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Yair Lapid
Things together. Come and talk to us. Mr. President, you are the one who can make it happen as you did with the historic Abraham Accords. Then, too, no one believed it was possible. Then, too, you imposed your vision on everyone. While others spoke of difficulties, you created opportunity. You can be the one to bring.
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Jake Novak
The welcome, everyone, to American Sunrise Early Edition. I'm Jake Novak. A very special night and morning of coverage here on Real America's Voice. We've been going at it for hours on this historic day. I call it Trump's triumph in the Holy Land. You can't call it anything else, considering the way that he has been received. President Trump is about to speak to the Knesset. That's the name for the Israeli Parliament right now. Speaking as the head of the Israeli opposition, Yair Lapid, a former news anchor in Israel, they got their orders mixed up. I think they wanted him to speak as soon as Prime Minister Netanyahu finished speaking, but they wanted President Trump to go on after that. But Lapid insisted on grabbing the mic. That's the way it goes in politics. But anyway, President Trump's speech, of course, highly anticipated. And by the way, this was supposed to happen about an hour and change ago, but President Trump insisted on meeting with the freed hostages. I buried the lead. All 20 living Israeli hostages have been returned safely to Israel and President Trump met with them. Not only did he meet with them, but he met with them for an extended period of time. They are the focus of this trip for the president as much as anything else. So we're going to go back to the live feed of Yair Lapid, the Israeli opposition leader, hopefully wrapping up his remarks and then they'll go straight to President Trump again. Thank you for joining us here. For all this coverage here on Real America's Voice, go back to the feed from the Knesset right now.
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Yair Lapid
I do not represent the government, as you know. I am the leader of the opposition. And I tell you then, you were deceived. You were deceived. Propaganda experts funded by terror money manipulated you. Now that the war has stopped, you have time and a chance to go and learn the facts. The truth is there was no genocide, no intentional starvation. The truth is there was an army and a country fighting in the most complicated conditions imaginable against terrorists who send their own children to die for follow up, who used their own children as human shields. The truth is that the democratic state was attacked by a fanatical terrorist organization. 1200 people were killed in one day. Women were raped. Babies were burned. Alive and all that on all the why they played with your minds, selling you the absurd idea that supporting Islamic terror is somehow liberal value. There is good and evil in this world. When you stand with Hamas, you stand with evil. When you stand with Hezbollah, you stand with evil. When you stand with the Iranian regime, you stand with evil. When you stand with Israel, you stand on the side of justice. Last week, last week I attended the 7 October memorial ceremony. An inspirational woman called Galit Dan spoke on stage. Galit had a daughter, Noia, a 13 year old girl who was autistic like my daughter. Anoya was full of light. She loved Harry Potter.
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Jake Novak
On that dark day again, you're watching the live coverage from the Israeli Knesset. That's their name for the Parliament in Israel. Yair Lapid, who's the leader of the opposition, is taking a long time to finish up his speech. That's the way it is sometimes when he knows the world is watching. But President Trump will be speaking in just a few moments to to the Knesset. And again, I want to remind everyone that the reason why this is happening at this hour instead of earlier in the day when people expected it, is because President Trump insisted on not only meeting the hostages for some kind of a photo op, but meeting and speaking with them extensively and to their families. That was really an important gesture. I think that was a really nice gesture. And so everything is sort of bleeding over. Usually the Trump administration does things kind of on time compared to other administrations. So that's the explanation there. Yair Lapid is of course saying some very good things, but he is the leader of the opposition and he's grabbing, I would say, an outsized amount of time. But I don't want to throw any negative light over what is an amazing day for Israel, for these hostages and their families, and for President Trump in the United States of America, asserting once again that not only is it the greatest power in the world, but it is the greatest power for justice in the world. While all the other nations of the world were rushing to recognize the non existent Palestinian terrorist state, while everyone else was falling for lie after lie about what's going on in the Middle east and in that region, President Trump stood for the truth, stood for the right thing and really very quickly remember, he hasn't even been president for 10 months yet in this second term of his. Got this war ended, got these hostages out. You really can't say enough about it. And I think Yahya Lapid is trying to say too much about it right now as he continues to Speak. But we'll go back to him now because I do believe he is wrapping up and President Trump will be speaking right after him. Thank you for joining us.
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Yair Lapid
The businessman in you, the deal maker who understands value. If there were one stock in the world I would invest in today, it is the State of Israel. If there were one nation that deserves unrestricted access to GPU chips, to AI and smart technologies, to American markets, to it is the State of Israel. Israel's future is intertwined with our eternal alliance, our strategic and moral covenant with our greatest friends, the United States of America. This war is over. We will always need to stay vigilant to guard against those who seek our destruction. But the State of Israel is about to reinvent itself. The challenges ahead demand not only strength, but a new vision. It's time to take a new path, to be a nation that is advanced and thriving and peace seeking. We have waited for this moment, for the end of the war, for the return of the hostages, for the chance to rechannel our grief and loss into the energy needed to rebuild our nation. Thanks to you, Mr. President. Thanks to our soldiers alliance, thanks to the millions of great Israeli patriots who filled the streets and the square and never, not for one moment, gave up on the hostages. Thanks to all of them, the strength within us can now rise, succeed and build for our future and for our children. Thank you very much. God bless the United States of America. I'm Israel Khay.
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Podcast Host
I would like to thank the head of the opposition, members of the Knesset, President of the United States of America, His Excellency, Donald J. Trump to address the Knesset. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. It's a great honor. Nice place. Very nice place. Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker, esteemed members of the Knesset and cherished citizens of Israel. 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. After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. And it is glorious. 28 more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time. 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. This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. It's the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I believe that so strongly this is the historic dawn of a new Middle East. I want to express my gratitude to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership did so much to make this momentous day possible. You know who I'm talking about. There's only one Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Please stand up. And he is not easy. I want to tell you. He's not the easiest guy to deal with, but that's what makes him great. That's what makes him great. Thank you very much, Bibi. Great job. And let me 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 and to send them home. We had a lot of help. We had a lot of help from a lot of people that you wouldn't suspect, and I want to thank them very much for that. It's an incredible triumph for Israel and the world to have all of these nations working together as partners in peace. And it's pretty unusual for you to see that, but it happened in this case. This was a very unusual point in time, a brilliant point in time. Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change and change very much for the better, like the USA right now. It will be the golden age of Israel and the golden age of the Middle East. It's going to work together. I'd like to thank several great American patriots for their invaluable help in getting something done that almost everyone thought was absolutely impossible. We were wasting our time. So many people said, you're just wasting your time, but we weren't because we had talented people working with us, and we had people that love your country, and frankly, people that love the region, they love the Middle East. I want to thank my friend, Steve Witkoff. You know, Steve was chosen by me. He never did this before, but I knew him as a few things. He was a great businessman, but I know a lot of great businessmen, to be honest with you. He had tremendous negotiating skills, but I know a lot of people that negotiate pretty well, although it is an art. But there are people that can negotiate pretty well. But most importantly with Steve, he's just a great guy. Everybody loved him. Everybody. I mean, I know some negotiators that are so good, but you Wouldn't have had peace in the Middle East. You'd be. Would be in World War Three right now with some of these guys. Everybody loves Steve and they respect him and they somehow can relate to him. I've known him for many years, and I've seen it over over and over again. Please expel this Knesset member. Please expel this Knesset member. Please. It. Please expel Knesset member Kasif out of the hall. Please expel him immediately. And I'm. That was very efficient. So back to Steve. He's. But I tell one story because he was so involved. And then we called in Jared. We called it. We need that brain on occasion. We got to get Jared in here. We got to get a certain group of people. But Steve started this all by himself. I call him Henry Kissinger, who doesn't leak. Okay? Henry is a big leaker. He leaked. Steve doesn't leak. Steve just wants to get the job done. He wants to do what's right. But I'll give you just a quick story because as you know, he's working on the war with Russia and Ukraine, a war that would have never happened if I were president. A shame. Seven thousand young soldiers a week are being killed. More than that this last week. It's a shame that it never happened. But it did happen, and we won the race. And I took over this horrible war that's been raging, and I thought it would be easily settled. I thought it was a hell of a lot easier than doing what we just did very successfully with Israel and a lot of other people. But this came first, and we'll get that one. But I set up a meeting for him to meet with President Putin, thinking it would be a 15 or a 20 minute meeting. Steve had no idea about Russia. I had no idea about Putin. Too much. Didn't know too much about politics. Wasn't that interested. He was really good at real estate, but he had that quality that I was looking for, and I didn't see it around in too many ways. And I set up the meeting with Putin. And I called. I said, is Steve finished yet? That was about a half an hour into the meeting. No, sir, he's not. He's still inside. This is in Moscow. I said, well, how's he doing? I don't know, sir. He's still inside. I called up an hour later. Let me speak to Steve, sir. He's still with Putin. He's with President Putin. I said, wow, it's a long meeting. One hour. I called up an hour later, he was still with Putin. Three hours later, he was still with Putin. Four hours later, he started to get the word that he was going to be coming out so soon. And in five hours, he came out. I said, what the hell were you talking about for five hours? And he says, just a lot of interesting things. We just. We're talking about a lot of interesting things, including what he went in there for. But you can't talk about it for five. You can talk about it for a certain period of time and you know what you're getting. But that's a talent. That's a talent where you can do that. Most people I'd send in, number one, they wouldn't be accepted. Number two, if they were, the meeting would last five minutes. And that's what happens with Steve. Everybody loves him. They love him on this side, they love him on the other side. And he really is. He's a great negotiator because he's a great guy. So thank you very much, Steve, very much. And let me also give a very special thanks to someone who truly loves Israel. In fact, loves it so much that my daughter converted. My daughter converted. I didn't know this was going to happen. And Ivanka is here. And Bibi, you do know this was not in the cards for me. You understand that? And she is so happy. And they are so happy. At least I think they're happy. If they're not, we have a big story, right? No, they have a great marriage and they're. They get along great. They're best friends. They have a very special relationship. But Jared has been so helpful. He really did something very special. He established the Abraham Accords with a group of very wonderful people. I like calling it the Avraham Accords because people that. Right, Abraham. It's so cool. It's so much sort of nicer, you know, the Abraham versus the Avraham. I just don't want to sound too sanctimonious when I do it, so, you know, I sort of split it up. This way, we keep everybody happy. But we have some very great talent, and they have no excuses for anything that's taken place because we had some unbelievably good people working on this. And then you're going to add a man named Marco Rubio, who is also here. That's right. And I have a prediction that Marco will go down, I mean this, as the greatest Secretary of State in the history of the United States. I believe that. I believe it. And he and I, you know, we really fought it out. You remember, he was tough he was nasty. Who the hell thought this was going to happen? Marco, Right? And now I'm saying he's going to go down as the greatest. He will. He was always. He was always smart and sharp, and people respect him. And then we have somebody who's young but an unbelievable leader. I saw it a long time ago, and he's turned out to be even better. Even better than we thought. Right, Susie? I think even better. And that's Pete Hegseth, who is our Secretary of War, formerly Secretary of Defense. And as you know, we decisively won World War I. We decisively won World War II decisively, and everything in between and everything before it. We won everything. And then they had the brilliant idea of changing the name from war. You know, it was War to Defense. And with that went a certain thinking, and we fought in a very politically correct way after that. We always had the strongest military, and now we have a stronger military than we've ever had before. Because in my first term, I've totally rebuilt the military, every aspect of it. But we have. If you think we settled eight wars in eight months, I'm now including this one, by the way, if that's okay. They may say, well, that was quick, because yesterday I was saying seven, but now I can say eight. The hostages are back. The hostages are back. It is a good feeling. Isn't that nice to say? You know, I just said the hassi first time I said the hostages are back. It sounds. It feels so good to say it. But when you settle eight wars in eight months, that means you don't like war. Everyone thought I was going to be brutal. In fact, I remember Hillary Clinton during a debate, she said, look at him. Look at him. He's going to go to war with everybody. And actually, she said, he's got a personality that's all about war. No, my personality actually is all about stopping wars. And it seems to work. It seems to work. But it also means this name change and our attitude that we're not going to go into a war, but if we do, we're going to win that war like nobody has ever won a war before. We will not be politically correct, but we're not going to be there. And I think, you know, as you mentioned, Bibi before, peace through strength. And that's what it's all about. The United States has the greatest and most powerful military in the right now history of the world. I can tell you we have weapons that nobody has ever dreamt of. I only hope we never have to use them. I rebuilt the military. I was proud to do it. But some of the things I hated to do, I hated certain of the weapons because the level of power is so enormous. It's so dangerous, so bad. But we have to do what we have to do. We make the best weapons in the world, and we've got a lot of them. And we've given a lot to Israel, frankly. And, I mean, Bibi would call me so many times. Can you get me this weapon? That weapon, that weapon. Some of them I never heard of. B.B. and I made them. But we'd get them here, wouldn't we? And they are the best. They are the best. But you used them well. It also takes people that know how to use them, and you obviously used them very well. But so many that Israel became strong and powerful, which ultimately led to peace. That's what led to peace. So as we celebrate today, let us remember how this nightmare of depravity and death all began. Two years ago, on the eve of the Simchat Torah holiday, thousands of innocent Israeli civilians were attacked by terrorists. And one of the most evil and heinous desecrations of innocent life the world has ever seen. The worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust. The cruelty of October 7th struck to the core of humanity itself. Nobody could believe what they were witnessing. The United States of America grieved alongside you, and we mourned for our own citizens who were so viciously taken that day. 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. Never forget and never again. From October 7th until this week, Israel has been a nation at war, enduring burdens that only a proud and faithful people could withstand. It was a very tough period of time for so many families across this land. It has been years since you've known a single day of true peace. But now it lasts, not only for Israelis, but also for Palestinians and for many others. The long and painful nightmare is finally over. And as the dust settles, the smoke fades, the debris is removed, and the ashes clean from the air. The day that breaks on a region transformed, and a beautiful and much brighter future appear suddenly within your reach. This is now a very exciting time for Israel and for the entire Middle East. Because all across the Middle east, the forces of chaos, terror and ruin that have plagued the region for decades now stand weakened, isolated, and totally defeated. A new coalition of proud and responsible nations is emerging. And because of us, the enemies of all civilization are in Retreat. Thanks to the bravery and incredible skill of the Israeli Defense Forces in Operation Rising Lion. That's central casting. Let's put them in a movie. Look at him. Great job. And my people loved working with you. Loved it. They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this earth. And with Operation Midnight Hammer. Boy, that's a great name for that. What we did. Last June, the United states military flew seven of those beautiful B2 bombers. They looked so beautiful all of a sudden. They were always. I thought they were pretty planes. I had no idea they could do what they did. In fact, we just ordered 28 more of them. A little update, a little updated version. We ordered a whole pile of them and almost 100 other planes went with them, including fighter jets. We had 52 tankers, big, beautiful, brand new tankers that were loading them up four or five times. They traveled 37 hours back and forth. Think of that. But we had tankers all over the sky for all the other planes. We had the F22s, the F35s, F16s. We had a hell of a lot of planes. So we had 52 gas stations in the sky. That's what they call them. I'll tell you, I wouldn't want to be flying one of them. We have our great general Raisin Cain right here. General, stand up. This guy. What a general. Thank you. I asked General Kaine, I said, you know, we're having problems with isis. And I was in Washington and I asked, how long would it take to defeat isis? And my Washington generals told me, three, four, maybe five years, sir. I said, I don't get it. We've got the best equipment in the world. Why? So I flew to Iraq and I met with a man named Kain. He said, what's your first name? He said, they call me Raisin, sir. I said, wait a minute. Your name is Raisin Cain? I've been looking for you for a long time. You got to be kidding. So they told me three, four, five years to defeat isis. And I sit down with him and I say, why is it I flew there in the dark of night? I landed. I'll never forget it. It's quite a trip. I'm glad I made it because I met him. I said, could I ask you, general? I come down, he said, with another general and a sergeant. Everybody was like, central casting. They could go into a movie. Right now, between him and you guys over here, we could get rich making movies. Okay, but, but. And they Got along so great. That's the beautiful thing, that your military and our military, Bibi, got along so great. But I was told by the television generals in Washington, we have the best equipment in the world. Why is it taking so long? And they said, four years. I said, so let me ask you, Raisin, how long would it take you to defeat isis? Sir, we can do it in three weeks, but you'll probably have some time left over. I said, you've got to be kidding. What the hell are you talking about? They said, four years. I said, well, sir, look, it's not my place to say, but you're asking me the question. What you have to do is you hit him from the west, you hit him from the north, you hit him from the south, you hit him above, you hit him below. I said, so why didn't they do it? And he didn't want to speak badly of his superiors, which is hard to believe. They were his superiors should have been the other way around a long time ago, because he's the one that did operation. It was flawless. It was flawless. It was absolutely flawless. And. And I said, so you really think you can do it in four weeks? Yes, sir, 100%. You have to do it differently than they were doing it. They were using one base, and it was hundreds of miles away. And he says, we have all these portable bases all over the Middle East. And they didn't want to use them because they didn't want to offend the country where the portable. They wouldn't have even known what the hell the planes were going up. Right? They wouldn't have known. But he said, no, they didn't want to defend anybody, offend anybody, and. But we can do it in four weeks. I said, you sure about that? I'm going to call you back. I'll call you back on Monday. I'm going back to Washington. But you think four weeks. Yes, sir, I think we can do it in four weeks. We'll have time left over. So I call him on Monday. I said, you think he can do it four weeks? I said, go ahead and do it. He did it. I'll tell you. He did it in four weeks. Less than four weeks. So, General, stand up, please. Again, this is a real general. This is not a television general. He doesn't want to go on television. He doesn't want to go on television. I said, the other guys love being on television. So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. And that's been Confirmed. And everybody understands that together we stop the number one state sponsor of terror from obtaining the world's most dangerous weapons. And if you think about it, if we didn't do that, and assuming we made the same deal that we have today, there'd be a dark cloud over this deal. And number one, it wouldn't happen because the other Arab and Muslim nations really wouldn't feel comfortable making the deal that we have now. Right. If Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from having, they would have had it in two months or maybe less than that. They were right at. This was our last shot. They looked at it for 22 years. This was our last shot. The pilots told me that. They said 22 years, sir. They looked at it, our predecessors looked, they studied it. Three times a year we'd do drills on that exact attack and boy, did they get it right. But let's assume they didn't. And let's assume there was large scale nuclear weapons in the hands of Iran. We couldn't be here today even if we signed the deal, which we couldn't do because a lot of people would not want to have anything to do with it. We took a big cloud off of the Middle east and off of Israel and it was my honor to, to help. But it isn't. Isn't it true though that. Can you imagine the same, let's assume, maybe the same documents we had, everything the same. But you had somebody out there that was, in the opinion of everybody, all powerful in the Middle East. They took a big hit, didn't they? Didn't they take a big hit? Boy, oh boy, they got hit from one side for the other. And you know, it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them. And I think that's because. Would you be happy with that? Wouldn't it be nice? I think, because I think they want to. I think they're tired. Somebody said, sir, they're starting their nuclear program again. I said, let me tell you something, they're not starting anything. They want to survive. The last thing they want to do is start digging holes again in mountains that just got blown up and start. They're not doing. They want to survive, okay, but I think we have a chance. Steve, you and I think, Jared, come on. I'll call you back for another one. We always bring Jared, when we want to get that deal closed, we bring Jared. But Steve, you and Jared and the general and Pete and Marco, you'll get that deal done easy. I think that'll be Easy. But first we have to get Russia done. We got to get that one done. If you don't mind, Steve, let's focus on Russia first. All right, we'll get it, though. In Lebanon, the dagger of Hezbollah, long aimed at Israel's throat, has been totally shattered. My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon in his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah's terror brigades. He's doing very well and build a thriving state at peace with its neighbors. And you're very much in. In favor of that. I know. And it's good things are happening there, really good things. And with this week's ceasefire, we've achieved the most challenging breakthrough of them all. The most challenging breakthrough maybe ever. I mean, I've never seen anything like. I've been involved in a lot of success. I have never seen anything like what's going on today. All over the world, people are dancing in the streets. Not just in Israel, they're dancing in the streets of countries that would have never danced in the street about what's happening today. They're dancing in those streets. So this long and difficult war has now ended. You know, some people say 3,000 years, some people say 500 years. Whatever it is, it's the granddaddy of them all. 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. So Israel, with our help, has won all that they can by force of arms. You've won. I mean, you've won. Now it's time to translate these victories against terrorists on the battlefield into the ultimate prize of peace and prosperity for the entire Middle East. It's about time you were able to enjoy the fruits of your Labor, Mr. Opposition Leader. I said he's a very nice opposition leader, I think. No, he's a nice man, Bibi. He's a nice man. Good. He knows what he's doing, right? No, he's a very nice guy. Well, see, now you can be a little bit nicer, Bibi, because you're not at war anymore, Bibi. But only by embracing the opportunities of this moment can we achieve our goal of ensuring that the horrors of recent years will never happen again. You don't want to have to go through this again. Eight years ago, I came to this region on a very special first trip abroad as the President of the United States. I came here very early at your request. I addressed the leaders of the Arab And Muslim world gathered in Saudi Arabia and said that it was time to build a future free of the grip of extremism and terror. And I'm interestingly right now, as soon as I'm finished, I'm quite late. You've kept me quite late. Between opposition leaders and Bibi's brilliant but very long speech, I thought I was going to run up here, make a speech and then head to Egypt. It didn't work out, though. And you made a pretty long one too, Sarah. But I liked what you all said. It could be worse. Supposing on top of it, I didn't like what you said. That would. No, that would be no good, Ron. Would it? Ron, you did a great job, by the way. Ron. So I'm going to be meeting, actually in a little while, I'm going to be meeting with the most powerful, the richest nations really in the world. Although now with the tariffs, the United States is by far the richest nation in the world, as you, you probably have been reading. But the richest nations, most powerful nations, you know, tremendous, tremendous, headed by some tremendous people in many cases, Some cases I wouldn't say necessarily I would endorse, but I will tell you some incredible people that really helped us make this all possible. So I'll be going there, I'll be quite late. They might not be there by the time I get there, but we're going to give it a shot. But the journey we started back then led to the crushing defeat of the ISIS caliphate, to the monumental Abraham Accords, and ultimately to the historic ceasefire this week in which many of those same nations really played a very pivotal role. I have to tell you, Steve will tell you that, Jared will tell you that together we've shown that peace is not just a hope that we can dream about, it's a reality we can build upon day by day, person by person and nation by nation. And because of that, the Middle east is finally ready to embrace its extraordinary potential. You have extraordinary potential in this region. It should now be clear to everyone throughout the region that decades of fomenting terrorism and extremism, jihadism and anti Semitism have not worked. They haven't worked. They've been a disaster. They've just killed. They've killed. They've backfired completely and totally. They've just totally backfired. Everything that you thought, take it, worst case, it's turned out to be worse than that. They have not worked. From Gaza to Iran, those bitter hatreds have delivered nothing but misery, suffering, fear, failure and death. They've Served not to weaken Israel, but to annihilate the very forces that did the most to foment this hatred. And it's really. I mean, everybody that's tried it has become irrelevant. Meanwhile, we've seen those nations that set aside their differences, reached across ancient divides and pursued engagement, are now among the most successful in the region. They're getting along with Israel and they're doing great. And I can tell you, the four nations that joined the Abraham Accords early on, and you'd all be doing me a favor, and I'm going to be saying this in a little while to some other friends, would love you all to. Is this right, Jared? Join up in the Abraham Accords? We have to join up and get together. You can have that whole thing filled out. We had a very weak administration, worst president in the history of our country by far. And Barack Obama was not far behind, by the way. And they did nothing with this incredible document, the Abraham Accords. But now you can fill them up now. Now you have peace. You have people that really like Israel. I'll tell you what. And they like Israel a lot more today than they did even five weeks ago. Like, you've made a lot of. You've come back. You've come back strong because it was getting to be a little nasty out there in the world. And ultimately the world wins. You can't beat the world. I would say to Bibi, Bibi, it's now time. And he understood it better than anybody because ultimately, you know, the world's a very big place. And I've said a lot, I said, this piece of land is very small. It's unbelievable what you've done with that tiny. You look at a map even, of just not the world, the Middle east, and you have this little dot, and think of what you've done. It's incredible. It's incredible. But the world is loving. The world is loving Israel again. And I said to, you know, the world is big and it's strong. And Ron, ultimately the world wins, and we don't have to worry about that now. But there was getting to be a period of time over the last few months. You know, the world wanted peace and Israel wanted peace. Everybody did. Everybody did. And what a victory it's been, right? What a victory it's been. If you would have gone on for three, four more years. Keep fighting, fighting, fighting. It was. It was getting bad. It was getting heated. The timing of this is brilliant. And I said, bibi, you're going to be remembered for this far more than if you kept this thing going, going, going, kill, kill, kill, it would be not. It would not be the same. And I just want to congratulate you for having the courage to say, that's it, we've won, and now let's enjoy our lives and let's rebuild Israel and make it stronger and bigger and better than it's ever been before. We're going to do that. Took a lot of guts. And the choice for Palestinians could not be more clear. This is their chance to turn forever from the path of terror and violence. It's been extreme. To exile the wicked forces of hate that are in their midst. And I think that's going to happen. I've met some people over the last couple of months that want to see it happen very much. And after tremendous pain and death and hardship, now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down. We don't want that to happen again. And the total focus of Gazans must be on restoring the fundamentals of stability, safety, dignity, and economic development so they can finally have the better life that their children really do deserve after all these decades of horror. I intend to be a partner in this effort in the sense that we're going to help and we're going to do something that became unbelievably popular. Everybody wants to be on it. It's called the Board of Peace. Okay, how about that? Is that a beautiful name, like a Board of Peace? The only bad thing from my standpoint, every single nation involved has asked me to be the chair. And I'll tell you, I'm very busy. I didn't count on that. But you know what? If we do it, we'll do it right. And we have unbelievable power and wealth because you're going to need wealth. You're going to need wealth to rebuild things. And they have wealth like few people have wealth. I want to thank the Arab and Muslim nations for their commitment as they've made to support a safe rebuilding of Gaza and beyond. I have many Arab countries, very wealthy countries, that came up and said, we'll put up tremendous amounts of money to get rebuilt, to rebuild Gaza. And I think that's going to happen. The power. They want dignity. They want to come forward and they want to say. And I want to say who they are. Because what they're doing is going to be, I think, something that you're going to be very impressed with, Bibi. And you need that. You need the kind of economic power that they have, and they want to see it work and they want to see it be safe and they want to see it be good for Israel, too. And as much money as it will be. And it's a lot, as you can see. It's a lot for these countries. It's relatively little relative to their worth. It's really a lot of money, like money like most people could never even conceive. But for these countries, it's not that much, especially because it ensures success and stability in the Middle east, which is what they want to see. So many of them will be with us in Egypt in a little while, I think. I'm not sure. They may be gone. They may have taken their Boeing 747s and left. I said, what kind of a plane do you fly? 747. I said, that's a large plane. No, they may have. Steve, do you think they've left on their Boeing 7, their brand new Boeing 747s or. I don't know. We're going to find out soon. It's going to be a big story. There'll be two people left and they'll be the two poorest ones, but. But it will be the wealthiest and most powerful group of nations. So the group that we have assembled that's waiting for us is the wealthiest and most powerful group ever assembled at one time. There has never been a group like this. And they're only looking for good. They want good. They're going to do good. And as those commitments are made, I'm going to let the world know who's doing it, because they really deserve to get the credit. And some of them probably won't want the credit, but they deserve, deserve it. It's more obvious than ever that the productive and responsible nations of this region should not be enemies or adversaries. You should be partners and eventually even friends. And that's what's going to happen. I know it. Together you can stand against the forces of chaos. Yeah, you go ahead. It's an important point because you can stand against the forces of chaos that threatened all of your interests. And it's always a big threat, always a big threat, and unleash incredible prosperity and opportunity for all the people of these lands. And that's what's going to happen. You're going to unleash numbers and success the likes of which Israel has never been able to think of, because you're so firm and you should be, and you've done the right thing in defending yourself. You're not going to have to worry so much about it. You've won. And now you can build and you can do things that you never even thought possible. It's going. When you put that genius into doing something else, it's going to be something that's. It's going to be a miracle. The miracle in the desert. It's going to be amazing. And it already is, in a true sense. But it'll be wonderful when you can spend time thinking about other than war and defense and offense also. To that end, it's my firm hope and dream, frankly, that together the Abraham Accords will turn out to be everything that we thought they would. Those four countries were very, very brave in doing it. They did it at a very early point. And every single one of them benefits unbelievably financially. And if you notice, even in this bad period that we just went through, they all remained a member of the Abraham Accords. They've done unbelievably well. And I just. And you know who you are, and I want to thank you. And they've stayed because of loyalty, but they've also stayed because it was really good business. They've made a lot of money being members. And you're going to all. I think, I hope that everyone. I hope that every one of the countries that we're seeking, Jared, I hope they join quickly. No games, no nothing. Just join. Get it. It's going to be a great peacemaker. It's really going to bring it together beyond any anybody's wildest dream. So instead of building fortresses to keep enemies at bay, the nations of this region should be building infrastructure to weave your commerce closer together. Because you've got to compete with the big world out there in commerce. Now, it's a different kind of competition. Instead of making weapons and missiles, the wealth of this region should flow to schools and medicine, industry, and frankly, the new hot artificial intelligence. It's. Well, it's a lot of intelligence you're going to have to be thrown off to make to pay back these sums of money that they're doing. But that's really the hot one. And I might say that the United States a year ago was a dead country. I say it to people. I heard it first from the king of Saudi Arabia. I then heard it from uae. I heard it from Qatar. I heard it from many other countries. A year ago, the United States of America was a dead country. Now it's the hottest country anywhere in the world. It is the hottest. There's no question about it. In fact, if you go back a year ago, before the election Although Once we had November 5th, we became hot because people got it. I would say November 5th was the time that we became really hot. But once you go back a couple of years, if I were in charge and the country is doing what they. Nobody was going to ask me to speak. Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak. I guarantee you that. And if they did, he would have turned them down, I promise you. He didn't speak. He didn't speak, and he didn't speak well. But all of the countries in the Middle east, it could have. What we're doing now, it could have happened a long time ago, but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of Barack Obama and then Joe Biden. It was. There was a hatred toward Israel. There was an absolute hatred. The setbacks really started when President Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal. This was a disaster for Israel, and it was a disaster for everyone. And I remember that Bibi Netanyahu came to the United States and worked so hard to try and get Obama not to do that deal. He worked so hard, but it was like talking to a wall. I remember him telling me it was like talking to a wall. They wanted to go with Iran. They chose Iran, frankly, over a lot of other good nations, but specifically Israel. And that was the beginning of a very bad period of time. You had Obama go out, and the Iran nuclear deal turned out to be a disaster. And by the way, I terminated the Iran nuclear deal, and I was very proud to do it. Yet even to Iran, whose regime has inflicted so much death on the Middle east that the hand of friendship and cooperation is open. I'm telling you, they want to make a deal. That's all I do in my life. I make deals. I'm good at it. I've always been good at it. And I know when they want. Even if they said, we don't want to make a deal, I can tell you they want to make a deal. All right, they do. They want to make a deal. And we're going to see if we can do something, because this is crazy what's happening, and we're not going to have this anymore. Neither the United States nor Israel bear the people of Iran any hostility. We. We merely want to live in peace. We don't want any looming threats over our heads, and we don't want to even think in terms of nuclear destruction. It's not going to happen. Never. 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