On today's show, Sean Hannity dives into the historic peace deal just brokered between Israel and Hamas, with the direct involvement of President Donald Trump. Citing confirmation from the White House, Sean reports all hostages are set for release and Israeli troops will withdraw to agreed borders in the first phase, paving the way for lasting peace in a region defined by conflict. Trump, appearing on Hannity, frames this breakthrough as the result of "peace through strength," emphasizing decisive leadership and the Trump Doctrine. Guest highlights include insights from on-the-ground reporters like Trey Yingst and reflections on the international acclaim for Trump's achievement from European leaders to spontaneous Nobel Prize chants in both Israel and Gaza. This moment, Sean argues, marks an unprecedented shift in Middle East policy and global peacemaking, showing the impact of bold American action.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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You know, blessed are the peacemakers.
You think of our entire lives.
I know there have been attempts.
Um if you read the the um the autobiography, which I've read of Anwaris Adat, um, an attempt, you know, then the Camp David Accords, and the, you know, we really got this started in Trump's first term with the Abraham Accords and had he had two consecutive terms.
I'm I don't know.
Maybe things work out the way they're supposed to work out in God's timing.
And the war in Gaza now, it's signed, sealed, and delivered the deal, the first phase of it.
And that means that the White House and the president confirming to me last night that this first phase of this deal with Israel and Hamas is finished.
President wrote last night on Truth Social.
I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan, and this means that all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps towards a strong, durable, everlasting peace.
All parties would will be treated fairly.
This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all the surrounding nations, and the United States of America.
And we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, who work with us to make this historic, unprecedented event happen.
And he wrote, Blessed are the peace peacemakers.
You know, the one thing that is really happening very, very quickly in less than a year being in office is what I imagine, but even bigger than I imagine.
And we are living in a time where you're getting to watch history unfold with the most transformational, consequential president in our lifetime.
Uh this is not your average politician.
You know, most presidents would sit there and wring their hands and advisors and should we bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
Donald Trump just is instinctive, decisive, is guided by his core beliefs, the Trump doctrine, which we'll go over here in a second, and the the president uh uh joined me on TV last night to talk about this this historic deal.
If if you look back at this conflict, if I mean we could go back hundreds of years, but um I'm gonna I'm gonna let's just start at the UN partition plan in 1948.
And the formation, and again, this is this is the the homeland of the Jewish people historically goes back forever.
And this is their homeland.
And when that deal was made, uh, you know, it was uh Ben Gurion, the the first prime minister of Israel reached out his hand of quote neighborliness uh to all of the neighboring countries and and offered his hand in peace and was invaded the next day.
And you know, it's been nonstop war and conflict, you know, the the six-day war, Yom Kapoor War, I mean, it just 67, 73, and maybe more importantly, what life has what what the Israeli people have become accustomed to,
and that is being surrounded by enemies and having tens and tens and tens of thousands of rockets fired into their country by radical Islamists that have even written in their stated charters the destruct the call for the destruction of Israel and the desire to wipe Israel off the map.
And led by Iran and you know, chanting death to Israel, death to America, and this radicalization, and this is their everyday life.
This is this is normal for them.
I've had many trips to Israel that I've taken.
I've learned a lot on all of those trips.
We have reported there numerous times.
Uh Linda, you were on a couple of them, right?
We would broadcast our show on 102, uh, what is it?
1027?
102.1 Tel Aviv.
1021.
Yeah, Tel Aviv.
And we even did shows from the United States for our our partners there at 102.
And you know, we were there.
We were in these underground, you know, terror tunnels.
We went to border cities.
I keep telling the story.
I was the one city Starot sticks with me because I learned so much in that one city.
And by the time we had gotten there, maybe it was 2015 or something, whatever year it was, I don't remember.
16, I know I went back once when President Trump was president in his first term and we did that trip from the Mediterranean in a helicopter all the way up to the the old city and we've taken tours of the old city.
I mean you have the convergence of the world's religions right there in this one small little area and I mean the history is so deep and rich and I I had the honor Dory Gold who recently passed away gave me a tour of the old city once and explained the Armenian sector, the Christian sector and the Muslim sector and the Jewish sector and you know there's so much history there.
It's an just an incredible experience.
What shocked me and Linda watched this and she just rolled her eyes I was shocked that so many people in Israel when we went to the wall recognized me and came up to me and we had we had a massive crowd around me.
And then I had another tour with Ron Dermer which was pretty amazing as well.
And what life is like when I went to the border city of Starrot and and you can see Gaza with the naked eye was it just takes your breath away but this has been life for the Israelis.
That one little border town by the time I had gotten there and they've been hit with many more thousands of rockets since had 10,000 rockets fired into one small border city and this is the city I described that has the underground playgrounds bunker playgrounds for kids that can't play outside because the distance is so short it takes 12 seconds for a rocket fired out of Gaza into this border town and so you can't have your kids playing outside and
that's everyday life for them.
And I went to the police department at the time and they, they literally had laid out missiles recovered over the years and the lethality of them.
I mean, they just became bigger and more lethal and more deadly every single time.
And then we went one day, we went to a restaurant and we came back the next day and there was a car in the, in the parking lot that had been bombed out the night before.
we went to a kibbutz and went back to that kibbutz the next day and the night before it got hit with a rocket because it was during a time of conflict and that's everyday life and we're next to one of the Patriot missiles at the time what is it the Iron Dome missile sorry at the time and you know got to see it fired in real time and taking out a missile and in real time.
It was incredible technology to watch.
And you think back, Democrats at the time mocked Ronald Reagan for, say, in Star Wars when he brought forth a strategic defense.
And that's when Reagan walked away from Gorbachev at Reykjavik over the issue of strategic defense.
The former Soviet Union didn't want it.
And they still ended up making a deal in, you know, very similar circumstances in some ways.
But what the president has been able to do here is is create an opportunity for a peace.
Now, the first phase of this, thank God these hostages that now have been held for two years and three days are all gonna be released.
There's 48 of them, 20 of them we believe to be alive, and the bodies of those that are not alive will be returned to their families.
Our prayers are with them.
Our prayers are with all these hostages.
I can't imagine how you just return to regular life after being held in captivity for two years like this, but there are reasons that this happens happened and lessons to be learned here.
I think one of the biggest lessons is You know, these Arab nations for decades have been unwilling participants.
They they have wanted no part in being part of the solution to resolve this never ending conflict.
But President Trump, and I was on that trip with him when he went to the Gulf States, and that's when I went to Saudi Arabia, and that's when I went to uh Qatar and I went to the United Arab Emirates, and there I was in Abu Dhabi.
Linda was not allowed on that trip for reasons that will go unspecified at this time, but um uh it was it was an incredible learning experience.
I saw every Fortune 500 company in this room in Riyadh that it just blew me away.
And the president forged relationships with these countries, walked away with seven trillion dollars and committed monies and v investments for the next the next four years, maybe ten million trillion, I don't remember the actual number is crazy.
But they want to be partners with Donald Trump, and Donald Trump was able to forge that relationship when the president has always had Israel's back because they've been a victim of radical Islamic terrorism, uh, that created a bond with him and Prime Minister Netanyahu that he was able to persuade the prime minister to take concessions that were probably very difficult for Israel to take, but do it in the name of peace and the possibility of peace and the return of these hostages.
I mean, I'll play tape later this hour of there's never been a point where the people in Gaza and the people of Israel are both celebrating this deal and praising Donald J. Trump because that's what happened when they woke up to the news this morning.
And the probably most powerful component in all of this is the Trump doctrine.
And the Trump doctrine is rooted in the principles of peace through strength.
And it's amazing that there are people that consider themselves smart and they're not that smart uh that have no understanding of what the Trump doctrine is.
Because when the president says no forever wars, yeah, I agree with the president, number one, but uh it doesn't mean you will never use military force.
There is a proper use of military force.
And, you know, i it when you look at what the president has done, well, he wiped out the ISIS caliphate.
It had to be wiped out.
And he did it, and it really didn't get a lot of attention, but he he wiped the whole thing out that grew under Obama and Biden.
He wiped out Solomani on that tarmac.
He wiped out al Baghdadi and associates.
He also dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan.
And then in his second term, he gave the Iranians a choice, 50 days to choose peace, and they chose not to take the window of opportunity he provided them.
That resulted in Israel taking out the defense systems and taking out their battery systems and ballistic missile systems, and then it really need they needed the might and power of the U.S. because they were one, three, four months away from getting a nuclear weapon.
And that that radicalism, that chance death to Israel, death to America, that's not a that that's not a chance the world should ever have taken.
And I can tell you that the Arab world, and that means Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Jordan and the Emirates and all these other countries, they were breathing a sigh of relief that Donald Trump took out those nuclear sites as much as Israel was.
It was a threat to the entire region.
But when he took out those sites, that sent a clear message that he will use force for good when necessary, but he's gonna try everything in his power to come up with a peace deal.
And he did.
And then the president had Prime Minister Netanyahu recently at the White House, and he said they can do it the hard way or they can do it the easy way.
And and Prime Minister Netanyahu got the green light with Donald Trump in the White House that if they don't take this, this was their last chance that Bibi would do it the hard way and would wipe him out.
And then when they first rejected this opportunity, Donald Trump used the word you will be obliterated.
They got the message.
And the more important part of this is they believed the message.
What is the lesson that peace through strength backed up by examples that you're willing to use America America's power and force for good, and you don't give out idle threats was believed.
And without all of that together, I don't believe this would have would have been possible.
I don't think this would have happened.
I don't think this moment would occur.
I don't think this opportunity would exist for a lasting peace.
Now we have Arab countries partnering in a plan for peace.
Now you have Hamas now has to be disarmed.
There has to be security guarantees for Israel.
We're in the trust but verify stage of this peace negotiation.
But you know, as if all goes well by Monday, these hostages will be reunited with their families, thank God.
The ones that are alive and their families will have the bodies back of their their dead loved ones, which again, we pray for those families.
Um amazing times we're living in.
I don't think there's anyone else besides Donald John Trump that could have pulled this off.
Just don't believe it's possible.
25 now to the top of the hour.
Tollfree our numbers 800, 941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, you know, today is probably the appropriate day to really, you know, talk about the partnership that we've had with the IFCJ, the international fellowship of Christians and Jews.
You know, it's been two years and and what, three days now uh since the all of these Israelis were murdered and taken hostage, murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheading, it all happened that day, and now we're on the precipice of these remaining hostages being released and hopefully a path to peace, a lasting peace in the Middle East.
Um but they have been steadfast because in the process, we take it for granted.
We're not living with tens and tens and tens of thousands of rockets being fired into our country every day.
I think if people understood the conditions on the ground, uh they probably have a very different view.
I think there's a lot of ignorance out there, unfortunately.
But they have been there providing all the humanitarian assistance to all of the victims of all of these conflicts and all of these rocket attacks, uh, and they've been doing it for decades, and they're providing all the humanitarian assistance, and that's food and and water and medicine and clothing and shelter, you name it.
And united in faith, Christians in America have been standing with Israel in their battle against people that have pledged their their destruction, that it's their mission.
They want to destroy this country.
And anyway, that's what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has done.
Um they will help in the rebuilding process, and hopefully we can put an end to living under the threat of constant rocket fire.
And anyway, um, for all of you that have been so generous in helping out people as they fight for their survival, thank you.
And thanks to the people at the IFCJ for doing such a great job.
And if you can donate and you want to be part of their flags for fellowship to combat the rise of anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress, college campuses worldwide in the punditry class, uh, please join them.
Iforg.
That's their website.
It's IFCJ.org today.
Um let me give you a couple of things that have happened.
I mean, uh, Trey Yank said this last night in a report on Hannity.
He said, and he's been reporting from Israel in the Middle East in the middle of wars.
I mean, man, he's he's he's seen it all.
He's a great guy.
And he said, never in his lifetime had he heard the people in Israel and the people of Gaza both chanting and celebrating the announcement of this peace deal.
Israelis chanting the Nobel Prize for Donald Trump.
Now, I want to be clear about this.
They're gonna make an announcement, I believe, at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
Um let me check.
Um, I wrote it down.
I can find it here.
Um but I want you to just know something because I think this is very, very important.
So anyway, the Nobel Committee announces the winner for last year.
That's 2024.
Uh I'm pretty sure, based on sources, I have that Donald Trump is one of three finalists.
There's a chance that he might get it, and he should get it because of all the other conflicts he's helped, you know, bring an end to.
But I don't want you to get your hopes up.
Because the, you know, all these organizations are so politically biased, it's ridiculous.
But, you know, we'll play for you later.
Israelis chanting Nobel Prize for Trump.
Gazan's chanting Trump's name after this peace deal was announced.
The president talking to hostage families after the announcement, telling them we expect the hostages home on Monday.
I mean, even David Ignatius over at the Washington Post hailing Trump for achieving this peace deal, which Biden couldn't do on Liberal Joe.
That's a little surprising.
The Israeli national news calls uh the hostage release deal a miracle.
Uh they have weighed in.
Hamas finally agreeing to do this.
Well, it was either that or obliterate.
That's, you know, they pushed it to the as far as they could push it.
And, you know, but to watch the people in Gaza and the people in Israel all chanting Trump's name is pretty remarkable.
It's uh it's a incredible moment for our country.
European leaders, they have weighed in, they're hailing President Trump for pulling off this Mideast peace deal.
Um, all over you.
The European Commission president, European Parliament president, the Italian Prime Minister, the Dutch Prime Minister, and many others.
The president just finished meeting with the Finnish president, by the way.
Um, all of them saying the same thing.
The Australian chancellor, you know, all saying the same thing, praising uh Emmanuel Macron, who's been leading the push to recognize a Palestinian state.
No, the first thing that has to happen is security guarantees have to be.
If you don't want this to happen again, Israel's gonna need security guarantees, and there's got to be a disarmament there.
Hamas can't keep firing rockets that are getting larger and larger and more lethal into Israel.
Anyway, David Ignatius, I mentioned, columnist, Washington Post praising the president on Liberal Joe.
Who would have ever thought that?
New York Times praising President Trump's Mideast peace deal as a quote, major accomplishment.
Uh the president may travel to the Middle East amid these, you know, final negotiations.
Interestingly, the squad members who called for an end to so-called genocide in Gaza, all of a sudden are silent in light of this peace deal.
Many of the lawmakers demanding a ceasefire in Gaza over the past two years.
This this silence is now deafening.
Haven't heard from you know, two years ago after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel.
Remember Democratic Congresswoman Taleb blasting Joe Biden saying this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a ceasefire and help de-escalate.
And now that Trump negotiated a real deal, securing the release of the remaining hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Nothing to say about the sitting president.
AOC, another frequent voice calling for a ceasefire.
Our silence is deafening.
And I can go through the list.
Congressman Jaypal, you know, not commented since Trump announced the deal.
Who in March joined colleagues outside the Capitol calling for a ceasefire and an end to Netanyahu's campaign.
Uh also quiet.
You know, Democratic Minnesota representative Bethley McCollum said in March, Trump needs to quit his bombastic rhetoric and work to return Israel and Hamas to the negotiating table.
He's not released a statement.
Congresswoman Omar, no statement.
Chucky Schumer, he praised the peace deal, but didn't mention Donald Trump.
He's he has no idea his days are done.
He's finished.
He's a leader in name only.
He's not even a leader of nothing.
Hakeem Jeffries got schooled on CNBC today, like he got schooled by Mike Lawler.
Uh we'll check in with uh Senator Langford about that in the next hour.
But um, one anti-house Democrat Dan Goldman refused to credit the president for the Mideast Peace Deal, says the agreement came together somehow, some way.
Really?
Somehow, some way.
Just happened magically on its own.
No, those things don't happen on its own.
That's the first phase.
Uh Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also weighing in on X, a great day for Israel.
Tomorrow I will convene the government to approve the agreement and bring all of our dear hostages home.
I thank the heroic soldiers of the IDF and all the security forces.
Thanks to thanks to whose courage and sacrifice we have reached this day.
I thank from the depths of my heart, President Trump and his team for their mobilization for this sacred mission of releasing our hostages.
With the help of the Almighty, together we will continue to achieve all our goals and expand peace with our neighbors.
With God's help, we will bring them all home.
Pretty amazing.
It's a big deal.
This is a big deal.
Why is he doing the same thing with Russia and Europe?
And I'll tell you what's happening with Russia.
You know, in many of their regions now, people uh they have gas lines, you know, miles long because Ukraine doesn't have handcuffs on them anymore.
And it's not a uh proxy war being fought by Biden.
And, you know, there Donald Trump is not giving weapons.
He's selling weapons to NATO.
They're providing it to Europe.
It's their continent.
And now they've been striking the refineries of the Russians, and they have done so very effectively.
And hopefully, you know, that will continue.
But the world is changing here.
And it's changing in large part because of one man and all the things that I said.
Um President uh Prime Minister Netanyahu called for President Trump to receive the Peace Prize.
Again, the one that's coming out tomorrow is for 2024.
Do I think the president should get it?
Yeah, I do.
He's been involved in seven peace deals.
Rwanda, the Congo, Israel, and Iran and the you know Armenia and Serbia and Kosovo and you know, all these places.
Did you see uh Linda Greta Thunberg used an Israeli hostage in a post about Palestinian prisoners suffering?
Like I love it when liberals tell the truth by accident.
It's a wonderful day.
Good for you, Greta.
You finally got one right.
It is terrible and awful, and it is terrorist actions.
Yeah, later we're gonna get to at the top of the next hour.
Hakeem Jeffries got just creamed on CNBC this morning.
Yesterday he had a shouting match with Mike Lawler.
Do we have a small cut of that or do we have the long cut of that?
I don't know which one we have.
Uh let's play a little of it because it just goes on for four minutes.
I voted, I voted for a clean CR to keep the government open and funded.
You're voted to shut it down.
Yeah, leader, with all your respect.
You're the one why you playing this.
You're the one.
Why would you voted to shut the government down?
Actually, you know that's not true.
It's head.
You voted to shut the government down.
Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the president.
Right, and you're smart enough to know.
No.
Do you need 60 votes in this house?
Your one big ugly bill.
Reconciliation, which you did with the IRA.
That really reduced inflation.
Are you trying to elevate yourself?
Because you're afraid about myself.
No, I'm not going to lose re-election.
But you spent 42 million dollars last night.
I've indulged you.
I've given you your 15 minutes.
You haven't answered any of the questions.
You're a complete and total embarrassment.
Yeah.
You're embarrassing yourself in your district right now, and you're going down to defeat.
Good luck.
I doubt Mike Lawler is going down on defeat.
I think his stock just went up big time, actually.
Um and then Hakim Jeffries, leader in name only, went on CNBC, and the guy's like, you lost the election.
They passed the bill.
You're demanding 1.5 trillion, including money for illegal immigrants, taxpayer money for health care.
Are you crazy?
The City University of New York graduate center.
Get this.
They're offering an English course titled Global Antifa, focusing on students taking an active role in sometimes violent far left, this far left movement to fight conservatives in the name of anti fascism.
The course focuses on, quote, militant co-research, a collaborative methodology in which researchers become active participants in a political movement while conducting research.
You've got to be kidding me.
I'm not making this up.
This is in the Washington Times.
Our friend Kerry Pickett put this out.
Required coursework obtained by defending education under the state's public information law includes completing research projects that contribute to the world of global movements fighting fascism.
The syllabus reveals an insidious side of academia where professors use this, you know, time honored tradition of academic freedom as a cover to indoctrinate these kids into far-left anti-fascist ideology, said Ryan Staley, who is the director of research for defending education.
And anyway, the course appears to be quote a function.
He goes on as strategy sessions for street activism for Antifa's black clad protesters.
This is nuts.
By the way, violent drug cartels are now threatening to target American tourists in Mexico.
I would say that's a travel alert if you're thinking of going there.
Violent pro-Palestinian rioters send four Boston cops to the hospital.
And I will tell you that, you know, this meeting that the president had yesterday when he convened his cabinet and now labeling Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
Christy Gnomes said yesterday that, you know, Antifa is just as sophisticated as Hamas, ISIS, and MS 13 as the Trump administration's lost launches their crackdown on this far these far left groups.
And this is what the president is now trying to protect in places like Chicago, but of course, is meeting nothing but resistance.
You know, why would you resist?
I mean, this this slop of a governor uh who's an idiot and an idiot mayor, Brandon Johnson, J.B. Pritzker and Johnson.
You know, 4,000 dead under Pritzker.
And you're going to lecture Donald Trump about law and order, safety, security.
You know, then we have the this issue of pull of ICE agents being surrounded.
By the way, did you hear about this uh this leading Democrat out in California?
This Senate Democrat Katie Porter.
She does not recant her domestic abuse allegations against the uh Congresswoman after the campaign said he did.
Hoffman alleged that Porter hit him in the arm, causing a large bruise, dumped boiling potatoes on his head, ridiculed him as dumb.
We have a cut of this Katie Porter lady.
That we're gonna lose more than half a million Californians dying prematurely to air pollution and other problems, and the state could lose four out of my shot.
I wanna tell me that that's actually incorrect.
It's not that it's electric vehicles, it's that if we don't need a commitment's anyway, Paris climate quarry.
Okay.
It does okay.
You also were in my shop before that.
Stay out of my shot.
Oh.
He had to take anger management courses.
Wonder why.
Linda, she's not even as mad as you on your birthday.
Let me tell you something.
She needs to go hide under a bridge and act like a troll there.
