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WarRoom Special Coverage: Trump’s Mission To Israel

13 Oct 2025

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Chapter 1: What significant event is President Trump leading in Israel?

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Dead of the night, when the world is sleeping, Real America's Voice is live. This Monday, 2 a.m. Eastern, history takes flight. Donald J. Trump arrives in Israel, leading a high-stakes mission for peace and the long-awaited release of hostages.

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After months of war and heartbreak, a breakthrough, a ceasefire, hostage releases, and the first steps towards a lasting Jerusalem Accord, Steve Bannon leads Real America's Voice live coverage, joined by powerful voices from Jerusalem as the world watches this historic moment unfold. From conflict to compromise, from division to deliverance, This is leadership on the world stage.

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This is history in motion. This is Real America's Voice. Rav presents Trump's triumphant mission to Israel.

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Chapter 2: What breakthroughs are discussed regarding the ceasefire and hostages?

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Live coverage begins this Monday at 2 a.m. Eastern, only on Real America's Voice. This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.

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I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

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And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann. It's Monday, 13 October, in the year of our Lord 2025. It is Columbus Day here in the United States of America, of course. Dramatic. Let's go ahead and put the footage. We've got some amazing footage of...

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Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. We've got footage of Reem Air Force Base where the hostages are actually currently seven have already been released. Also other spots in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. We have with us this morning, we're going to have Kurt Mills from the American Conservative. Our own Ben Harnwell.

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international editor live in Rome, the great Jack Posobiec pulling an overnight shift here with us. Joel Gilbert in Los Angeles, an expert filmmaker, an expert on the Middle East. But I want to start with Matt Faraci, who's actually live in Jerusalem. Matt, put in context what this day, this is over a two-year war, right?

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coming off the most brutal slaughter the Jews have had since the Holocaust, very contentious, this war in Jerusalem, in Israel, kind of torn about these, the nation's torn apart really about the hostages and how the situation was handled, how the war was prosecuted. But what does today mean with the President of the United States about to arrive in,

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in Jerusalem on Air Force One to meet Netanyahu, welcome some hostages back, and then address the Israeli nation at the Knesset, sir. Good morning, Steve. Great to be with you. We are here in Jerusalem on Jaffa Street. This place is going to be banging here in a bit. This is one of the sort of most busy places in Jerusalem where Israelis come.

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I was reminded this morning, Steve, what a small country this is and how everybody has been impacted by this. The camera operator that I'm working with this morning We were looking at some of the hostages being released, and two of the guys are called the Berman twins, and he worked with them before. And he knows a lot of people in the company that they worked with, very respected guys.

Chapter 3: How is the emotional response of the Israeli people characterized?

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I think it's going to hold. I think people are... A lot of reasons why it's going to hold. But I think people are tired of it. It's been... It's been centuries, okay? Not just recent. It's been centuries. I think people are tired of it. Yeah, the ceasefire is going to hold, and we'll see where it holds.

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1089.308 - 1090.909 Sheva Balkany

What will Gaza look like a year from now?

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The international stabilization force that's part of the... It's going to be a good, strong force. When will that be ready?

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I don't think it's going to have a big impact, because I think barely we're going to have to use it. I think people are going to behave. Everybody knows their place. It's going to be great for everybody. It's going to be great for the surrounding countries, Arab, Muslim, all of them. It's going to be great for Israel. Everybody is happy. And I think it's going to stay that way, Peter.

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And if this peace, if the ceasefire does hold, how long until we get to the part of the 20-point peace plan where developers can go in and make Gaza the Riviera of the Middle East? Well, I don't know about the Riviera for a while, because you take a look at what you have. You have to get people taken care of first. But

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uh it's going to start really essentially immediately i mean they're going to have to start by removing a lot of the structures that you see that are down to the ground i mean it's a very it's blasted this is like a demolition site almost the entire site is so you have to you have to get rid of what you have there You have structures that are very dangerous. They're falling down.

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If they haven't fallen, they're going to fall down of their own volition. So that process, Peter, is going to start pretty much immediately.

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In a year from now, in your view, that's very quick.

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But over the years, it'll look very good. It'll be it's got the first chance it's had in centuries of being peaceful. It's always been a very, very strange area it's always been loaded up with problems religious problems uh problems like no other place probably in the world and i think it's gonna now it's gonna normalize all you can say if it normalizes that would be fantastic

Chapter 4: What are the implications of President Trump's visit for future peace negotiations?

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Shortly thereafter, he said, they said, well, Netanyahu said last night in Hebrew in this video that the war continues on, although the Gaza part's down. There's one of the posters about President Trump. You're seeing these all over now, and particularly in areas of Israel that President Trump hasn't been particularly popular.

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So, Kurt, he basically said, hey, he's a wartime president, leaving open Netanyahu's futures in this entire thing. He also was adamant when told that Netanyahu had had this video addressed to the people in Israel.

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about the war goes on, although the Gaza part of it is done, and this is part of the greater Israel project that has gotten so many people here in the United States, quite frankly, outraged about dragging us into it. And he said the war is over. What do you think the president is messaging right now to Netanyahu and to that kind of center-right and right-wing party in Israel?

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I think he's absolutely messaging that he wants this to be finito, that he wants this to be the last word on the subject, potentially for his presidency. He doesn't want Benjamin Netanyahu coming back to Washington every other month, as it literally seems that he has to Washington. He doesn't want to be making a third trip to the region.

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This is, of course, the second trip after May this October this year to solve these problems. Trump thinks that this should be a justifiable and durable You see a lot of you see the president's empathetic streak kind of coming through here, which I believe is an underrated part of his personality.

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You see Trump talking a lot more about history, which is not necessarily something that he does every day. And I think you have a general desire to be rid of the Israel issue for a while.

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that Netanyahu is on his own for elections in 2026, and that US Republican American support, Donald Trump's support is at an end.

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We'll see how that goes. I don't think the president is ignorant of who he's dealing with. I think there's already signs from Netanyahu that he might try to scutter the second phase of this deal.

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And I think there's a fact to try to avoid that.

Chapter 5: What insights are shared about the political dynamics between Trump and Netanyahu?

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No, no, no, no. As enjoyable as it is to watch the line of ceremony and the vassals lining up. I think that was the Speaker of the Parliament, right, the Speaker of the Knesset, who tried to crack a joke saying, I believe you two guys know one another. You're absolutely right. It was frosty.

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6500.65 - 6529.56 Joel Gilbert

After signing the book, I noticed he didn't shake the hand of the Prime Minister standing to his right either. So there was somewhat of a scowl going on. That was absolutely my reading of this as well. We're going to find out, I suppose, in due course, exactly what the conversations have been. But you know what? My summary of what we're seeing today would be this.

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It's the management of expectations. Whether today is a success or not, is perceived as a success or not, depends, I think, it will revolve entirely around the management of expectations. So, look, we're celebrating the release of the hostages. We're celebrating the confirmation of phase one. That is what I would say requires our appreciation and our applause.

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6557.26 - 6580.371 Joel Gilbert

If we go beyond that, I think there might be potential down the road for slight... I don't know, inverted commas, disappointment. But these are stages that we'll take in due course. Obviously, the status situation is not going to go away. And I think that's fundamentally where the issues are. Can I close, Steve, before handing back to you saying this?

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I don't trust Bibi and I don't trust Hamas either. I don't trust either of them. It's going to be in both of their interests, I think, to try to frustrate and create obstacles to this.

6594.123 - 6621.723 Donald J. Trump

yeah hang on for a second um you saw uh Ivanka and Jared right in back of the press I think I saw Susie Wiles too it's interesting Kurt Mills that uh Marco's not there uh Pete Hex is not there it looks like the entourage is is really Witkoff um the uh Jared and Ivanka and Jared Erling and Witkoff being the lead negotiators here.

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I don't see a lot of other of the president's cabinet or others with him. I believe Monica Crowley, the ambassador of protocol, is there, but I don't see any Marco. I think that's I think that's fairly.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of the hostage release for Israel and Hamas?

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Of course, you get the press. Let's hear the press. I want to hear the press shout the questions as they always do. Let's go ahead and cut the audio up.

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Mr. President!

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Mr. President!

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What would happen if Hamas does not comply with these?

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What would happen? What would happen if Hamas does not comply with your plan, with this army? Mr. President.

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You know, Joel,

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People in the United States have been quite concerned about the security around all this. And I'll be honest with you. I think this is way too confusing and way too, it looks like, unmanageable. I mean, I just think there's too many people around, too much media around. I don't get this coming into Israel on the spur of the moment. Joel, you first and then Kurt. But I really...

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We're just taking the fee from people. But, man, I just don't. That right there looked like they're just winging it. They're making it up as they go along. Joe Gilbert, your thoughts. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm very nervous when I see that many people crowded around the president from so many different directions. Don't forget, a lot of these people have weapons that are authorized to have weapons.

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But who knows if somebody has a beef? So I get a little nervous when there's not enough space between the president and a large crowd. What occurred to me just watching this is this whole spectacle is based on misunderstanding. I recall that I visited Israel, and Gaza was a pretty peaceful place at one time.

Chapter 7: How does the media coverage affect public perception of the conflict?

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But Israel gave up Gaza to the PLO terror group under the guise of the idea that peace would break out, that all they really wanted... was to have their own territory without Israelis and there would be peace. And people cheered and they had the square and they sang songs and they danced.

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And immediately it just fell apart because the Israelis fundamentally did not understand that the Islamic world and the Palestinian Arabs did not want to accept Israel in any size or circumstance. And I believe that attitude remains the same today. And that's what they're going to encounter in the future.

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But it's all a result of this fundamental misunderstanding is why they had the war and why Trump is even there today. Ben Hornwell, I'm going to go to Kurt in a second, but man, I didn't like what I just saw. I'll be brutally frank with you. I would want this thing much – I want it high and tight when the president shows up. Remember, we went to the – Middle East in May of 2017.

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We worked on the security for months and months and months. The president, this decision was just made the other day, but I don't like the fact you show up, you got all these people milling around, you're doing all these activities, then you just walk into a mob of reporters and, you know, a couple of micro friends. I see they cut that off, but...

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Man, somebody's got to be, you know, I think somebody's got to say what is going on here. There's been two assassination attempts on this guy. He's all we got, right? You don't have any, no backup to him if we lose Trump now. I got to tell you, I am very concerned and disappointed with what we've seen. I just think it looks very shoddy ever since they got to the Knesset. Ben Harnwell.

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Yeah.

6903.29 - 6930.353 Joel Gilbert

Well, Steve, what's the underlying assumption here of what you're saying? Is it not the illustration of the fact that even though we're here today with all the crowds applauding the peace that is achieved so far, there is still the awareness that there is the potential that there will be agents who will try to frustrate this. That's really the subtext of what you're saying, right?

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And that just illustrates, I think, how precarious the present position is. And when you say there's no one who can replace President Trump, that's absolutely right.

Chapter 8: What are the key takeaways from the discussions about future peace efforts?

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And it goes back to what we were saying before, that the feat of today, the achievement of today is President Trump.

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trump's success and his alone uh because of his force of will his force of charisma and as you say his force of personality this is his day um and that that of course makes us that that's why the precariousness of this situation is there because if he weren't there then the situation would rapidly

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dissolve once again and that's the subtext of what you're saying that's the importance of the security issue here because we all know we're all watching the feed here we're all sort of applauding and watching we know that there are that there is probably going to be some pockets somewhere of people who will do what they can to frustrate this and I think that's the confirmation of that right the fact of this uneasiness

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The uneasiness as you see the chaos and the people milling on. In what, of course, the Israeli parliament is going to be a very highly secure zone anyway. So the assumption is even within that environment, there could be malign forces waiting to strike. It illustrates how precarious this is.

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Yeah.

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Just when he shows up, you know, it's not a photo op for the press. By the way, they cut the feed. We're just taking the feed that they're providing. You saw the feed right there was it was pretty chaotic.

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I mean, just a grunch of people around the president walking down that red carpet, going to what I guess were microphones that were going to, I don't know, say a few words and and have a press gag. I just don't think it's just not the right time to do that. The president ought to get into the, like he goes to the capital of the United States. He ought to show up.

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There ought to be a formal greeting for him. You know, sign the book, but then you're taken to the back room. There's no kind of milling around. That hallway had, the hallway had, you know, a thousand people, it looked like, just kind of milling around, you know, wanting to see the president and the media right there. So it was very... you know, very, I think you can say confusing.

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And when the president of the United States goes to a place like Israel right now, and particularly to Jerusalem, given the, you know, there's reports already in Gaza that, you know, some of the clans down there, they're having some payback already to people they say are collaborated with the Israelis. It's a very volatile situation. You know, we're a long way from peace.

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