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Well, folks, it's been an absolutely extraordinary weekend here in Israel. I came here to do the holidays with my family over here. There are a lot of days that I've been taking off. You may have noticed those are the Jewish holidays. But while we are here, obviously, peace has now broken out.
A ceasefire has been negotiated by the president of the United States and his team between Israel and the remnants of Hamas, most importantly, to release the 20 live hostages and 28 dead bodies that were being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And this is a near miraculous move. by the president of the United States.
He was able to mobilize the entire world, including the Arab world, to put pressure on Hamas to release these 20 live hostages. And it's an extraordinary thing, I mean, truly. Unless you spend time over in Israel, you can't really understand the intensity of the feeling around the hostages. I think that most other countries look at this sort of situation.
They say, okay, you have a terrorist group that took hostages. Are you really willing to go house to house for two years instead of just aerially bombing the place in order to get those hostages out? Are you really willing to sacrifice legitimately hundreds of soldiers to death and wounding in order to protect hostages and try to save those hostages, what are you willing to do?
And the answer in Israel is yes. That is the thing that Israel has been willing to do. And this has been the scimitar hanging over the head of the Israelis since the very beginning of the war. Israel has had to stop and start the war half a dozen times. Israel has had to take measures that no sane country would have to take in order to try and ensure the safety of its hostages.
Israel has had to move slowly and meticulously. and risk the hatred of the world in order for those hostages to get out. And so, the fact that the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were somehow able to put together a deal in which the 20 hostages who were alive came out all at once, which is what happened on Monday morning,
And they were able to do that without allowing Hamas to fully reconstitute in the Gaza Strip. Israel is still present. The IDF is still present in some 53% of the Gaza Strip. Right now, actually, the situation on the ground in Gaza is that Hamas is having firefights with a bunch of local militia groups over who is going to control Gaza next.
And in the end, there will have to be some sort of heavy hand put on the remnants of Hamas, whether that happens from an international group, the way President Trump is talking, whether that happens via the IDF. We don't know the answer to that yet. What we do know
is that Israel's long national nightmare with regard to these hostages is now effectively over because all 20 of them came out on Monday. And that's an extraordinary credit to President Trump. Well, Team Trump was on the ground over the weekend. Jared Kushner, who is very involved with these hostage negotiations, he was on the ground.
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