On Monday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump has made clear several times while he was in the Middle East that he believes his order bombing the Iranian nuclear sites was pivotal in bringing about his peace deal, including the backing of Arab/Muslim countries and the release of the 20 hostages. We shouldn’t forget the names of those in our country who unleashed a relentless, vicious, and deceitful campaign against the bombing of those Iranian nuclear sites and those of us who strongly encouraged and supported it. They also trashed Trump before he acted, claiming it would divide MAGA, lead to WWIII and the death of thousands of American troops and perhaps nuclear war with China and Russia, and that Netanyahu and the Jews were trying to drag our country into a war. These liars will be remembered forever as the buffoons that they are. Also, another media lie has been obliterated. Trump’s speech at the Knesset was filled with praise for PM Benjamin Netanyahu. There is virtually no mention of this on TV or radio. Why? Because it obliterates the constant and endless media narrative that the two men are hostile toward each other, or that there was and is a significant gap between them. Later, phase two of the Gaza peace plan will be extremely difficult. Achieving peace in the Middle East requires defeating, starving, isolating, and eliminating jihadists, Islamists, and terrorists from groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, ISIS, and Al Qaeda. Eternal peace is impossible without addressing this existential terrorist threat from supporting countries.
Mediaite
Trump Declares U.S. Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Turbocharged Israel-Hamas Truce
Times of Israel
Report: Erdogan told Sissi his plane heading to Cairo for Gaza summit would turn around if Netanyahu allowed to come
JNS
In ‘blatant breach,’ Hamas returns only four of 28 bodies of hostages
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello America. Mark Levin here. Our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. What a day. Right. My wife and me. We started watching the tube around one, two in the morning, and here it is. 6:06 p.m. Eastern Time. Watching every bit of it. Because it is historic in every respect. And. Making some calls and taking some calls from. Fantastic. People have had various roles in this process. Let me start with Saturday night. Saturday night. My wife Julie and I are having dinner with dear friends. And I get a call. And it’s the president. And such a great honor invites me to go on Air Force One to accompany him and his cabinet and the other folks. To Israel. Four, His kidneys had speech. And of course, I desperately wanted to go, but I couldn’t. And of course, online people are making all kinds of horrendous comments about why I wouldn’t or couldn’t. So I feel compelled just to share with you. I couldn’t. Because I’m not comfortable leaving the country with my brother as ill as he is. That’s why I didn’t. But it was a fantastic event. There’s been a lot of lies reported in the media. About our president, about the prime minister of Israel. A lot of lies. Axios is really ground zero for the lies for the senior anonymous sources and others. Who keep leaking to. Barack Ravid, sort of a self-hating Israeli. This relentless attempt to scuttle. The alliance between the United States and Israel. By the radical left media. By the Hamas supporting media. By the Neanderthal isolationists, Jew hater grifters who are podcasters is really appalling. President Trump has tried to put this to rest over and over and over again. President Trump It is, I’ll say for the thousandth time, a historic and iconic figure. Take it all in. Digest it. Because there’s never been another like him in your lifetime. And he approaches life and he approaches events and he approaches problems. As a man who’s out to solve things. And he doesn’t like to be told no. And so he makes progress where others could not. Now, I’ve heard it said that what was really pivotal. Some of our friends regurgitating this and really driving this action towards peace. Getting it over the finish line was when the Israelis hit. They’re building that room in Qatar. Trying to take out the leadership. Of Hamas. And that that infuriated the president and that’s when he decided to force Israel’s hand pressure Israel. And when the Arabs saw that, of course, they they decided Trump could be trusted. That is a lie. Even Trump, said he. He never hollered at. There’s nothing no heated discussions with Netanyahu. But it doesn’t matter. People are leaking and people want to project this in regurgitated. I see it a little differently as a matter of logic that Qatar got the message. That no matter who they hired or how they hired them, they can be reached. Like the leadership of Hezbollah. That doesn’t exist anymore. Like the leadership of Iran, three quarters of which was wiped out, like the leadership of Hamas, almost all of which was wiped out, except those who were given safe haven. By Qatar and Turkey. And what we learned from the ambassador to the United States from Israel on my show on Saturday night. Life, liberty and live in. That’s her lighter. Was that in fact, because he was there? Donald Trump told Qatar and Turkey, you put pressure on Hamas to get this thing done or you remove them from your countries there in your country. Now get something out of them. Get it done. Something to that effect. Now. As I have been watching the the aftermath of these fantastic events that took place, I am so proud of Donald Trump and what he’s done. It’s just I mean, it’s just it’s hard to articulate. It really is. It’s hard to articulate. I’ve done my best over the course of the last few weeks, months, years. It really is. But Donald Trump himself has said the pivotal moment came. The pivotal moment came. It really started when he took out Iran’s nuclear sites. That’s what he says. Not leakers, the media. That’s what he says. Now, why is this important? Number one, it was important. He did what he did. Why else is it important? There were individuals. Claiming to be MAGA. Some of them in the house. Some of them were podcasts, some of them with subscription platforms. Some of them who are comics. And on and on and on. Grifters are. Who told you? That Donald Trump should not hit those Iranian nuclear sites. Tucker Carlson. Candace Owens. David Smith. Joe Rogan. Who else? Many others. Friend of mine who I shall not mention right now just said I don’t want. But others. And others. You were told? I was told. We were told that it would start World War Three. That China and Russia will come to the defense of Iran, that it could cause a nuclear war. That Netanyahu and Israel and the Jews and Mark Levin wanted to drag America into a war. That this was at time MAGA, even though 92% of MAGA supported it. And if they had prevailed, Iran would have nuclear weapons. They’d have 10,000 ballistic missiles. And our country would be in dire straits and there’d be no peace. That much I can tell you. These people will not apologize. They will not, upon circumspection, reverse course because they have no circumspection. They hope you’ll forget. Over my dead body. Some of them are on TV, even cable TV, who spewed the same thing. This isn’t America. First, they kept telling us it’s not America first. It’s dividing MAGA. It’s going to bring down the Trump presidency. We heard it over and over and over again. You haven’t heard this from anybody today, have you? And they were liars. They’re just pushing their own ideology. They agreed with the Islamists and the Marxists who wanted Iran to stand, who wanted them to get nuclear weapons. They were wrong. You should ignore these people. You shouldn’t listen to these people because this day would never have happened. But for the tenacity, the statesmanship, the wisdom, the foresight of President Trump. Who ignored them. He ignored them. He’s MAGA, not them. He’s peace through strength. Like Reagan. For me. I don’t have to defend myself. I was right. However, as I write because I’m Nostradamus now. It’s called the ability to Reason. To reason not to be driven by ideology, to be driven by reason based on sound principles. It’s called prudence. That’s it. That’s what foreign policy, in fact, all policy should be about. Right from wrong. What works? Is there a threat? Is the threat existential? And on and on and on. The president was right. We were right. You and me. Trey Yingst had a short interview with the president after his unbelievable speech in front of the Knesset. Unbelievable. They jumped up so many times with standing ovations, I couldn’t keep count. All the parties there. Cut one, Mr. Producer, And you’re not hearing this anywhere. You’re not hearing this anywhere. Even though it was stated in front of billions of people. Cut one. Go. When did you know that Hamas was going to release the hostages? Well, I’ll tell you, I think it really started when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. When you look at what they had, you couldn’t have made this deal. If somebody sitting over there with a nuclear weapon over your head. And I think when we did that and there were other obviously very warlike things that we did over the course of four or five years, if you, you know, setting the table. But when we did the the when we took away that destructive capability from Iran. He knew the hostages could be released. Now, the fact of the matter is. It was Israel in 12 days that defeated Iran. Israel was their troops. It was their pilots. It was their intelligence agencies. It was we who took out. Their nuclear sites critical. To protecting our country, Israel and the entire region with the quiet but strong support. Of the Arab countries. They wanted him gone to. Taking out the nuclear sites. What do you make of that, America? What do you make of that? Well, I’ve got more. We’ll be right back.
Segment 2
If Bibi Netanyahu wasn’t the prime minister of Israel, if Donald Trump had not been elected president. None of this would be and it would be a complete disaster. The Biden regime was withholding weapons from Netanyahu. It was withholding, the IDF was undermining and leaking his his nation’s plans against Hamas and Iran. Biden regime was funding Iran subsidizing their nuclear program. What a disaster. Trump comes in. He kills at all. He releases the weapons that Israel had purchased. He essentially lets Israel do everything Israel believes it needs to do. Under Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. And this was a real partnership, like any alliance or disagreement from time to time. I can’t think of any where there aren’t or any relationship or partnership for that matter. But the fact of the matter is. This was a12 punch. No matter how many people try to shape it otherwise. And the same dunderheads who were opposed to bombing the nuclear sites think they’re smarter than reality. They try to spin. Here, in part is what President Trump said that’s receiving almost no attention. So I’ll take care of it. Mr. Producer Cutie. Go. After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity. 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families. And it is glorious. 28 more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest. And it is sacred soil for all of time. And after so many years of unceasing war and endless danger. Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still and the sun rises on a holy land that is finally at peace. A land and a region that will live, God willing, in peace for all eternity. This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of a age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God. It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I believe that so strongly. This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East. I want to express my gratitude to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership did so much to make this momentous day possible. You know who I’m talking about? There’s only one. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Let’s hear their last part again. Rich, go. I want to express my gratitude to a man of exceptional courage and patriotism whose partnership did so much to make this momentous day possible. You know what I’m talking about? There’s only one. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beijing Police. Does that sound like? They don’t like each other? That sound like they didn’t work closely together? But for Israel’s military and their prime minister and our military and our president, none of this would be happening. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
Now, ladies and gentlemen, this phase two, as it’s called, is going to be very difficult. We can worry about this tomorrow. It’s going to be very difficult. I’ve mentioned this to you multiple times already. If you want peace in the Middle East. What are you going to do? What do you have to do if you want peace in the Middle East? You’ve got to stop the jihadists and the Islamists. You’ve got to defeat them. Get had a starving cat isolate. I have to eliminate them. In other words, the terrorists. You know, was thinking about this. In many ways, Israel is like Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a counterpuncher. Israel’s a counterpuncher in Israel’s attack. And they attack back. Israel in attack. The people in Gaza. They attacked Israel. It’s all in attack. Iran. Iran attacked Israel. Israel didn’t attack Hezbollah. Hezbollah attacked Israel. When Donald Trump’s attacked, he attacks back. He’s a counterpuncher. They’re counter punches. The only time they weren’t is 1967. When the Arab states led by Egypt, their armies were moving to surround and cut off Israel, and Israel attacked them first. But same thing goes for obviously. Military steps aim to attack Israel. So again, Israel as a counterpuncher. Like Donald Trump. So here’s the question then. They just let out 2000 Palestinian terrorists, prisoners, 250 of whom are murderers. Some of the most horrendous murderers on the face of the earth. Who have murdered mothers and babies. Innocent people. Innocent citizens who’ve done nothing to them. In other words, they’re terrorists. They’re unrepentant. They haven’t sworn off terrorism. Muslim Brotherhood hasn’t sworn off terrorism. Hamas hasn’t sworn off terrorism. They’re slaughtering people right now in Gaza. Islamic Jihad, ISIS. They’re in sworn off terrorism. Al Qaeda. So until the countries from which these terrorists attack. Until they do something about these terrorists. I just don’t see how this in the end is going to bring us eternal peace. We have to address the existential problem in order to achieve eternal peace. The world has never seen eternal peace. But eternal peace with terrorists I know is an impossibility. Now, I know we keep praising Qatar. I just saw Qatar on our favorite TV network. Qatar is the biggest funder of terrorism. Okay. Just want to point that out. Saudi Arabia. Most of those pilots came out of Saudi Arabia who attacked us on 911. The mastermind of 911 was protected, funded. By Qatar. This guy, Erdogan. The murderous, genocidal dictator runs Turkey. He told Sisi, the military dictator of Egypt, that if Netanyahu comes to the meeting, you saw the meeting in Egypt, he’s turning his plane around. He’s going back to Turkey. So Netanyahu didn’t go first. He was ready to go. Then he said it’s the Jewish holiday. And so he didn’t go, but obviously was asked politely. Maybe we got a problem here. Can you just. Okay. Okay, fine. You just released hundreds of sinuous. Who was the head of Hamas until he was obliterated. Hundreds of wars. Thousands. Of terrorist militia types today. In Judea and Samaria. And other parts. Of surrounding. And in fact, Israeli territory. 24 deceased Israeli hostages. Their remains have not been turned over because Hamas said they couldn’t find them. I think it was last week. Here is somewhere I said that would be their game. They would say we can’t find them and whatever and so forth. So they still haven’t met their obligation. They all haven’t been returned. Look, I’m just a practical person. Again, I use reason, not ideology, conservative philosophy, principles, reason and ideology. Not ideology reason, not ideology. It’ll be very interesting. Now, I know these countries have a lot of money. But are they determined to stop what’s been going on in their countries, what they’ve tolerated either through acquiescence or out of fear? Some of these dictatorships, you know, they’re hanging by a thread. They don’t want these terrorist to turn on them. Others used the terrorist like Qatar using Al-Jazeera. State run media. Folks go to memory dot org. I tell you over and over again, Emmy MRI talk. But I haven’t seen anything that demonstrates that any of these terror organizations have sworn off terror. And so it’s up to the Arab and Muslim countries. Where they reside. To help deal with it. To help deal with it. By the way, I’ll be on a HANNITY like around 9:10 p.m. Eastern Time. I’ll be. Sprinting. From my radio studio. To get to a HANNITY camera. So I will. I will be on Fox about 910. Just turn on at 9 p.m.. It’s great show, HANNITY. Eastern Time and I will be there. And answering whatever questions Sean may put to me. I have another idea, and I want you to hear more of this. This unbelievable speech by our president. Just spectacular. Spectacular. The Nobel Peace Prize. I’m going to mention this, Mr. Producer. Then everybody’s going to mention it. You’re ready? You ready, America? You know who the plagiarists are out there? The verbal plagiarists. Miss reducer without looking it up. Do you know what made Alfred Nobel famous? He invented dynamite. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. But he wanted his legacy. To be that he was a man of peace. So he became extraordinarily wealthy. And so he created the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfred Nobel was Swedish. So they had this little committee in Sweden, a little country. And everybody vies for the Nobel Peace Prize. Why do we give a damn about Alfred Nobel? Sweden, which is barely a country. No offense. And this little committee that determines who gets prizes. Why do we care about that? I have a better idea. So this is what will be repeated? Of course. Nobody told you that Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. Now, one person. Our country. A real country. Should establish the Trump Peace Prize. Trump Peace Prize. Funded by. Billionaire patriots who can give out the award with the with the funding award. And the first prize should go to Donald Trump. There is no second place, third place, fourth place or fifth place. There simply isn’t any. They don’t exist. Now, there are great heroes out there, like the heroine and in Venezuela. But even she turned around and said, Look. Donald Trump deserves it. And there’s no reason why you can’t give out more than one. We can create our own rules on this. On this committee. So forget about the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize had a Sweden. Rather be the Donald Trump Peace Prize, the United States of America. How do you like that, Mr. Producer? And he should get the first peace prize because. My God, if he doesn’t deserve it, who the hell does? You know, this Nobel Prize committee gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat. Yasser Arafat. I mean, that was enough of a disgrace, don’t you think? I can assure you the Trump Peace Prize would never go to his ilk. That is the ilk of a Yasser Arafat. That would be crazy. Crazy. All right, let’s see here. Stick with me, America. We’re going to continue. There’s so much good here. Let’s go to. Let’s see. We just did cut to, I think, great, Rich. So let’s. We did not. Let’s go to cut to please go in Israel just now, you were talking about a possible Iran peace deal. You said we are ready when you are. Is that the ultimate goal with today’s signing to get it? I know. Not Iran, but but I think Iran will come along and they’ve been battered and bruised. And, you know, they’re. They need some help. There are big sanctions, as you know, tremendous sanctions are move to take the sanctions off or the Iranians are, but they can’t really survive without the sanctions. Those sanctions are very job. But at some point, they’re going to say, we want the sanctions or we’re going to end up with face. I think Iran is going to be fine. I know so many Iranian people. They’re great people. They’re smart, great, great people, engineers, lawyers. I mean, they’re academics. But the they they took a big hit. And frankly, if we didn’t hit them on the nuclear, I don’t think you would have been able to have this incredible government, this this deal, this once in a lifetime deal. Nobody’s ever seen anything like what’s happening. And countries have all come together, all different countries. Some like each other, some motivated, and they’ve all come together. Every country has come together. And by the way, Iran did put out a statement, you know, that they support this deal very wholeheartedly. So that was in itself something. But no, I think they want to that’s all I do in my life. I big deals and they want to make a deal. Of course, the problem with Iran is you’ve got the people, 90% of the people who are under the thumb of the 10% of the thugs, the murders, the terrorists who run the country. And they’ve killed about a thousand people so far, just summarily executed them in horrific ways since they lost the war with Israel and the United States. So that’s part of the problem. A lot of these dictatorships are hated by the people. The people of the country. Iran is certainly at the top of the list. So in terms of feeling battered and bruised, the people of Iran might feel battered and bruised. They have to. The feel the brunt of this stuff. Of course, the leadership was slammed hard, especially by the Israelis. But that leadership has nowhere to go, that people would rip them Linda Limb if they could. The Iranian people are Persian people. They’re not Islamists. They’re not Arabs. The Turkish people are not Islamists. They’re not Arabs. That’s why Ertegun is not going to loosen his control. He will continue to take them. That’s why in Iran, Khamenei, while not losing control, he’ll continue to tighten it. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Let’s listen to this. Cut 11 go. And the choice for Palestinians could not be more clear. This is their chance to turn forever from the path of terror. And violence has been extreme to exile the wicked forces of hate that are in their midst. And I think that’s going to happen. And some people over the last couple of months that want to see it happen very much. And after tremendous pain and death and hardship, now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down. We don’t want that to happen again. And the total focus of Gazans must be on restoring the fundamentals of stability, safety, dignity and economic development so they can finally have the better life that their children really do deserve after all these decades of horror. I intend to be a partner in this effort in the sense that we’re going to help and we’re going to do something that became unbelievably popular. Everybody wants to be on it. It’s called the Board of Peace. Okay, how about that? Is that a beautiful name, like aboard a peace? I see the imams in our own country. I see a Dearborn stand. I see the faculty members and some of our greatest what were greatest colleges and universities. I see who we’re trying to deport. The people who hate and try to overturn our country. I see the people on the street. The come from these parts of the world. Who seek to destroy what they call the American empire. Burn our flag. Carry the flag of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, and the whole bunch. I see the offenses they commit. I see they’re violent. I see the hate. For our country. How are we going to deal with this? How are we going to extinguish this? When it’s being imported into our country. From places like the Middle East. How are we going to stop the Palestinians from teaching their children to hate Jews? They have their own Sesame Street, which is all about the extermination of Jews. How are we going to stop this? When they celebrate the Holocaust and Hitler. How are we going to reach into their culture? To stop What that what they’re doing. We’re having difficulty reaching into our own culture to stop what the Marxist Islamists are doing to our own country. I’m just saying this is a a very, very complicated task. In which one of these Arab countries is going to go along with us first. To cleanse the culture. The culture of terrorism among the Palestinians, whether they be in Gaza or other parts of the Middle East. Who’s going to do this? The Qataris? The Saudis. So this will be a significant, significant challenge. I’ll be right back.
