Donald J. Trump

What I say is this overwhelming emotional response.

If you follow this region, we have kind of seen this before, maybe not this intensity over the 20 hostages.

But there have been other times where Israel, working with the Arab nations, working with the Muslim, all parties, including the United States, which has tried to be an intermediary for decades and decades and decades, think you have the framework for peace or think you have a peace deal.

There's been big emotional reactions in Israel in the past, and it just never pans out, does it?

Look, there still exists a vast misunderstanding of two cultures, Islamic culture, Islamic values versus Western culture and Western values.

Israelis and supporters of the United States believe in these peace agreements and peace deals.

I'll give you this piece of land and peace is going to break out.

We'll live happily ever after.

They fail to understand that Islamic goals and values cannot accept Jewish sovereignty over Palestine, cannot accept a Jewish state of any size.

And the Arabs have been fighting militarily to defeat Israel and were unable to defeat it.

And that's why I go into in one of my films about how Anwar Sadat decided to wage a diplomatic strategy against Israel by offering Israel an embassy, essentially an office in a high-rise building in Cairo,

in exchange for the Sinai.

And he's tried to sell this model to the rest of the Arab world, the Egyptians, saying, look, let's just all get together.

We'll offer peace.

You can have peace with us and withdraw from all these lands.

And that would turn Israel into an indefensible country.

And people probably wouldn't want to live there because it couldn't be defended.

So it's a different model for the same goal, which is to defeat and eliminate the Jewish state.

And I think those are the forces that are going to quickly align in Sharm el-Sheikh to demand that Israel create a Palestinian state.

And this is the calm before the storm politically because their goal is to politically defeat Israel as a result of this agreement.