Joe Gilbert

Hi, Steve.

Thanks for having me.

So the feeling in Jerusalem today and in Israel is unbridled jubilation.

Everybody is so happy, excited that their family is being returned.

And I do want to point out that this is a distinction between Israel and Hamas, that there is such a cherished feeling for the sanctity of life.

If you look at the numbers, only it's 20 living hostages for being exchanged for $2,000

prisoners and murderers.

So if you look at the footage of everything that's being shown here, every single person in Israel is celebrating today, is celebrating America, loving Trump, dancing like their own brother, son is returning because they are.

Oh, yeah.

And everybody that I've spoken to is not happy about that at all.

I think there's been a divide where they are celebrating the return of their family.

Israel really was stuck in the heaviness and pain of the separation of the hostages and the brutal...

torture that these hostages were going through.

And bringing them home was essential for Israel to move to the next step, which is protecting their people.

And that next step is going to be harder now that these 2,000 murderers are released.

135 of the 2,000 are going to international countries.

So that's something for the international community to keep in mind, because these are not

thieves on the street these are people that thrive on um murdering people that don't are that are not aligned with their philosophy which is western values which is america which is everything that we stand for joe joe um gilbert

inherited a really disastrous situation from the last administration.

And he did an amazing job in getting the hostages back and moving forward.