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Tim Dillon (0:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show. Are we excited about the cease fire? I am pumped about the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. It's a ceasefire, baby. What about. What happened to that? What happened to the days when, like, Bruce Springsteen would write a song like, that is what I desire, a ceasefire. And it would be a moment. I don't feel like we have enough of those today. We don't have moments. We don't. We don't have a nice moment. Like a nice, you know. Now people are mad at Israel because the ceasefire starts on Sunday, officially. And yesterday I think they killed a bunch of people that were celebrating the ceasefire. That's what happened. They were. There was a bunch of people celebrating the ceasefire and Israel killed them. Well, listen, have you ever said, I'm starting a diet on Monday? What do you do Sunday? It's lasagna night. So this Israel starting a diet of no killing of the Palestinians on Sunday. They're starting a strict ketogenic, no carbs, killing Palestinian babies at all for any reason on Sunday. But up until Sunday, you're going to loosen the belt loop a couple. No, I mean, it's like, Sunday we're going to do the right thing, but tonight we dine in hell. I mean, that's kind of the. Israel ramps up deadly airstrikes on Gaza after a cease file deal is reached. They need a few days to get it out of their system. From what I understand, they need a few days. You can't go cold turkey on killing. You have to ease off. You got to ease off. You know, when I was in fifth grade, I was coming down a hill in Goshen, New York. It's a. It's a suburb in Rockland County. It might be Putnam, either Putnam or Orange or Rockland county, it doesn't matter. The point is, I was coming down a hill, I did a. I pumped the brakes, I flew off the bike and I got scars on the elbows. Rocks and everything went on the elbow because I pumped the br. And I flew off. I mean, I'm sorry. I jammed on the brakes. I didn't pump them. You got to pump the brake. You got to slow down at a speed that doesn't just jolt you. And I didn't. So Israel's going to have to. You got to give them a minute. They've really been killing now for the span of what, two years? Is it two years of this? A lot of it, right? Almost two years. It's almost two years of them kind of, you know, killing. So they have to Take a little, you know, and hopefully, you know, by Sunday they can kind of like chill. And now, Hamas, remember? Hamas. Hamas is going to let the hostages out. But before that happens, right here it says, Israel, Hamas cease for a deal will go into effect. Too late for Akram Abu Ahmed to see his children again, his family's sole survivor after an Israeli airstrike. Ahmed was sleeping in the area of Gaza City in the early hours of Thursday, celebrating the news of the truce, when he heard a loud sound and he was thrown into the air. Dust and screams around me for Israel to attack. Like it's a party to celebrate the truce and Israel. I mean, it's really, it's really, it's out of line. But also, like, there's a level of irony there that cannot even fully be understood unless you are one of the people at that party having fun. Maybe there's a dance, like kind of like a ceasefire, like, you know, like one of the dances they do. And then there it is. This is going on, everyone's happy. And then you go, hold on, what's that? What's that noise? Look at how happy everyone is then. Then there is a noise and everybody looks at each other and it's like, you know, Dana, da na na na na, da da da, da, da, da, da, da da. It's the curb your enthusiasm music. Because, you know, you're out there celebrating a cease fire and then you get killed during the ceasefire celebration. It's one minute, it's a celebration of a ceasefire. The next minute someone's leg is in your lap and you're like, what is going on? I thought we were done with this. But Israel says, no, no, no, no, no. Sunday. You're a little early. You're a little early. We're starting this Sunday. We are not. Today is not part of it. I wonder if Israel said that. Today is not part of it. We're going to get a few airstrikes in before we start. And they killed 115 people. Well, I'm going to call this right now. I don't know if I'm right and I'm going to say this and people might get angry with me or people might not agree with me. I'm going to make a stunning prediction on this program, on this show, in front of everybody, in front of the world. I'm going to put my name on the line right now. I'm very happy about the ceasefire deal, but. But I'm going to say this. I don't believe I'm putting myself out there. I don't believe this is the end of the problems between these two. I just don't, I just don't. I just don't. They're, call me a cynic, I believe that there's going to be some residual bad blood. I'll say it, I'll say it. I believe personally now it might not be true, I don't know. I'm just saying there could be perhaps potentially, possibly some residual bad blood between these two groups. Because I gotta be honest with you, I just think that even though they have this nice ceasefire, they did. Israel killed 28 children and 31 women in this at the ceasefire party where they all. Hey, by the way, stop going to ceasefire parties. Apparently that's pretty hazardous to your health. Don't do that. Israel and Hamas and it's kind of become a war on the civilians of Gaza though. I mean, let's be honest. I know that it's supposed to be just a war on Hamas, but it feels to me, again an observer, that it is more sort of becoming a war on the civilian because it's there, it's a lot of civilians. Now I know that Israel will say that 4 year old was in Hamas and he might have been, I don't know. I don't know. And that seems to be the argument. Many of these toddlers are in Hamas. But I don't know, I just think there could be, there could be some residual. So right now in Gaza, they say 46,707 people have been killed, about 17,500 children injured more than 109,000 people and missing more than 11,000. Yeah, Israel killed about 1139, injured 8730. With the Israel, that's the Israeli death toll versus the Gaza death toll. Now these death tolls may not be accurate. The missing, clearly the, the missing people in Gaza are probably not thriving is my guess. I guess the. I would, I would add most of the missing to the death toll. It would be what I, if I was, if I was sitting down at the Wynn in Vegas and I was a gambling man and they said, what do you think happened to those missing people in Gaza? I go, well. And then I would move the chips into the dead. There would be, there'd be a table. One thing would say dead, the circle. And I would just take all the missing chips and I'd go, but I'd make a face. It'd be sad. I go, put them there because they're probably no longer with us. That would be my guess. I don't know. They could be thriving. I don't know. I mean, perhaps they're thriving. I don't think so. What are we going to do with these kids? Steve Witkoff, a real estate entrepreneur, went over there and Netanyahu, he said, I'm meeting you on the Sabbath. And Netanyahu is like, well, I'm on the Sabbath. And Witkoff's like, hey, man, I don't give a shit. I don't care what you're doing. I'm also a Jew, but I don't give a fuck. We're getting this thing done. And he went over there and he basically said, listen, there's gonna be hell to pay. We've been a great friend to Israel. You have to be a friend to us. We need a ceasefire right now. Trump is coming in and we're not gonna do this anymore. Witkoff's a friend to Trump. He was golfing with Trump. The second assassination attempt. Witkoff's real estate developer, and he's buddies with Trump, and basically he's new to diplomacy. Witkoff, he hasn't done anything like this before. But Trump was like, you know, you go over there and carry this message to Netanyahu, tell him, we're kind of done here, we're done with this. We cannot have this go on anymore. We need a ceasefire deal. And now Gaza is going to release the hostages. And I'm going to tell you this, and now people are going to get mad at me for saying this. I want grateful hostages when they come out. I want happy hostages, and I want hostages ready to turn the page. I do, I do. Even if you were in the hole for a year or two years, and I know it's not good, and you have psychological issues and things like that, I know things were terrible, but I'm telling you right now, I'm not personally in the mood to do hostage trauma porn on every news show. Call me insensitive, I don't care. I want a happy hostage. Sorry. I want a happy. I want a hostage who's ready to turn the page. I don't want a hostage who. Who's going to marinate in their misfortune in front of all of us. I'm sorry it happened. I didn't do it. But I want a happy hostage. I want a happy hostage. I want. I want. During the first. During the 42 day first phase, 33 of the remaining women, children, elderly and severely ill hostages will be released in exchange for roughly a thousand Palestinian security prisoners. Israel will partially withdraw from Gaza while helping facilitate the entry of 600 trucks of humanitarian aid into the strip each day. The second stage will see the release of the remaining living hostages and conclude with the declaration of a permanent ceasefire. The third phase will see the release of bodies still held by Hamas. And the fourth phase will be Israel nuking Gaza. That's phase four. But I'm. When the hostages come out, and I know this has been a terrible ordeal for them, and I'm not minimizing that. I'm speaking only about the optics and the. I want. I just. I don't. I need. We need to move on from this. And I know the hostages are going to come out and they're going to go on shows and they're going to talk about how terrible this has been, and I understand that, but I'm just asking, please, please, for the sake of moving on, is there any way that we can just, you know, kind of feature the hostages where the. Where they are more positive about their experiences, slightly happier to move on? There's gotta be a few hostages that say, I wasn't doing a ton anyway. There's gotta be a few hostages that go, listen, this was an interesting experience. I don't. I didn't love every part of it. This is what I want the hostages to say. This is what I want them to say. I want them to go, I didn't love every part of this. Obviously, it was something. It came out of nowhere. But it's fascinating, this whole thing, geopolitics, I think it's very interesting. I want a hostage to say something like that. I don't want them to go. And there was rape and there was. I just. I've had enough of the problems over there, seeping into my issues when I'm trying to have a lunch. I want that one hostage to go. I'm telling you right now. I was sitting in a room and they were killing someone next to me. And yes, it was tough, but this whole thing, this labyrinth of tunnels that they would kind of take us from here to there, and a lot of people were scared because they didn't know if they were going to die. But I personally found it kind of interesting. The layout of it, just. The layout of it in general is kind of interesting to me. And then I started thinking, really, about this whole thing. We're in this whole crazy world, you know, One day I'm above ground, next day I'm in a tunnel, now I'm out. And I've learned not to take things so seriously. I hope there's a hostage that comes out who says, I've learned through this whole ordeal to not take things so seriously. I used to get really angry when my wife would burn the breakfast. Now I don't care anymore. It doesn't. You know what I mean? Like, I'm just hoping we find that hostage, we got to find that hostage who's kind of easy come, easy go with it. Where you go now, tell us about your ordeal. And they go, listen, I got to be honest with you. There's a lot of people that were obviously very upset, and I understand that myself. You know, there were times when it wasn't the best, but overall, I think it was a culturally enriching experience. And I feel kind of fine about it. I kind of fine about it. You know, that's all I want. I just want someone to say, there's gonna be a lot of negativity right now, but it's not gonna come from me. It was an interesting time. I met a lot of people. I met a lot of people. Interesting people. And I never would have met those. It's like any experience. I never would have met those people if I wasn't dragged into that tunnel. I never would have met those. If I was not dragged into that tunnel. I never would have met those people. And we're lifelong friends now, by the way. It's also, you've shared an experience with people that, that no one's gonna really have again. Maybe, probably they will. But you've done something so unique. I want to remind all the hostages coming out of the tunnels, if you're okay and alive and you're fine, you've been through some. You've done something so unique and you have such a story. And I think we just got to look at it in a positive way. I don't want to. Let's not drown ourselves in self pity. I want you to say, this was a really pivotal time in my life. What about somebody who comes out, goes, I got a lot of writing done. I got a ton of writing done. And they go, really? What was it like down there? And they go, more well lit than you'd think for a tunnel. I got a lot of writing done. I got a first draft of a novel I'm really proud of. And they go, is it about the ordeal? And they go, no, no, it's young adult fiction because I. It's. I want it to sell. So it's actually a young adult. They're Jewish. They're thinking in a marketing way. They go, it's ya. Is it about the whole Hamas thing? You go, no, it's sort of like a ya thing. You know, it's magical elements, different realms, love, loss, you know, all thing. Oh, it's smart. Well, I wish them well over there. You know, the way I've always felt about it, I've always felt the same way as I do now. And that is that my, my hope, my hope has always been for this topic to stop coming up at dinner when I'm there. That's been my geopolitical ideology is that I hope that everyone shuts their mouth.
