The Ben Shapiro Show - TRIUMPH: Trump Frees Hostages, ELECTRIFIES Knesset

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it's been an absolutely extraordinary weekend here in Israel.

00:00:04.000 I came here to do the holidays with my family over here.

00:00:07.000 There are a lot of days that I've been taking off as you may have noticed.

00:00:09.000 Those are the Jewish holidays.

00:00:10.000 But while we are here, obviously, peace has now broken out.

00:00:13.000 A 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.

00:00:27.000 And this is a near miraculous move by the President of the United States.

00:00:31.000 He was able to mobilize the entire world, including the Arab world, to put pressure on Hamas to release these 20 live hostages.

00:00:38.000 And it's an extraordinary thing.

00:00:39.000 I mean, truly, uh, unless you spend time over in Israel, you you can't really understand the intensity of the feeling around the hostages.

00:00:46.000 I think that most other countries look at this sort of situation.

00:00:48.000 They say, okay, you have a terrorist group that took hostages.

00:00:51.000 Are 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?

00:00:59.000 Are you really willing to sacrifice legitimately hundreds of soldiers to death and wounding in order to protect hostages and try to save those hostages?

00:01:07.000 What are you willing to do?

00:01:08.000 And the answer in Israel is yes.

00:01:10.000 That is a thing that Israel has been willing to do. 0.91

00:01:12.000 And this has been the scimitar hanging over the head of the Israelis since the very beginning of the war.

00:01:17.000 Israel has had to stop and start the war half a dozen times.

00:01:20.000 Israel has had to take measures that no sane country would have to take in order to try and ensure the safety of its hostages.

00:01:26.000 Israel has had to move slowly and meticulously and risk the hatred of the world in order for those hostages to get out. 0.82

00:01:33.000 And 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.

00:01:47.000 And they were able to do that without allowing Hamas to fully reconstitute in the Gaza Strip.

00:01:51.000 Israel is still present. 0.87

00:01:52.000 The IDF is still present in some 53% of the Gaza Strip.

00:01:56.000 Right 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.

00:02:05.000 And 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.

00:02:14.000 We don't know the answer to that yet.

00:02:15.000 What 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. 0.82

00:02:28.000 Well, Team Trump was on the ground over the weekend.

00:02:32.000 Jared 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.

00:02:42.000 They 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.

00:02:51.000 Now, 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.

00:03:01.000 Some of it was political.

00:03:02.000 There are some members of the hostage forum who are just opposed to the current prime minister of the state of Israel.

00:03:07.000 But whatever the reason, the unbridled joy felt by all Israelis at the return of the hostages, it's overwhelming.

00:03:14.000 And 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.

00:03:20.000 I can say that in my synagogue in Florida, at that synagogue, we say a special prayer for the Chatu theme.

00:03:26.000 That's the Hebrew word for the hostages.

00:03:28.000 We've been doing it every single day since the beginning of the war.

00:03:31.000 That is a reality.

00:03:32.000 It's why you see all these yellow ribbons everywhere.

00:03:35.000 Well, Jared Kushner over the weekend went and visited Hostage Square and thanked Steve Whitkoff and President Trump while the crowd went nuts.

00:03:42.000 The thing to understand is that in Israel, the Trump administration has a 197% approval rating.

00:03:48.000 There is no one in Israel, with very rare exceptions, typically from the radical Arab parties that does not love President Trump.

00:03:56.000 Truly.

00:03:57.000 It's an astonishing thing.

00:03:58.000 I happen to be in the Knesset for President Trump's speech.

00:04:01.000 That is why the show is coming out late today.

00:04:04.000 I was there.

00:04:04.000 And let me tell you, the unbridled, overwhelming love that Israelis have for Donald J. Trump, it's extraordinary.

00:04:10.000 Truly extraordinary.

00:04:12.000 And there had to have been 50 standing ovations for President Trump.

00:04:16.000 Things he said and just him by name in the Knesset in the Israeli parliament today.

00:04:20.000 I came straight from there to here.

00:04:22.000 I'm recording about half an hour after the president of the United States finished his speech.

00:04:27.000 And the love that President Trump gets from every area of the political spectrum is truly unbelievable.

00:04:34.000 There are some far leftists in Israel who don't like President Trump, even they today love President Trump.

00:04:39.000 That is the reality.

00:04:40.000 So here was Jared Kushner at Hostage Square, thanking Steve Woodkoff and Trump.

00:04:43.000 Listen to the crowd going nuts.

00:04:45.000 And 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.

00:04:59.000 And when things got tough and we ran into brick walls, every time that happened, we just said, let's make a new plan.

00:05:06.000 Let's try again.

00:05:07.000 And that's what being partners with Steve was like.

00:05:16.000 And 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.

00:05:33.000 Thank you.

00:05:38.000 Meanwhile, Jared also said that he couldn't be more proud to support Israel.

00:05:42.000 Of 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.

00:06:02.000 Here was Kushner talking about his support for Israel.

00:06:05.000 I 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.

00:06:21.000 Instead of replicating the barbarism of the enemy, you chose to be exceptional.

00:06:31.000 You chose to stand for the values that you stand for.

00:06:35.000 And 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.

00:06:50.000 Meanwhile, Ivanka, who of course is Jared's wife, and she's a convert to Judaism.

00:06:56.000 She stopped by Hostage Square, where she said that she was praying that this week would be one of healing.

00:07:02.000 And so far, so good.

00:07:03.000 I mean, I have to say, again, the emotion here is just overwhelming.

00:07:07.000 This 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.

00:07:17.000 When we read the five books of Moses, we separate it out week by week.

00:07:19.000 So every year we go through the entire five books of Moses.

00:07:22.000 Simchat Torah is where we actually finish reading it.

00:07:27.000 Simchat Torah.

00:07:28.000 That October 7th happened.

00:07:30.000 The reason I say that is because by the Israeli calendar, by the Hebrew calendar, Simchat Torah was the date of October 7th, 2023.

00:07:38.000 This year it happens to be the evening of October 13th and October 14th.

00:07:42.000 Okay, but the unremitting giddiness that is overwhelming the country is extraordinary.

00:07:49.000 Here was Ivanka. 0.99

00:07:52.000 The 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.

00:08:06.000 applause 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

00:08:29.000 One 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.

00:08:44.000 Now, to understand what it means that the hostages were released.

00:08:48.000 And again, it's not just that the hostages were released.

00:08:50.000 It's that Israel maintains a forward military posture with regard to Hamas.

00:08:54.000 It's that Israel has defenestrated Hamas.

00:08:57.000 I mean, totally wiped out their offensive capacity to Do war, at least for the moment.

00:09:01.000 They may try to reconstitute, and that will require further Israeli action or international action.

00:09:05.000 But 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.

00:09:19.000 But Israel was threatened on its northern border by Hezbollah, a massively powerful terrorist group, funded by Iran, run out of Lebanon by Hassan Nasrallah.

00:09:28.000 Syria was an ally with Hezbollah.

00:09:31.000 Iran was threatening nuclear development.

00:09:34.000 There's terrorism brewing in Judea and Samaria, the so-called West Bank.

00:09:38.000 And 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.

00:09:47.000 They killed Hassan Nasrallah and destroyed Hezbollah's rocket capacity with extraordinarily creative military action, including that famous beeper attack. 0.56

00:09:56.000 They hit Hezbollah so hard that the Assad regime fell thanks to the predations of Turkey, pushing HTS into power in Syria. 0.95

00:10:04.000 And 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.

00:10:21.000 I mean, that's an astonishing turnabout.

00:10:23.000 And none of that.

00:10:25.000 Without that happening, the hostages don't come out.

00:10:27.000 Because Hamas just would have had that support level.

00:10:30.000 By 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. 0.51

00:10:41.000 Alrighty, folks, more on a historic day and time in Israel and in the Middle East more broadly first.

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00:13:12.000 Whatever the rationale, the hostages coming home is an extraordinary historic moment.

00:13:17.000 Truly a historic moment.

00:13:18.000 Here's what it looked like as the hostages drove by and were welcomed home by thousands of Israelis back into their homeland.

00:13:25.000 Thank you.

00:14:32.000 We are coming soon!

00:14:34.000 Andy! 0.86

00:14:35.000 Ali!

00:14:36.000 Meanwhile, in Hostage Square, which is where Jared and Ivanka and Steve Woodkoff had been speaking over the weekend.

00:14:42.000 Cheers erupted as it was announced that the hostages had been safely returned to Israeli forces.

00:14:47.000 By the way, the hostages, they look gaunt.

00:14:50.000 They looked they're they're alive.

00:14:52.000 Many of them are with their family, some of them have had to go to hospitals for recovery periods.

00:14:56.000 But they were starved.

00:14:58.000 I mean, the hostages were starved.

00:14:59.000 We know this because we've seen the pictures of them.

00:15:02.000 One picture in particular of Eviatar David.

00:15:05.000 He looks like a Holocaust victim. 0.95

00:15:10.000 Looking gaunt as death.

00:15:13.000 He was released.

00:15:14.000 Okay, here is what it looked like, however, in hostage square in Tel Aviv, when people found out that the Israeli hostages were coming home.

00:15:22.000 Thank you.

00:15:32.000 Thank you.

00:15:34.000 Meanwhile, President Trump gets on Air Force One and comes to the Middle East.

00:15:38.000 He 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.

00:15:49.000 Remember, when President Trump took office in the first place, Iran was on the rise. 0.98

00:15:53.000 Its terror proxies were threatening pretty much every American allied country in the region, including places like UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

00:16:01.000 And President Trump has now transformed the region into a place where peace seems to be on the rise.

00:16:07.000 Not 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.

00:16:21.000 Now it looks as though peace could be on the way.

00:16:24.000 Here 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.

00:16:35.000 You know, I'm being a little cute.

00:16:39.000 I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven, okay?

00:16:42.000 I think I'm not maybe heaven bound.

00:16:46.000 I may be in heaven right now as we fly an Air Force One.

00:16:49.000 I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make heaven.

00:16:51.000 But I've made life a lot better for a lot of people.

00:16:54.000 And truly it's kind of an amazingly introspective idea there.

00:16:58.000 President Trump saying that he doesn't think he's heaven bound, but he's done a lot of good things for a lot of people.

00:17:02.000 That's pretty moving, honestly.

00:17:06.000 It's rare that I say anything that President Trump says is like actually moving.

00:17:10.000 But I think that's an actually moving sentiment.

00:17:12.000 And President Trump likes to think of himself as somebody who does good for people.

00:17:17.000 You know, with all of the craziness and the truth socialing and the riffing and the comedy.

00:17:22.000 That in the end, he wants to be thought of as somebody who did good for people.

00:17:26.000 And that's why I think he finds what he's been able to accomplish in the Middle East so moving himself.

00:17:31.000 Meanwhile, the Israelis thanked President Trump as he deserved to be thanked.

00:17:35.000 They put out a gigantic display on the beach in Tel Aviv.

00:17:39.000 So President Trump would see it as Air Force One was flying into the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

00:17:44.000 In fact, President Trump's Air Force One actually detoured past the window of a Twitter poster named Sal Sadka.

00:17:53.000 In a low altitude flyby over that Tel Aviv beachfront.

00:17:56.000 that look like from the ground.

00:17:57.000 Thank you.

00:18:20.000 Then, of course, Air Force One landed in Israel, and here is the tape of that.

00:18:47.000 So 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.

00:19:01.000 And the president then offers a ride to Netanyahu in his car in the beast over to the Knesset.

00:19:07.000 So it's about a 45-minute drive from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

00:19:10.000 The roads are at least partially shut down to allow for that to happen.

00:19:14.000 Now, in the meantime, I got an invite from the ambassador, Huckabee.

00:19:20.000 Thank you very much for that, because it's an amazing, amazing experience, to actually watch this historic moment.

00:19:24.000 Probably the most historic moment in Israeli history since maybe the founding in 1948.

00:19:31.000 Other contenders might be the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967.

00:19:34.000 But 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.

00:19:50.000 So I had the opportunity to actually get there and walk around a fair bit.

00:19:55.000 Again, the mood was extraordinary.

00:19:57.000 A lot of red hats.

00:19:58.000 There 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.

00:20:05.000 President Trump didn't go directly into the Knesset Chamber, the parliamentary chamber, which pulled maybe seven, eight hundred people.

00:20:12.000 Instead, he actually met with the Prime Minister and the President of Israel and some of the hostage families.

00:20:20.000 And that went for a while.

00:20:22.000 And then the president signed a message to the Knesset in Israel.

00:20:25.000 The message that he signing here is this is my great honor, a great and beautiful day, a new beginning.

00:20:29.000 And that's clearly how President Trump is thinking about this as a new beginning.

00:20:32.000 Now, meanwhile, in the chamber, I have to say again, the the sort of excitement was off the charts.

00:20:39.000 Truly off the charts.

00:20:40.000 I see much of the cabinet came.

00:20:42.000 Secretary Rubio was there.

00:20:44.000 Secretary Hegseth was there.

00:20:45.000 Stephen Miller came as well.

00:20:47.000 Jared Kushner and Ivanka were there.

00:20:48.000 Steve Whitcoff was there.

00:20:50.000 General Raisin Kane, Dan Raising Cain was there as well.

00:20:54.000 And 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.

00:21:04.000 And 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.

00:21:16.000 Here he was receiving a standing ovation.

00:21:18.000 And I see Donald J. Trump.

00:21:21.000 Thank you.

00:21:51.000 Now, again, I will say that I have a lot of friends in the room.

00:22:04.000 People's hands were sore from clapping.

00:22:05.000 I mean, it was it was that enthusiastic.

00:22:07.000 It was that loud in the room.

00:22:08.000 It was that raucous in the room.

00:22:10.000 Amir Ohana praised President Trump as a giant of Jewish history ahead of his address, President Trump's address.

00:22:17.000 And President Trump took all of this in uh extremely good humor.

00:22:22.000 Here was Amir Ohana, the speaker of the Knesset praising President Trump.

00:22:26.000 Mr. President.

00:22:28.000 You stand before the people of Israel not as another American president, but as a giant of Jewish history.

00:22:36.000 One for whom we must look back two and a half millennia into the mists of time to find a parallel relationship.

00:22:46.000 Cyrus the Great.

00:22:48.000 You, President Donald J. Trump, are a colossus who will be enshrined in the pantheon of history.

00:22:57.000 Thousands of years from now, Mr. President, the Jewish people will remember you.

00:23:02.000 We are a nation that remembers.

00:23:06.000 So 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.

00:23:15.000 There are a lot of people on the left who do not like him very much.

00:23:18.000 There are some people who have been, you know, extraordinarily hateful toward him and his family, for sure.

00:23:23.000 He has taken an enormous number of slings and arrows, has the Prime Minister over the course of the last couple of years.

00:23:28.000 Politics is a rough game for sure.

00:23:30.000 But the overwhelming feeling in the room, and I think in general, is gratitude for the leadership that he has displayed during the war.

00:23:39.000 Now, again, that's not going to you you couldn't say that about any political leader in any democratic country, that everyone is grateful.

00:23:45.000 Everybody is happy.

00:23:46.000 But 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.

00:24:15.000 That's an extraordinary performance.

00:24:17.000 Here was the Knesset's response when Amir Ohana praised the Prime Minister, President Trump also stood up and uh and gave BB innovation.

00:24:28.000 Thank you very much for the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the United States.

00:24:35.000 Thank you.

00:25:05.000 Thank you.

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00:27:27.000 So I think that this entire event, just so folks know, the entire event was scheduled to run an hour, an hour and a half.

00:27:33.000 Basically, the idea was going to be that the president landed at Bengorian Airport at maybe 9 20 a.m.

00:27:39.000 Israel time, did a quick event on the tarmac, and then made his way to the Knesset.

00:27:44.000 He ended up getting to the Knesset probably around 11 a.m.

00:27:46.000 He was supposed to originally speak around 11 a.m.

00:27:49.000 Instead, because of the meeting with the hostages and everything, he probably didn't enter the room until 12 30.

00:27:54.000 Then the speaker of the Knesset, Amir Ohana, gave quite a beautiful speech.

00:27:58.000 Actually, 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.

00:28:08.000 He actually took his hostage pin off because all the live hostages were back in Israel.

00:28:12.000 Here's what that looked like.

00:28:14.000 And I will do something spontaneous, and I will remove the pin of that I received from Tvi Kamor.

00:28:23.000 I am removing it because a minute ago I spoke to Tsvikimar brother and they are celebrating this unification.

00:28:32.000 Thank you so much, President Trump.

00:28:34.000 Thank you so much, President Trump.

00:28:40.000 That was a highly moving moment, obviously.

00:28:42.000 And then he introduced Prime Minister Netanyahu, who got up to speak.

00:28:47.000 And 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.

00:28:58.000 But it's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.

00:29:02.000 Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.

00:29:08.000 Thank you.

00:29:39.000 Netanyahu also, of course, didn't just praise Trump's decision-making acumen with regard to the hostage deal.

00:29:46.000 He 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.

00:29:55.000 Here was Prime Minister Netanyahu.

00:29:57.000 Thank you for supporting Operation Rising Line and for your bold decision to launch Operation Midnight Hammer.

00:30:06.000 Boy, is that...

00:30:07.000 You gotta hear this.

00:30:15.000 This is the most fitting name ever named for a military operation because a little after midnight you really hammered them.

00:30:26.000 Oh, yeah.

00:30:31.000 My friends, this is only a partial list.

00:30:35.000 But it's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.

00:30:39.000 Donald Trump is the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.

00:30:48.000 After Netanyahu spoke, then, because it was a session of parliament, they had to let the opposition leader speak.

00:30:53.000 That was Yahir Lapid.

00:30:54.000 Yayir Lapid is the head of his own party there and the leader of the opposition bloc.

00:30:59.000 Lapid gave uh what I thought was actually quite a gracious and and wonderful speech.

00:31:04.000 He talked about how the attempt by the world to isolate Israel by telling lies about it, how that was wrong.

00:31:12.000 He also, of course, had words of extraordinarily warm praise for President Trump.

00:31:17.000 Here's a little bit of what he had to say.

00:31:19.000 From 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.

00:31:33.000 I do not represent the government as you know.

00:31:35.000 I am the leader of the opposition.

00:31:38.000 And I tell you, then you were deceived.

00:31:44.000 You were deceived propaganda experts, funded by terror money, manipulated you.

00:31:50.000 Now that the war is stopped, you have time and a chance to go and learn the facts.

00:31:55.000 The truth is there was no genocide.

00:32:00.000 No intentional starvation.

00:32:03.000 And then it was time for President Trump to speak.

00:32:06.000 And again, when he got up, the place about exploded.

00:32:08.000 I mean, it just went up.

00:32:10.000 I mean, the energy in the room was so high.

00:32:15.000 The 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.

00:32:22.000 The bottom floor is all the members of the Israeli parliament.

00:32:25.000 Up and to the president's right would have been members of the press for the most part.

00:32:29.000 Ahead of him were members of the cabinet, cabinet officials and friends of the president.

00:32:34.000 And 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.

00:32:44.000 I was on that left section as sort of a friend of the embassy.

00:32:47.000 And then behind that, there's glass and there are many, many more guests there, including a whole block of hostage families.

00:32:53.000 The president of the United States gets up to speak.

00:32:55.000 The place comes unglued.

00:32:58.000 Amazing, amazing stuff.

00:33:00.000 And here's President Trump announcing that the hostages are indeed back.

00:33:03.000 Deeply, 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.

00:33:15.000 This 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.

00:33:23.000 Here is the president announcing that the hostages are back.

00:33:27.000 After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families, and it is glorious.

00:33:40.000 Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time.

00:33:50.000 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 land that is finally at peace, a land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity.

00:34:11.000 And 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.

00:34:31.000 There were actual blessings that were said by Jews.

00:34:33.000 There was a point at which the speaker of the Knesset actually put on a yarmulke.

00:34:36.000 He doesn't normally wear yamaka, he put on yamaka in order to say a blessing over the presence of Donald J. Trump.

00:34:43.000 And a blessing was said.

00:34:46.000 Uh 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.

00:34:56.000 And that was said in the parliament as well.

00:34:57.000 And then the president returned the favor by giving his deepest thanks to the Almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

00:35:05.000 Mr. Speaker, esteemed members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel.

00:35:13.000 We 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.

00:35:32.000 Alrighty, more coming up in just a moment.

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00:37:35.000 Now there was one fraught moment.

00:37:37.000 This happened maybe 15 or 20 minutes into the president's speech.

00:37:40.000 And the president was riffing, man.

00:37:42.000 He was going.

00:37:42.000 And the president must have spoken for about an hour.

00:37:46.000 And he he did, you know, some of his favorite hits.

00:37:48.000 He talked about General Raising Cain and ISIS.

00:37:50.000 He talked about Steve Woodcoff's negotiations with Russia.

00:37:53.000 He made fun of the of Joe Biden and and uh and of Kamala Harris and all the rest.

00:37:57.000 Barack Obama came in for some licks.

00:37:59.000 But the most fraught moment happened when two members of the Israeli parliament, okay.

00:38:04.000 This is why when people say Israel's an apartheid state, it's ridiculous.

00:38:07.000 Two members of the Israeli parliament, like sitting members of the Israeli Knesset are from the Arab parties.

00:38:13.000 There are two Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset.

00:38:15.000 One is considered slightly more moderate than the other, but neither is particularly moderate.

00:38:18.000 And 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.

00:38:27.000 And so they knew this.

00:38:28.000 And 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.

00:38:37.000 And President Trump's response was classic Trump.

00:38:42.000 Please expel this message.

00:38:49.000 Knesset member please.

00:38:51.000 Expel this Knesset member.

00:38:58.000 Knesset member Cassim.

00:39:00.000 Please expel him immediately.

00:39:21.000 Sorry for that, Mr. President.

00:39:23.000 I'm that was very efficient.

00:39:32.000 Now again, many of the clips that I'm gonna play here are are some of President Trump's more serious efforts here.

00:39:38.000 The reality is that the speech was hilarious.

00:39:40.000 It was so funny.

00:39:41.000 I mean, truly, truly, truly funny.

00:39:43.000 There 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.

00:39:53.000 President Trump said that there are two messages that America understands when it comes to Israel.

00:40:00.000 Never forget and never again.

00:40:02.000 And 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.

00:40:16.000 Never forget and never again.

00:40:19.000 The 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.

00:40:42.000 How that happens is still up in the air, right?

00:40:44.000 Phase one has been solved.

00:40:46.000 But 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. 0.60

00:40:56.000 Again, 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.

00:41:06.000 Several dozen people have been killed already by Hamas.

00:41:09.000 So this is gonna be an effort.

00:41:11.000 But 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.

00:41:23.000 You know, some people say 3,000 years, some people say 500 years, whatever it is.

00:41:28.000 It's uh the granddaddy of them all.

00:41:32.000 And 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.

00:41:57.000 And 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.

00:42:07.000 And that is the hope.

00:42:08.000 The president of the United States got it done in his first term with Morocco, with UAE, with Bahrain.

00:42:15.000 And the president intends to now expand that out to include places like Syria, like Saudi Arabia, like Indonesia.

00:42:21.000 They 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.

00:42:35.000 And to send them home.

00:42:36.000 We had a lot of help.

00:42:37.000 We had a lot of help from a lot of people that you wouldn't suspect.

00:42:40.000 And I want to thank them very much for that.

00:42:43.000 It's an incredible triumph for Israel and the world to have all of these nations working together as partners in peace.

00:42:52.000 And it's pretty unusual for you to see that, but it it happened in this case.

00:42:56.000 This was a very unusual point in time.

00:42:59.000 A brilliant point in time.

00:43:02.000 Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change and change very much for the better.

00:43:11.000 Like the USA right now, it will be the golden age of Israel and the golden age of the Middle East. 0.98

00:43:19.000 It's going to work together.

00:43:20.000 Perhaps 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.

00:43:41.000 It's a little complex to get into right now.

00:43:43.000 Suffice it to say the lawfare has been unleashed on Netanyahu in much the same way that it was unleashed on President Trump.

00:43:49.000 Isaac Kurzak doesn't have the unilateral capacity to pardon Bibi Netanyahu.

00:43:53.000 He has to go through some sort of committee, is apparently the way that it works over here in Israel.

00:43:58.000 But President Trump, in front of everybody, in front of the Knesset, in front of everyone, called on Herzog to try to pardon Netanyahu.

00:44:05.000 Because 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.

00:44:14.000 Here's the president.

00:44:15.000 Again, there are many, many applause lines.

00:44:17.000 was one of the bigger ones.

00:44:19.000 And this man is a good man right here.

00:44:22.000 These two men are good men right here.

00:44:24.000 Hey, I have an idea.

00:44:32.000 Mr. President, why don't you give him a pardon?

00:44:38.000 Give him a pardon.

00:44:44.000 By the way, there was not in the speech as you probably know.

00:44:48.000 But I happen to like this gentleman right over here, and it just seems to make so much sense.

00:44:53.000 You know, whether we like it or not, this has been one of the greatest wartime presidents.

00:45:00.000 This has been one of the greatest wartime presidents.

00:45:04.000 And cigars and champagne, who the hell cares about that.

00:45:11.000 And finally, the president ended by saying that what would come next was something bigger, better, and stronger, a bigger, better, and stronger Israel.

00:45:19.000 Obviously, Israelis are grateful to him.

00:45:21.000 Civilization should be grateful to the presidents of the United States, because let's be real about this entire conflict.

00:45:25.000 This 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.

00:45:43.000 The President says listen, everybody who has gone to war with Israel has lost.

00:45:47.000 Everybody who's gone to war with the Trump administration has ended up worse for the where.

00:45:53.000 And 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.

00:46:04.000 Here is the president ending his speech.

00:46:06.000 I love Israel.

00:46:07.000 I'm with you all the way.

00:46:09.000 You will be bigger, better, stronger, and more loving than ever before.

00:46:16.000 Thank you very much.

00:46:17.000 God bless you.

00:46:18.000 God bless the United States of America and God bless the Middle East. 0.86

00:46:23.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:46:25.000 Good luck.

00:46:26.000 Thank you very much.

00:46:27.000 Thank you.

00:46:32.000 So again, what does this mean in practical terms?

00:46:34.000 Well, it's not all over.

00:46:35.000 The President of the United States flew directly from Israel to Sharon al Sheikh in Egypt to meet with a bunch of foreign leaders.

00:46:42.000 Prime 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. 0.91

00:46:51.000 Um but the the president of the United States will be headed over there to try and negotiate what comes next in the Gaza Strip.

00:46:58.000 Over 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. 0.99

00:47:06.000 If 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. 0.53

00:47:17.000 Well, 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.

00:47:23.000 But uh it's gonna start really essentially immediately.

00:47:26.000 I mean, they're gonna have to start by removing a lot of the structures that you see that are down to the ground.

00:47:33.000 I mean, it's a very it's blasted.

00:47:35.000 This is like a demolition site.

00:47:37.000 Almost the entire site is so you you have to you have to get rid of what you have there.

00:47:42.000 You 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.

00:47:49.000 So uh that process, Peter, is gonna start pretty much immediately.

00:47:54.000 Like a year from now, in your view.

00:47:56.000 A year, that's very quick.

00:47:57.000 But over the years it'll look very good.

00:47:59.000 It'll be uh it's got the first chance it's had in centuries of being peaceful.

00:48:04.000 It's always been a very, very uh strange area.

00:48:09.000 It's always been loaded up with problems, religious problems, uh problems like no other place probably in the world.

00:48:17.000 And I think it's gonna now normalize.

00:48:20.000 All you can say, if it normalizes, that would be fantastic.

00:48:25.000 And what does that mean for the United States?

00:48:26.000 Well, 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.

00:48:34.000 And let's be real about this.

00:48:35.000 Israel does not want American boots on the ground in Israel or Gaza.

00:48:39.000 Safety has to be secured, but not at the cost of American boots on the ground.

00:48:42.000 Here was the vice president.

00:48:44.000 So 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.

00:48:53.000 What about Gaza?

00:48:54.000 Will US troops ever be sent into Gaza?

00:48:57.000 Just yes or no.

00:48:58.000 That's what I mean, Kristen.

00:49:00.000 He he he is not planning to put two boots on the ground in Gaza or Israel.

00:49:03.000 We do have or we're gonna have central command troops that are already there that are gonna monitor this peace proposal.

00:49:09.000 We'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.

00:49:16.000 We've had a number of Muslim majority countries offer to step up and have them put troops on the ground to secure Gaza.

00:49:23.000 It's not gonna be necessary uh for American troops to be in Gaza.

00:49:27.000 So it's rare to say this, But it is a time of hope in the Middle East.

00:49:31.000 It is a time of hope because the President of the United States did something transformative.

00:49:35.000 He did something different, something new, and something truly miraculous.

00:49:40.000 He thought realistically about the problem and then solved it.

00:49:43.000 He provided aid to an American ally so they could actually win a war.

00:49:47.000 He applied pressure in all the right places.

00:49:49.000 He 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.

00:49:59.000 There's a reason that Israel is in love with President Trump.

00:50:03.000 Israel believes many of the same things about President Trump.

00:50:06.000 The 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.

00:50:14.000 It's a triumph for Trump, no question about it.

00:50:17.000 We'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.

00:50:24.000 Alrighty, folks, we've reached the end of the show.

00:50:26.000 We will be back here actually Thursday with much more.

00:50:28.000 As I said, it's a Jewish holiday for the next couple of days.

00:50:30.000 There will be content on the feed, so look out for it.

00:50:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 13, 2025

TRIUMPH: Trump Frees Hostages, ELECTRIFIES Knesset

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