Buck Sexton (24:05)
Amazing, amazing stuff from President Trump in Egypt, just there live. And honestly the best day I can remember in the Middle east, period. I don't have anything to say beyond that. I've never thought there was a more hopeful moment for that region and for all people over there who want peace. All people of goodwill, including of course, our Israeli friends and allies. October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We put so much of our personal info online because that's just the modern era we live in. But it comes with great risk. Online hackers, they're bad dudes and they can break into databases and steal our info. It happens all the time. They drain bank accounts, hijack credit cards, apply for bogus loans in your name. You need someone to have your back online. That's where lifelock comes in. Lifelock is your best defense, hands down. Lifelock monitors hundreds of of millions of data points a second for threats to your identity. 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It's such a boring and cheap way to get attention for content, whether it's written or spoken or tv. We don't do that. When there's problems, we say there are problems and we talk about how to fix them. When there are wins, we take a moment to describe and enjoy together those wins. And today is certainly a big win for the Trump administration, for Israel, and for the broader Middle East. And if you hear any growling in the background, it is because Ginger realizes that my lunch has made its way into the studio, and now all of a sudden, she loves me more than ever. Look at that. My little Australian labradoodle has decided that, you know, Trump is pretty great, but Papa Buck has some fresh cooked chicken nearby, so I got to make sure that she's not growling into the microphone here. All right, let's get. Let's dive into this. I think this is really interesting. The details, how Trump got this deal to go through. Wall Street Journal had a really excellent write up on this in the last 24 hours. And let me, let me share some of this with you. When Hamas leader Khalil al Haya first saw President Trump's plan for peace in Gaza, which demanded that his group disarm with few concrete steps to ensure Israel would end the war, his immediate reaction was no. The plan, heavily amended by Israel and presented to Hamas by the Qatari prime minister and Egypt's spy chief, looked nothing like what Haya had been led to expect. Haya, who less than a month earlier had been a target of Israel's audacious attack on Hamas in Qatar, told his visitors the group would keep its Israeli hostages until it had enforceable guarantees the war would end. But two days later, Hamas came back to Arab mediators with a yes, the deal hadn't Changed the pressure on Hamas had Egypt and Qatar told Haya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting. End quote. Ok, this is really important because we often think of this as a US Israel, IDF action. Right. It's like we're negotiating, Trump is negotiating, Israel's doing the fighting, and we have intermediaries over there. But clearly the diplomacy that the Trump administration was negate. Engaged in and, and really negotiations more like a business deal than what I think your general diplomat would be engaged in. Right. Trump has a different approach to this stuff. I mean, diplomats. I've known State Department diplomats, I've been around State Department diplomats in an earlier life when I was a government guy myself. They don't get stuff done. It's just not a culture of getting things done. It's a culture of process. The State Department is, by its very nature a lethargic bureaucracy that mostly exists to exist because we gotta have diplomats somewhere, we gotta have open lines of communication with these different countries, et cetera. But generally, the results, overwhelmingly the results are really unimpressive. Trump comes in there and he's got sleeves rolled up. He's got his team led by Marco Rubio, whom I might point out Trump is saying is going to go down in history as the greatest secretary of state in our history. Now, I'm going to say I think Rubio. Full credit to Rubio for doing a phenomenal job so far. But if you're talking secretaries of state in all history, there have been some pretty big moves, you know. Right. Didn't one of them buy Alaska? I mean, there's been some pretty big stuff. So I don't. Yeah, I'm not saying Marco is not going to get there, but number one for Marco all time. Number one, maybe our lifetime. Sure. Number one all time. We still got a little work to do. You know, there's. There's still some things that have to be looked at here, but certainly it has been the administration's team that got us to this point, which is an incredible success. And the fact that you have these other Mideast countries that were willing to tell Hamas, you got to knock this crap off and end this war, like enough is enough, is really indicative, I think, of how much the pressure that Trump's team was bringing to bear had borne fruit, how much this was really moving the ball downfield because Qatar, as you know, the Israelis launched a strike in Qatar Then Trump had the whole, come on, you got to apologize. I mean, Trump has been the guy in the bar here who is holding back two guys who have really bloodied each other up. And one of them started it. That's Hamas. One of them is responsible for the fight. But he was able to stand in between these combatants and say, all right, you're going to knock this off. And, hey, you. If they knock it off, you're willing to. You're willing to let it go, right? You know, we're going to stop this thing. And you needed that. You needed that to get us to this point. But that Turkey would. For example, Turkey is way too favorable toward Hamas for a whole bunch of reasons. But that Turkey was willing to say, if you don't agree to this deal, were you're on your own. Basically, Turkey was telling Hamas, we're cutting you loose. That's a big. For people who have been following the region, and that's big stuff. You know, Hamas has been far too willing, or rather Turkey has been far too willing to be there in support of Hamas through. Through thick and thin. Finally it got to be too thin. Finally got to be too much. So this campaign that got the final. The final, really. Surrender, it's. Hamas is surrendered. It's a surrender with guarantees. But surrender is what this is, and that's what it should be. The members of Hamas who are still alive should consider themselves lucky. I know Hamas is a death cult, and they love sending other people to die and to kill as many innocent Israelis and Jews as possible. I know that's what Hamas really is at its core. But it's still for the leadership that somehow doesn't like to die. The Hamas leadership, they don't like to be suicide bombers. They want to send other people to be suicide bombers. But for Hamas leadership, they should count themselves very lucky, very fortunate that they still have their lives at the end of this, because Israel would have been well within its rights. And really, I have argued from the beginning, Israel had an obligation to wipe Hamas out after what they did on October 7th, and a moral obligation to the Israeli people and to the world to the degree there is an international community, to humanity. Israel had an obligation, a moral and ethical one, as well as just a national security imperative to hunt Hamas down. And they have done so. And they have been incredibly effective as well as ethical in that process. That does not mean perfect. War is never perfect. There will always be civilian casualties. There's always going to be collateral damage to a city. But now even it will become more Clear than ever. The people who were telling you that there was mass starvation in Gaza as a result of Israeli policy were lying. The people who are saying that Israel was engaged in a genocide were lying. This is going to become even more clear in the days ahead. Those voices are just going to try to fade, I might add. They're going to fade and you're going to hear a lot less of them. But what they were saying was a slander and it was morally obtuse. It was decrepit. It was disgraceful. And that is what they were doing intentionally, during a time of war to confuse as much as they could, America as an ally of Israel in this process. This was always very clear to me and to Clay and to Clay's immense credit. I know he's. He's away for the rest of the show today. We never coordinated response. We never had to say, well, you know, we're going to be disagreeing or agreeing on this or anything like that. But from the moment October 7th happened forward, we saw this through the same moral lens. And I think that's. I have a, obviously an international relations, national security background, but Clay is just a very high iq, high wattage guy, and also with a very clear sense of right and wrong. And so we never had static on this show. We never had a sense of, oh, but maybe Israel has gone too far, or maybe Israel is engaged in a genocide that never. And you know, this, you who have been listening for these two years, that never entered into our consciousness on the show for one second. And we followed this as closely as we could from afar. And Clay went to get ground truth in Israel, as you know, last, last December. But, and I'm very proud of that. And as I've been saying, I've had a lot of people come up who are listeners to the show, and I have a tremendous number of conservative Miami Beach American Jews who listen to this show. I know because when I'm walking the streets, they come up to me and they. The first thing they say is, great show. The second thing they say is, thank you for standing with Israel. And not, not, you know, abandoning would be extreme. But even being a bit wishy washy on it, you know, even getting to a place where you started, oh, I'm just asking questions, you know, is Israel really the good guy here or is the IDF really justified? Is no, none of that nonsense here for one second. And now that this conflict is over, I think people will be able to look back on it with even more factual clarity about who was accurate and who was playing propaganda with this stuff. So these are all important considerations. These are all things that I want us to remember as we move forward. And we will continue to cover this and look to see what happens with Hamas and look to see what regional players want a more stable and prosperous Middle East. But this is the question of the moment. Are there Muslim majority Arab countries, including now perhaps a majority of the Palestinian people, who want their lives to be about whether their kids are able to pick the careers they want, build the families they want, and have the futures that they want, or is it going to be suicide bombers, Allahu Akbar, and all the other nonsense and atrocities that we have seen for decades? That's really what it comes down to. This is a choice. The Israelis stand on the other side of this willing to say, okay, we can move forward with that positive, with that prosperous future. And America and other partners here are willing to be there in assistance to build a Gaza where the lights stay on, the water's clean to drink, the businesses can flourish. We can do that. You know, you know, Gaza can be. Amman, Gaza can be a safe, you know, reasonably happy and prosperous place, and everywhere has their challenges. But, you know, there's an old joke about, and I say this, I've been to Jordan, and I think the Jordanians are great people and they're actually great allies to America, too. But people joke around that it's the Hashemite Kingdom of boredom, because not a lot goes on there. Now, that's unfair. And there's Petra and there's a lot of cool stuff, but there's a very low crime rate in Amman. So it's said, really with praise, in a sense, that it's boring. It's very low crime rate and generally a stable place. Gaza could be a stable, reasonable place, too. It does not have to be some terrorist hellhole. Doesn't have to be that. And now maybe, maybe that can happen. And it will be because of the people that have seen this with clarity all along. And also brave IDF soldiers who took the fight to Gaza and did what was necessary. And President Trump negotiating this deal. President Trump ordering the strike on Iran. President Trump standing with Israel when they debilitated diminished Hezbollah. So all of this together puts us where we are right now. Something to really be proud of. Oh, we'll take some calls here in just a moment. You know, I want to ask you, what's for dinner? It's a question that more kids have asked, more moms making dinner than any other. Dinner was the meal that got everyone to the same table. But was it like that at your home? As our lives get busy, you don't always have dinner with your family, but Good Ranchers wants to remind everybody. Make time for that great tasting meal, especially with meat, chicken, pork and salmon from Good Ranchers. Make time for that family dinner from now through Thanksgiving. Good Ranchers is encouraging families to sit down and share a meal every Thursday. Doesn't have to be fancy, just has to be together. And here's the fun part. 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