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Buck Brief - Trump's Huge Middle East Win Could Change the World
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Trump delivers a massive win on the Middle East. In just the last 48 hours, we've had the return of 20 hostages. Those who are still held alive by Hamas returned to their families. That's incredible. You have the framework of a ceasefire and going forward, a peace deal between Israel and Hamas that has been agreed to by both sides. This is an enormous win for the Trump administration. And I've got to say, it's just the first year of Trump term two, and already you have to wonder what else is in store for us. This is incredible. It's something that is so above and beyond, I think, what could be expected for an administration that, as I've said, is still only in its first year, that even Trump's enemies out there are willing to say that this is a really good day and that what Trump has accomplished here is. Is amazing. Now, let me. Let me just put this out there. And I know there are going to be people that get mad at me for it, and that's okay. I don't care, because it's true. And the truth is what it is. There were a lot of people who were wrong. Well, there are people who are wrong about the Israel Hamas conflict from day one. And those are the people that were saying there should be a ceasefire right after October 7th. This would be as morally obtuse, as immoral as calling for a ceasefire with al Qaeda on September 12, 2001. It's insane. And there were people who were calling for a ceasefire right away. And really all that was was the using the pretense of a humanitarian concern to allow Israel's enemies to attack without reprisal, which is a monstrous thing to demand of the people of Israel, and was always completely and utterly outside, you know, outside the realm of what is reasonable, what is ethical. It was just disgraceful, Honestly, it was disgraceful. And I think that now people have a greater recognition of that than ever before, because we see that those who were calling for a ceasefire are not. I'm talking about in this country in particular, are not particularly happy about the fact that we are in a ceasefire now. In fact, they've been very muted in saying anything about this. And what does that tell you about their real aims in this process? What does it tell you about the reality of what those individuals were trying to achieve when they were calling for ceasefire right away. So that's one part of it. There are people who were wrong the whole time and they were acting in bad faith. They were not criticizing Israel here and there. They were opposed to Israel's right to defend itself from the very beginning because they're opposed to the state of Israel. So that's one contingent in this argument. But then there were others. There were others who emerged, I would say, in the second year of this two year conflict on the right who were increasingly bitter and caustic in their criticisms of the way that Israel was conducting this war. And they even went along with, in the last six months, the claims of genocide and starvation in Gaza. There was no genocide, there was no. And there was no starvation. And that should have been very obvious all along. But there was a really ruthless propaganda campaign to defame the Israeli military, the IDF, and to highlight in. Highlight isn't even the right word to wildly exaggerate to the point of falsification the suffering of the people of Gaza, which I'm not saying there weren't Gazans suffering and there weren't civilians who were killed. Of course there were. And that is a terrible thing. But war is a terrible thing, no matter how just the war may be. Think about what America did in the Second World War, for example, a war that we can at least generally speaking all agree was a just war from the US Perspective. We were attacked at Pearl harbor and Germany and Japan joined an alliance against us. They declared war on us together. So what choice did we have? But when we firebombed Tokyo or when we were bombing Dresden, the Allies were bombing Dresden, there were a lot of innocent people who died and I think you could argue too many innocent people maybe in those situations. But war is hell. Now you get into Hiroshima and Nagasaki conversation. There's a lot. My point is when you're fighting a war, terrible things are going to happen. The Israelis fought a just rather responded with war to Hamas inciting a war. They started the war, Israel finished it. And you can see, I understand there's a lot of Gaza that has been destroyed, a lot of buildings. And Israel told people to get out of the, to get away. Israel gave ample warning that they were coming. It is Hamas's decision to use people, to use its own civilians as human shields, which they do and always have done routinely. It is Hamas's decision to use hospitals and other buildings in violation of Geneva Convention, in violation of the rules of war, such as they are to use those buildings so that any strike on those military facilities, because that's what they've become. When you're storing missiles and soldiers and other things there, then claim that there are some campaign of genocide that the Israelis are engaged in. Those are all decisions made by Hamas. I want to tell you about an exciting new project that I'm working on. In just the last few weeks, thousands of everyday Americans have joined me and my research partners in an exciting new venture to tap into the wealth of this robust stock market. It's a one of a kind opportunity, something that I'm calling the Manhattan Project. 2. 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If I, if I have to engage someone who is shooting actively at me and others from behind a hostage that they have taken, I am morally in the right to respond with the most accurate fire that I can. Now, hopefully I would only hit the hostage taker, but if I hit that hostage, it's on the hostage taker. It's not my fault. I don't have to sit there and get killed because somebody else has chosen to hide behind a human shield. And this is what was lost by a lot of people, including some people on the right in this process. And also I know these people are saying, you know, this is not America first or what. I don't know what they think they're talking about. Trump is the one who is leading this negotiation. Trump is the one who was an ally to Israel throughout this whole process. So if, if what I'm saying is in America first, then what Trump was doing is in America first, which is absurd because he is the leader of the founder and leader of the America first and MAGA movement. So you can't have it both ways. Some of the commenters around here, you can't have it both ways. Well, yeah, what Trump did is amazing, but you supporting what Trump did in this instance is somehow contrary to the movement. No, Incorrect. Incorrect. And then that takes me to the claims about starvation. The claims about starvation were also lies. And any food short. There were shortages, and I'm sure there were nights where people were going hungry in different parts of Gaza. It's a war. But starving means that would mean that you had no access to sufficient calories for a period of 30 or more days, because that's generally what it would require. And some people can last six to eight weeks before they're truly in a starvation phase. That could be fatal. It depends how much, obviously, body fat you have on you. Depends how old you are. But there's a difference between shortages, where people might go hungry in a war zone for a day here or there, which is uncomfortable and I understand, and starvation, which is a horrible and just deeply tragic state where people are dying because they don't have enough caloric intake. That's a very different thing. And there is no evidence whatsoever that there was starvation in Gaza. There's hunger in America tonight. Okay? There are people going hungry tonight. In some places. They're not starving to death. Now, hunger is something to be addressed, but starvation is a very different thing. And the claims were that there was intentional starvation of civilians in Gaza. A lie. A lie. And you know how you can tell this? There are many ways. But one of them is that in Gaza, Hamas, in just the last 24 hours, has been in gun battles with and has executed in public people over fighting over who's going to be in charge. If you're dealing with mass starvation, are you really wasting resources and time as Hamas doing public executions to show everybody that you're still in charge? Given that there's a peace deal that was just signed with Israel, wouldn't you be rushing all resources and attention to making sure that you. You are feeding everybody well? Hamas was stealing food from that the Israelis were providing, of course, and the IDF was providing. Hamas was stealing that food and selling it on the black market or keeping it for themselves the whole time? There was no moral equivalency between these two sides. I'll have this argument with anybody. I'll win because I'm right. There was no moral equivalency between the IDF and Hamas and people that played this game of, oh, they're, they're, you know, both sides are bad or both sides do bad things. They were being deeply, either disingenuous or just dishonest. And I think that we'll be able to see more and more of that now because you'll see that the casualty figures for this kind of urban warfare over two years were actually, civilian casualty figures were actually quite low. And you'll have more and more information coming out about just how depraved Hamas was. Think about this. You know, 2,000 Palestinians were released. Those are prisoners, those are combatants who were taken off the battlefield as part of this swap for the 20 hostages. 2000 criminals, terrorists have been released back to Gaza. Not a single person in custody of Israel was tortured and, or died in captivity. And yet look at how many hostages taken by Hamas died in captivity. And you could say, oh well, that's because it's warfare and it was challenging to. No, they mistreated them intentionally. We all know this, right? They tortured them, they let them starve and they let them die. Because what motivates Hamas is not an independent state, it is hatred of Jews. That is the fundamental reality of Hamas as an organization. And unfortunately it is a primary psychological reality of a lot of Palestinians in Gaza. And all of the data would show that the actions of the government in Hamas, the fact that people voted for this government in Gaza, anecdotally, I could tell you all kinds of stories about Palestinians that I have met from the so called occupied territories and what they say about Israel. I mean, hatred of Jews in Israel is the primary motivation to, the primary motivation for Hamas and for everybody who supports them. So that has all become very apparent. Something else I thought was really interesting, you had the, one of the hostages came forward to say that Hamas was scared of Trump. And I thought this was really interesting. What more clear separation could there be between Democrats and Republicans on this? What more obvious data points would you need to have in hand to show that the Democrats are unserious? They ran an unserious candidate with Kamala Harris and they are unserious people on foreign policy and international affairs. They think because of the credentials of some of their elites and the way that they approach these multilateral and consensus building and all this other nonsense, they think that they have a better handle on it, but the results say exactly the opposite, that they are terrible at this. And that Trump, who doesn't have the other than being president now for five years, who doesn't have the background in diplomacy that many of these people, like Tony Blinken, Tony Blinken is a loser. Okay? This guy, the only thing he's ever accomplished is puffing up his resume, going from one institution to another where he's entirely replaceable and does nothing of any worth. This is true of all of the senior foreign policy personnel under the Biden administration and before that, under the Obama administration. These are unserious people that produced unserious results or rather serious damage. You could go in that direction to U.S. interests. And the fact that Hamas was so angry or really scared and upset that Donald Trump had won the election just goes to show you our enemies want weak Democrats in office, meaning just Democrats. Our enemies, the people that really want to do Americans and Israelis and really want to do civilization harm, whether it's the Iranians or the North Koreans or. Or Putin or anywhere, Venezuela, the regime there, Maduro regime. They want Democrats in charge. It's just the truth. There is no enemy regime to America anywhere in the world that would rather have Donald Trump in office than Kamala Harris. I think that speaks volumes. It speaks louder than anything I can even say on the subject. That is the truth. So a huge win for Trump with this Mideast piece. I've never seen anything like this in my life where the Mideast actually has hope for a stable future. 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