warm praise for President Trump.
00:31:17.000Here's a little bit of what he had to say.
00:31:19.000From here, I say to all those who demonstrated against Israel these past two years on the streets of London and Rome, in Paris, and in Columbia University.
00:31:33.000I do not represent the government as you know.
00:32:10.000I mean, the energy in the room was so high.
00:32:15.000The way that the room was seated, just for those who are in the room, the way the room is seated, it's kind of a U shape around the president of the United States who's standing at the front.
00:32:22.000The bottom floor is all the members of the Israeli parliament.
00:32:25.000Up and to the president's right would have been members of the press for the most part.
00:32:29.000Ahead of him were members of the cabinet, cabinet officials and friends of the president.
00:32:34.000And then on the left, there would have been guests of both the embassy of the United States as well as guests of the Speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana.
00:32:44.000I was on that left section as sort of a friend of the embassy.
00:32:47.000And then behind that, there's glass and there are many, many more guests there, including a whole block of hostage families.
00:32:53.000The president of the United States gets up to speak.
00:33:00.000And here's President Trump announcing that the hostages are indeed back.
00:33:03.000Deeply, deeply moving moment, triumphal moment for the president of the United States, who has done more heavy lifting in the most difficult region of the world than any other person, bar none in American history.
00:33:15.000This president of the United States, he won't just go down in Jewish history, obviously, he'll go down in American history and in world history for the work that he's done in the Middle East.
00:33:23.000Here is the president announcing that the hostages are back.
00:33:27.000After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families, and it is glorious.
00:33:40.000Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time.
00:33:50.000And 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 land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity.
00:34:11.000And then the president made some moving statements about his thanks to Now, I will say it was partially a religious event for people who believe in the Bible.
00:34:31.000There were actual blessings that were said by Jews.
00:34:33.000There was a point at which the speaker of the Knesset actually put on a yarmulke.
00:34:36.000He doesn't normally wear yamaka, he put on yamaka in order to say a blessing over the presence of Donald J. Trump.
00:34:46.000Uh it's it that Jews say when something unusual or extraordinary happens, they say a blessing called Shaheyanu, which is thanks to God for bringing us to this time.
00:34:56.000And that was said in the parliament as well.
00:34:57.000And then the president returned the favor by giving his deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
00:35:05.000Mr. Speaker, esteemed members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel.
00:35:13.000We gather on a day of profound joy, of soaring hope of renewed faith, and above all, a day to give our deepest thanks to the almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
00:35:32.000Alrighty, more coming up in just a moment.
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00:36:56.000He was a great man doing great things.
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00:37:59.000But the most fraught moment happened when two members of the Israeli parliament, okay.
00:38:04.000This is why when people say Israel's an apartheid state, it's ridiculous.
00:38:07.000Two members of the Israeli parliament, like sitting members of the Israeli Knesset are from the Arab parties.
00:38:13.000There are two Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset.
00:38:15.000One is considered slightly more moderate than the other, but neither is particularly moderate.
00:38:18.000And two of these members of the Israeli Knesset, there'd been an announcement at the beginning by the speaker of the Knesset that there wouldn't be any disturbances, any disturbances, people would be removed.
00:38:28.000And at a certain point, they got up and they started shouting about genocide, and they held up pieces of paper and they were cleared from the room by Israeli security and some of the other members of the Knesset.
00:38:37.000And President Trump's response was classic Trump.
00:39:43.000There were many moments that were hilariously funny, but obviously the the overall tenor of the speech was triumphal, but it had its serious moments for sure.
00:39:53.000President Trump said that there are two messages that America understands when it comes to Israel.
00:40:02.000And to all the families whose lives were forever changed by the atrocities of that day and all of the people of Israel, please know that America joins you in those two everlasting vows.
00:40:19.000The president also laid out what comes next, and that is not just the return of hostages, but a fully disarmed Hamas and a demilitarized Gaza.
00:40:42.000How that happens is still up in the air, right?
00:40:46.000But if the president does what he has pledged to do and applies pressure to all of the erswhile Arab allies and Muslim allies of Hamas, then Hamas will have very few choices left.
00:40:56.000Again, there have been ongoing firefights over the course of the last few days inside the Gaza Strip between Hamas and other tribes attempting to gain control.
00:41:06.000Several dozen people have been killed already by Hamas.
00:41:11.000But the president said that he intends to ensure that the commitments that he made and that the international community made are kept, and that Hamas is disarmed and Gaza demilitarized.
00:41:23.000You know, some people say 3,000 years, some people say 500 years, whatever it is.
00:41:32.000And in an unprecedented achievement, virtually the entire region has endorsed the plan that Gaza will be immediately demilitarized, that Hamas will be disarmed, and Israel's security will no longer be threatened in any way, shape or form.
00:41:57.000And with that done, the president also talked about what he hoped would come next, and that was a golden age, a golden age for Israel, golden age in the Middle East, peace breaking out all over.
00:42:08.000The president of the United States got it done in his first term with Morocco, with UAE, with Bahrain.
00:42:15.000And the president intends to now expand that out to include places like Syria, like Saudi Arabia, like Indonesia.
00:42:21.000They also convey my tremendous appreciation for all of the nations of the Arab and Muslim world that came together to press Hamas to set the hostages free.
00:43:20.000Perhaps the funniest moment of the speech came when the president called on President Isaac Herzog, Bougie Herzog of Israel to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, so So Netanyahu, of course, has been under indictment for a couple of what can best be described as ticky tack offenses if they occurred.
00:43:41.000It's a little complex to get into right now.
00:43:43.000Suffice it to say the lawfare has been unleashed on Netanyahu in much the same way that it was unleashed on President Trump.
00:43:49.000Isaac Kurzak doesn't have the unilateral capacity to pardon Bibi Netanyahu.
00:43:53.000He has to go through some sort of committee, is apparently the way that it works over here in Israel.
00:43:58.000But President Trump, in front of everybody, in front of the Knesset, in front of everyone, called on Herzog to try to pardon Netanyahu.
00:44:05.000Because he says, listen, you have right here a war leader, a highly successful war leader, and you're going to go after him because he supposedly took some champagne and cigars or something.
00:44:44.000By the way, there was not in the speech as you probably know.
00:44:48.000But I happen to like this gentleman right over here, and it just seems to make so much sense.
00:44:53.000You know, whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents.
00:45:00.000This has been one of the greatest wartime presidents.
00:45:04.000And cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that.
00:45:11.000And finally, the president ended by saying that what would come next was something bigger, better, and stronger, a bigger, better, and stronger Israel.
00:45:19.000Obviously, Israelis are grateful to him.
00:45:21.000Civilization should be grateful to the presidents of the United States, because let's be real about this entire conflict.
00:45:25.000This conflict has been between a death cult in Hamas and its supporters in the Gaza Strip, in Judea and Samaria, yes in Qatar, yes in Iran, yes in Syria, yes in Lebanon, and a Western civilized country attempting to fight for its own existence and preservation.
00:45:43.000The President says listen, everybody who has gone to war with Israel has lost.
00:45:47.000Everybody who's gone to war with the Trump administration has ended up worse for the where.
00:45:53.000And so what comes next is a bigger, better, stronger Israel, and as soon as Israel's opponents recognize that and seek to make peace, then you will get a burgeoning, bustling region that is headed for peace and growth.
00:46:04.000Here is the president ending his speech.
00:46:35.000The President of the United States flew directly from Israel to Sharon al Sheikh in Egypt to meet with a bunch of foreign leaders.
00:46:42.000Prime Minister Netanyahu was going to go to it, but it turns out that it's a Jewish holiday, which again is starting like very, very shortly, so I'm gonna be running out of here pretty quickly, actually.
00:46:51.000Um but the the president of the United States will be headed over there to try and negotiate what comes next in the Gaza Strip.
00:46:58.000Over the weekend, he was on Air Force One, and he said, you know, right now Gaza's demolition site, but now there's a chance it's something better.
00:47:06.000If the ceasefire does hold, how long until we get to the part of the 20 point peace plan where developers can go in and make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East.
00:47:17.000Well, I don't know about the Riviera for a while, because you take a look at what you have, you have to get people taken care of first.
00:47:37.000Almost the entire site is so you you have to you have to get rid of what you have there.
00:47:42.000You have structures that are very dangerous, they're falling down if they haven't fallen, they're going to fall down of their own volition.
00:47:49.000So uh that process, Peter, is gonna start pretty much immediately.
00:48:20.000All you can say, if it normalizes, that would be fantastic.
00:48:25.000And what does that mean for the United States?
00:48:26.000Well, the vice presidents of the United States on meet the press with Kristen Welker, and he said the goal here is not for the United States to have boots on the ground in Israel or Gaza.
00:48:44.000So we have people in that region of the world who are gonna monitor parts of this peace proposal, but the president is not planning to put boots on the ground in Israel.
00:49:00.000He he he is not planning to put two boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel.
00:49:03.000We do have or we're gonna have central command troops that are already there that are gonna monitor this peace proposal.
00:49:09.000We've actually had, and this is one of the great successes of the president's diplomacy from Indonesia uh to the to the Gulf Arab states.
00:49:16.000We've had a number of Muslim majority countries offer to step up and have them put troops on the ground to secure Gaza.
00:49:23.000It's not gonna be necessary uh for American troops to be in Gaza.
00:49:27.000So it's rare to say this, But it is a time of hope in the Middle East.
00:49:31.000It is a time of hope because the President of the United States did something transformative.
00:49:35.000He did something different, something new, and something truly miraculous.
00:49:40.000He thought realistically about the problem and then solved it.
00:49:43.000He provided aid to an American ally so they could actually win a war.
00:49:47.000He applied pressure in all the right places.
00:49:49.000He ensured that Israel could achieve its war aims, and also that other countries would understand that if that happened, it was not only not a danger to them, it was a possibility for the future.
00:49:59.000There's a reason that Israel is in love with President Trump.
00:50:03.000Israel believes many of the same things about President Trump.
00:50:06.000The MAGA supporters in the United States believe about President Trump, that he is a person trying to help people, that he is a person who understands the world realistically.
00:50:14.000It's a triumph for Trump, no question about it.
00:50:17.000We'll just have to see how far that triumph extends as we move forward into what I think everyone can hope and pray is a brighter future for the region.
00:50:24.000Alrighty, folks, we've reached the end of the show.
00:50:26.000We will be back here actually Thursday with much more.
00:50:28.000As I said, it's a Jewish holiday for the next couple of days.
00:50:30.000There will be content on the feed, so look out for it.