Matt Frei

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718 appearances 13 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 17 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Peace Plan rejected by Israel for Gaza · 10 Aug 2026 podcast

I mean, the the sh the stark reality that is storing on Donald Trump and that will probably uh make his blood run a little bit more quickly through those veins is that he has been humiliated both by his best friend in the region, Israel, and by the regime in Tehran that he was supposed to have completely annihilated.

The fact that the Iranians have also rejected the deal that he put on the table.

Uh through various intermediaries.

for shipping to, you know, go through the Strait uh of Hormuz on the southern route, and then some shipping on the northern route.

And then of course the middle route doesn't work at the moment because there are too many sea mines, Iranian sea mines there.

But the fact that the Iranian regime has also said, Well, we will only sign up to a new, a refreshed memorandum of understanding.

If you pay us war reparations, which is not gonna happen, if you reduce your you know, your your military presence in the Gulf.

You know, which is not gonna happen because that's America's really only leverage on the Iranians at the moment.

Uh and if you um, you know, lift all sanctions, which is the ultimate carrot.

I mean, the Americans do find themselves, considering their firepower and what they set out to do, and of course measured against the bombast of Donald Trump in a very humiliating position.

Well, yes and no.

I mean the Hamas has made some moves, of course, and the Israelis have made some moves, although they've um both sides have gone back on what they originally set out to to do.

So remember the the the um ceasefire deal was signed, you know, in October or so almost a year ago.

In that year, Hamas has appeared on the streets of or whatever is left of the streets of Gaza in full uniform, brandishing their weapons.

You could say it's not a great look, you know, you're rubbing it into, you know, the open Israeli wounds.

And the Israelis have actually occupied more land than they had before.

So they now occupy seventy percent of the Gaza Strip.

as opposed to fifty percent of the Gaza Strip.

They're thinking of setting up these special military settlements, which then could become civilian settlements in the way that we used to have in the Gaza Strip before Israel's withdrawal into two thousand and six.

So and and of course the Israelis have continued bombing with one thousand two hundred

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