Dennis Prager Reacts to President Trump's Middle East Peace Agreement

Hi everybody, Dennis Prager here and I have been asked by an a lot of people to offer some commentary on the return of the hostages to Israel. So here are some thoughts that I have on the issue. Not in order of importance, just in order of how they come to my mind. The first is that if the world had normal standards, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize well before the Israel kamas deal. But if he doesn't win it now, it should be obvious to everyone that it is a politicized prize and doesn't reflect reality. His achievement whether it was Azerbaijan and Armenia and so many others uh has been has been remarkable. second is actually somewhat of a downer, but I have to be honest in Israel has given 2,000 terrorists that were in Israeli prisons. 20,000 for what what is it 20 or so uh living uh uh living uh is Israelis. All this does is tell terrorists around the world and especially terrorists who are attacking Israelis that the uh that this is a great way to get their people out of prison. And and so there's no such thing as a a a long imprisonment for almost any Muslim terrorists. Uh look, this was learned with uh the Israeli soldier years ago who was returned by Kamas for I think uh uh something like 2,000 terrorists. event. This includes people who murdered Israeli Jews and people who blew up buses and restaurants and so on. I totally understand the deep desire of Israelis to value every life. This is a very Jewish thing to do and that's what they have done. But it comes at a tremendous price. And the price is that uh they have taught their mortal enemies that they can get back the most heinous criminals uh just by taking an Israeli hostage. So there's no way to deny that fact. The third conclusion that I draw from this is also somewhat of a downer, if you will, and that is that Kamas has not been removed from power. To be honest, I never thought that that was a realistic aim that Kamas would stay in power uh in uh uh in Gaza and perhaps among among the Palestinians in the West Bank or Judea and Samaria. That's the way it is. Hamas, it has not been destroyed. It has been weakened, but it has not been destroyed. Number four is the incredible parallel between Netanyahu and Trump. No matter what Trump achieves, those who hate him continue to hate him. But he has supervised the destruction of Hezbollah in Lebanon, the near destruction of the Houthis in Yemen, the overwhelming destruction of the nuclear uh plans and and power in uh in Iran and the removal of the Syrian barbaric regime. He had all these fronts surrounding Israel and was able to extinguish nearly all of them. It's it's incredible. And you know, people forget because they came, you know, one after the other. But for example, the and the blowing up of the pages, if you want to read of a incredible achievement, read what is Israel did to get those exploding pages. into the hands of Hezbollah leaders. And then about the incredible ability to wipe out to eliminate the uh the leading scientists uh in Iran, just them, not not a whole group of people around them. It's these are amazing achievements. At the same time, he has to answer for the vaunted abilities of the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF, and their inability to respond for hours to what was happening in in in southern Israel. I would like to know frankly why why such a failure took place. Now I was mentioning the parallels between Netanyahu and Trump. Trump, no matter what he has achieved, and it has been beyond belief, they continue, his haters continue to hate him irrespective of what achievements he has uh attained. And likewise, they both have these domestic battles. Trump had his with uh all these phony indictments and Netanyahu has all of these uh in Israel for alleged crimes. I mean, I don't know the Netanyahu battles like I know the Trump battles, but if I'm not mistaken, one of them uh concerned receiving uh Cuban cigars. I mean, the the man that saved Israel and extinguished so many of its enemies and people are dwelling on his receipt theoretically illegally of cigars. Uh it's if that is accurate, it's it's a shame. People lose perspective. Perspective is one of the key elements in life. And so many people just lose it because they're overwhelmed by it by emotions and their their hatred uh is such that that's what matters. not not an ability to to see the achievements of these two men. And finally, this entire process should make it clear in case it hasn't of a society that is preoccupied with life and a society that venerates death or as Douglas Murray calls it a death cult. I I saw on the internet, aside from what everybody saw, the the celebration of uh death of both Palestinians and Jews on the part of Palestinians and Kamas and the Israeli preoccupation. perhaps even over preoccupation with the life of one Israeli of so that's clear but in addition the difference of celebrations I saw a video of Palestinians ecstatically dancing and cheering the words, "We will kill all the Jews." That was their celebration and the Israeli celebration. We will save all the Jews. There wasn't a word about extinguishing Palestinians. That's the difference. As Kamas put it years ago, we love death as much as the Jews love life. They know the difference. It's the naive French, English, Americans, Australians who don't know that difference. But you and I should. Thanks for listening. Until next time. Bye-bye.