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Aug 19, 2025

Hamas Agrees To Temporary Ceasefire

Hamas has agreed to a new ceasefire proposal that's almost identical to US envoy Steve Witkoff's proposal.
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The few American doctors here are doing what they can to help Palestinian medical staff. A photo above Zainab reads Zainab the Queen. She suffers from a condition that means she needs special baby formula. Foreign doctors saying any formula they bring with them is confiscated by Israeli authorities. [00:00:15] Part of a wider five month blockade of the strip. Images of skeletal Palestinian children like Zainab, sparking outrage around the world. But Israel is casting doubt on claims of famine. Well, what else would you expect from the Israeli government? [00:00:30] Meanwhile, desperate to get sufficient humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Hamas has accepted a 60 day truce that's much more favorable to Israel, to be quite frank. And now the ball is in Tel Aviv's court. Are they going to accept the ceasefire deal? [00:00:47] Spoiler alert they won't. Here's more details on it. From everything we know out of Cairo in particular, it is indistinguishable from the plan that Israel had in its hands and walked away from back in March. [00:01:03] March 2nd, including a 60 day truce. As you said, the release of ten out of more or less 20 living hostages and 18 bodies of dead hostages in exchange for around 200 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life sentences [00:01:21] or sentences longer than 15 years. That's what we know for now, and everybody's waiting on tenterhooks to see how Israel might respond. So again, in some, this would be a 60 day truce, with further negotiations allegedly [00:01:36] to make the ceasefire permanent. This was negotiated and put together by officials in Qatar and Egypt. It would require the return of the remains of 18 hostages who have died immediately, in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners who have been convicted and sentenced. [00:01:57] However, some reporting in drop site News provides additional details. For instance, Hamas would release eight Israeli captives who are still alive immediately and then two additional captives on the 50th day, along with the bodies of the 18 Israelis who have died now. [00:02:15] Drop site also. References. Al Jazeera's reporting on the number of Palestinian prisoners that Hamas wants released, which conflicts a little bit with the report that you heard earlier. So they write that Israel would free 1700 Palestinians, 45 people who have been, [00:02:31] you know, convicted to life sentences, 15 long term prisoners and 1500 Gazans detained since October 7th who haven't even been charged with anything. So I feel strange calling them prisoners. They they appear to be hostages. On the Palestinian side now, Egypt and Qatar again pledged [00:02:50] to work against a return to war if no final deal follows the 60 day truce. But this is not written in the proposal, and Hamas has also dropped its earlier demand for a US guarantee for security. Because, keep in mind, Israel is demanding, and this is one [00:03:06] of the sticking points that Hamas give up its weapons demilitarize. But if you demilitarize, that essentially ensures that the ball is entirely in Israel's court. They get to do whatever they want with no resistance. They initially wanted some sort of security guarantee from the US. I wouldn't [00:03:23] have trusted a security guarantee from the US anyway, but it doesn't even look like the US is entertaining that. So they've dropped it. And according to the New York Times, the latest terms are similar to those that Israel had previously accepted, and they include both a temporary ceasefire and a path to an agreement to the end to end the war, according to two diplomats and an [00:03:42] Egyptian official who spoke to the times. Now mediators also agree. Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari, speaking at a press conference in Doha on Tuesday, said that the proposal Hamas agreed to was almost identical to Wyckoff's okay [00:03:59] to Wyckoff's previous proposal. Almost 98% of what has been agreed to by the Israelis was contained in this recent proposal, but it is unlikely that Israel will accept the ceasefire because they do not want peace. And I'll give you the evidence of that and what we've heard from the Israelis [00:04:17] so far in just a moment. - First, I want to go to you, Jake. - Yeah. So I'm going to comment on the overall situation first and then get to the what I think of the ceasefire. So number one, you know, you saw in that clip there the very end where we, of the clip where they say, but the Israelis say nothing is true. [00:04:35] It's like we shouldn't even quote the Israelis anymore. First of all, they have a near 100% track record of lying. So then what's the point of putting out something that's nearly guaranteed to be a lie? Proven to be lies by every major press organization in the world. [00:04:51] All their different absurd claims like, oh, we are not bombing hospitals. Oh, did we destroy almost every hospital in Gaza? So it's kind of like saying, well, on the other hand, the Germans say the Jews had it coming. That's not an interesting thing to point out. [00:05:06] No, that's not an on the other hand, it's. - Not worth printing. - Yes. I'm not interested in the German propaganda during World War two, and I'm not interested in Israeli propaganda in the middle of this genocide, especially when it's been proven to be false almost every time. All right, number two, like for you to understand the starvation that was shown [00:05:23] in the clip and what Anna is referring to. So first of all, every day, we can't every if we all we did was bring you the numbers would be so depressing. Yesterday, 54 people killed in Gaza, today, 26 people killed. And it depends on, you know, how you're counting because they're like. [00:05:41] But because there's the there's the bombs that they drop on them where they light them on fire. There's the starvation. Every day, 3 to 4 new people die of starvation alone. But one of the most startling facts that I did not know before. I found out today also from job site news who's doing brilliant reporting on this. [00:05:59] Okay. The Israelis are killing the fishermen. I wonder why they would do that. That's weird. Isn't that weird? Why they have killed now in this conflict? A record number of journalists, a record number of human rights workers unseen anywhere else. In fact, the rest of the world combined has not killed as many human [00:06:17] rights workers or journalists as Israel has in Gaza in this last year. Okay. But also, they've now broken the record for number of fishermen that they've killed. Why? Because they don't want them getting food. It's not like they think they're going to dig, you know, fish up some sort [00:06:34] of weapons or rocket out of the sea. No, they don't want the Palestinians being fed because it is an intentional starvation. And this is what makes Trump's obsessive quest for a Nobel Peace Prize so disgusting. Because even if he does, what at the moment appears to be [00:06:52] impossible Possible brokering a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. It still leaves the question of Gaza unanswered, and the reality of the situation is Israel would not be able to carry out the genocide it's currently carrying out in Gaza without the help [00:07:07] of the United States government. Now, the American people in poll after poll are not in favor of supporting Israel in what it is carrying out. But the Trump administration has chosen to completely ignore the American people, including a huge portion of his own base when it comes to this issue. [00:07:24] So you can't get a Nobel Peace Prize. I mean, it would make the Nobel Peace Prize a complete and utter. I mean, look, I think it was already a joke after Obama got it, when he expanded Bush era foreign policy and even ramped up, [00:07:39] you know, the drone strikes that killed a ton of innocent people in the Middle East. But giving it to Donald Trump as he's aiding and abetting a genocide that has killed tens of thousands of innocent people so far, and that's an underestimate in Gaza is laughable, to say the least. [00:07:54] Look, we're the first show in America. Here, I'll prove it again. So if Trump delivers a two state solution, an independent Palestine, and that gets peace as far as the eye can see in the Middle East and Israel and Palestine, I'll personally deliver the Nobel Prize to him. Okay. I'll do everything in my power to make sure he gets the Nobel Peace Prize, [00:08:12] because he would richly deserve it. And I'll fundraise for a statue of Trump. Okay. No, no, I don't give a damn. Look, I agree, especially when it comes to this issue, right? If you finally have an American president who's willing to stand up to Israel and do the right thing, he would definitely deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for that. [00:08:28] I don't think he's ever going to do it, though. Yeah. There's only one president who's been strong enough to do that, and that's why the American media smeared him as weak. It was Jimmy Carter. Okay. He's the only one that got peace in the Middle East. So my thing is a giant. If is Trump going to do that? He seems to have no inclination towards that. [00:08:46] That brings me back to the cease fire. So just yesterday Trump is talking about, oh no, let's go slaughter them. And that'll mean the path to victory. I got it, dude. Netanyahu has something on you, I got it. Okay, so now, in terms of this offer. [00:09:01] Well, what do you want? This is a complete, by the way, like saying 98% is protecting Hamas. In some ways, this is a complete collapse by Hamas. Yeah. Hamas is giving in completely 98% is as good as 100%. And here's the key parts. [00:09:17] They've conceded on every major thing that Israel wanted. They say, yes, Israel can stay in the buffer zones in Gaza. So the occupation of Gaza continues. No, it is not a permanent end to the war, which is what Hamas was demanding. And no, you get no US security guarantees. [00:09:33] So all it does is it gets them some prisoners back. Look, that one I don't. Honestly, I don't care that as much about why. For a couple reasons. One, I don't know. They're prisoners, and I don't know what they did or didn't do. And number two is for the ones that Israel just grabs his hostages, [00:09:51] the innocent Palestinians, they can just go grab more tomorrow and they will. That's what they always do, right? They're terrorists. And I mean, they hold 5.5 million people hostage. Just grabbing people off the street randomly is Israeli IDF 101. So they're just going to grab more hostages? [00:10:07] It's not going to make a difference, right? Israel is. Israel can keep infinite number of hostages. So the thing I care about is ending the conflict and Israel leaving Gaza. But they're not getting that. All they're getting is Israel gets more hostages back, [00:10:22] and you get maybe a 60 day reprieve. And then the slaughter continues. And the Israelis say, no, no, no, we're definitely going to continue the slaughter. It's just a matter of when we wipe you out and move everyone out of Gaza and take it for ourselves. [00:10:37] They've already voted on it. They're not unclear about it. So Hamas has totally crumbled here in negotiations, and we bring it over back to the Israelis. They said yes. And Israelis are like, oh, damn it. Well let me. Okay, so first of all, I guess well played in that it does call out Israeli's bluff [00:10:55] and even the New York Times has no choice but to admit. Yeah, it looks, it looks like Israel is getting pretty much everything they want. The ball's in their court. We're waiting to see what they say. They have not issued an official statement on the cease fire offer yet. Okay. [00:11:10] As we are talking about it at this moment, they might afterwards after we publish this video. But here's what we know so far. Last week, in an interview with I24, which is an Israeli publication, Netanyahu made clear that he is no longer interested in a deal [00:11:27] that would involve the release of only some hostages or hostages in, you know, stages, essentially. That was, by the way, the same interview in which he made clear that he is absolutely a believer in the Greater Israel Project and intends to annex the West Bank, [00:11:43] the Gaza Strip, potentially land that goes beyond that, encroaching on territory in other neighboring countries as well. So look, I need people who don't understand this yet to just finally accept it, to finally understand it. What Netanyahu and the IDF have been doing in the Gaza Strip [00:12:02] has never been about saving the hostages. They see the hostages as the price that they're going to pay in order to take that land. If they cared about the hostages, there wouldn't be a three month blockade of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, which, of course, [00:12:19] negatively impacts the Palestinians, who they couldn't care less about, but obviously also impacts the Israeli hostages who remain held captive in the Gaza Strip. They don't care about the hostages. And I think the Israeli people who took to the streets over the weekend in this mass protest have finally understood that. [00:12:36] Now, in turn, by the way, Israel's dogs in America followed suit with the same messaging that you hear from Netanyahu, with Steve Witkoff basically telling Ynet Net Hebrew. The net Hebrew Hebrew news site. No piecemeal deals. That doesn't work. [00:12:52] Now we think that we have to shift this negotiation to all or nothing. Everybody comes home. We have a plan around it, he added, without elaborating. Okay. Great, brother. Great. Okay. But I'm super happy to do all or nothing. But that means Israel leaves Gaza if Israel doesn't leave Gaza. [00:13:11] What you're saying is, you give us everything we want. You allow yourself to be slaughtered. You allow yourself to be moved out. You allow Israel to steal Gaza. And that's our offer. Well, that's not an offer. That's just saying we're going to do whatever the hell we want, and we're [00:13:28] getting the idiot press to play along while we're pretending to do fake offers. And Hamas, by the way, said that they are absolutely willing to release all the hostages in one fell swoop at once, for in return for a permanent end to the war. But Israel doesn't want that, and they don't care about the hostages. [00:13:45] And guys, there's no question about it. Everyone reports the facts the same. But what's fascinating is the framing around the facts, right? So the facts are Israel is saying no to its own so-called cease fire deal, and Israel is saying that there's no way they're ever going [00:14:03] to let Palestinians rule Gaza again. And in fact, they voted with every single member representing Jewish Israelis in the Knesset voting to never allow Palestine. So they said it a thousand times. We all know what the facts are. [00:14:20] They're going to steal Gaga Gaza. And they voted on it. They said, we are going to conquer Gaza right now. The framing around it is American media going, but the Germans say that they're doing it on behalf of the Palestinians. And the Germans say that they have to keep the Jews in the concentration camps, [00:14:36] because that's what's best for them. And the Germans say that they have plenty to eat because not all the Jews have starved. Oh, I'm sorry, I meant the Israelis and the and the Palestinians. So Netanyahu, according to the New York Times, has said, I hear the reports in the media and from them you can be impressed by one thing. [00:14:54] Hamas is under immense pressure. Well, I mean, this has been a lopsided, you know, asymmetrical issue where you have Israel armed to the teeth thanks to the United States taxpayer against their own will. By the way, and, what do the Palestinians have? [00:15:10] Do you have do they have a military? Do they have the Iron Dome? Do they have the same defense capabilities? Do they have, the world's military superpower, the United States, arming them the way that Israel is being armed? It's pathetic. It's absolutely pathetic when you have all of the advantages [00:15:26] and you're like, you know, puffing up your chest like some big tough guy, as if the fall of Israel wouldn't immediately occur if the United States pulled support from your disgusting country. Okay. That's the reality of the situation. Netanyahu, feeling all high and mighty as he's like sucking up U.S. [00:15:44] Taxpayer money to carry out this disgusting genocide in Gaza and the annexation of the West Bank. That's the reality of the situation. But look, I want to go to one video, Jake, because there are some journalists out there who are paying attention, who are doing good work. And channel four news in the UK is a good example of what I'm talking about. [00:16:03] So in this interview, you're going to hear from an Israeli spokesperson. He represents Israel's foreign ministry and he's trying to rewrite history in real time. But the host won't let him. Take a look. I want to see the hostages coming back right now. [00:16:19] The only problem is we are not negotiating with ourselves. But. Yeah. Sorry to interrupt you. There were large numbers of hostages released after a deal was done. You know, between you and Hamas via the Qataris and the Americans, [00:16:35] you know, quite some time ago now. We saw, you know, hundreds of hostiles. I mean, more than 100 hostages released. But there has to be a deal. There has to be a deal. And for a deal, you need two to tango. Right now, Israel said yes to every proposal that was put on the table. [00:16:56] Again, this is not me speaking. This is the United States of America. This is Steve Witkoff saying this is the president of the United States saying Hamas is not willing to budge. What an absolute liar. What a disgrace. [00:17:12] It is embarrassing that the United States government, again, is being humiliated and dog walked by a foreign country. And by the way, in addition to the lies you just heard, you should know. Netanyahu's office also said on Monday that the prime minister had spoken with Defense Minister Israel [00:17:29] Katz and the Israeli military about our plans regarding Gaza City and the completion of our missions, meaning the full occupation of the Gaza Strip. And they're going to do that by a ground invasion of Gaza City, which they've already begun. [00:17:44] And Trump is encouraging this writing on Truth Social that we will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed. The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be. The only time the hostages were returned was during time of peace times of peace [00:18:03] when there was a cease fire. The last cease fire, by the way, unsurprisingly, was broken by Israel. - They don't care about the hostages. - Yeah. Even if with this Hamas surrender on the negotiations, even if Israel said yes and Hamas gave back the hostages in this deal, [00:18:20] and it was supposed to just last 60 days, Israel could violate it at any time. And they always do. They break every ceasefire. So like their word means nothing. That's why guys, somebody one of our members made a really interesting point on another show. They said, you know, the only time the Israelis seem to get challenged [00:18:38] is if it's an anchor with an accent of any sort. 100% true. And that is. You're absolutely right. That's because cable news is also occupied by Israel, right? And so that one eye is a mystery to me. I don't know why. I know why, the politicians are that's AIPAC money, Israeli lobby money. [00:18:55] It's clear as day. Probably some compromise in there. Okay. But but the press is absurd. So, for example, to Anna's earlier point, Israel has nukes and Iron Dome. It's almost impossible to be safer. That's why they're Israeli soldiers now that are saying on October 7th, [00:19:13] they told us to stand down. I don't know why. They told us to stand down for 4.5 hours. We know why. Okay. So it's a nearly impenetrable country that can retaliate with nukes. And the Palestinians are down to stones. They just have stones left. You know, they used to complain like, oh, they're firing rockets at us at all times. [00:19:31] It's like Peashooters Iron Dome shot down 99.8% of them. Okay. No threat to Israel at all. But they were like. Oh, my God, we're here in existential danger. Did you know that one of us once got injured tripping while looking at one of the missiles getting knocked down? [00:19:46] Meanwhile, there's 62,000 slaughtered bodies in Gaza. - An underestimate. - Yeah, yeah. And 156,000 that are injured, etc.. Okay, so but the American press looks at that and goes, the Palestinians are threatening Israel's right to exist, [00:20:03] but Israel is not threatening the Palestinians right to exist, even though Israel literally blocks the Palestinians right to exist, literally and physically. So the American press is filled with almost complete liars [00:20:18] that are all lying to you and trying to brainwash you on behalf of Israel with preposterous talking points. Oh, the we owe Israel. Why do we owe Israel? - Oh, Israel. - What a weird thing to say. The American taxpayer they have been, and why hundreds of billions of dollars [00:20:35] from the American taxpayer to carry out its atrocities. Okay, let's just keep it real. By the way, Netanyahu has called French President Emmanuel Macron, who I don't have any love for, but Macron wants to establish a Palestinian state. And for that reason, Netanyahu has accused him of being an anti-Semite. [00:20:51] Yeah, of course he has. And by the way, again, like what you should do if you're a real reporter whose objective is, say, look, that's absurd. This is a guy who's committing a genocide. Now, his word has no weight at all. And he's a bigot who obviously thinks that Palestinian lives are, are worthless. [00:21:07] He believes in Jewish supremacy. And and that's why he says God owes him Greater Israel. America owes him $300 billion. All this is absurd. But instead, our media does the exact opposite. They go. No. That's true. We owe Israel, and Netanyahu says it, so it must be true, etc.. [00:21:25] Okay, now guys, if you wonder why we get so upset about this story from time to time, we get asked that. Number one, we have a genocide happening in the middle of our lives. So like, don't go to a museum to figure out what you could do in the middle of a genocide. - With. - Our do it now. With our money. With our money. [00:21:41] I love the oh, how come you don't care about this conflict that's happening elsewhere in the world? - Because we're not funding that conflict. - And I do care about it. I interviewed one of the leaders of the Uyghur people about the genocide happening in China, to the Uyghurs, to the Uyghurs. And there's different pronunciation. But your calls for deflection and distraction are not going to work. [00:21:59] Yeah, but but we're not funding the Chinese concentration camps. We are funding the Israeli genocide. So that's point number two. Number one, there's a genocide. You should all be animated. Number two, they're doing it with our money. And they're saying that if we object, we're the hateful ones. [00:22:15] We're the you're an anti-Semite. If you object to genocide. Okay, that's the latest definition in ludicrous, insane mental asylum. Okay. Number three is the gaslighting. The gaslighting is unbearable. Poor little Israel is the victim of those monstrous, super powerful Palestinians. [00:22:32] - All the Palestinians. - Are oppressing the poor little Israelis. That's why they had all to be murdered and slaughtered. - Their children are terrorists too. - So the gaslighting is unbearable. So it's got so much of it is mainstream media's fault. And lastly, guys, this is among the most important issue kind of and it's [00:22:49] connected to money in politics. Do we control our own government or don't we. - No we don't. - So this is not a small issue. Do we have sovereignty? Do we actually have a democracy? Is this America, or did I accidentally immigrate to a colony of Israel? [00:23:06] Like if you told my family, hey, you're going to occupy territory and the country. You. You believe in this hope and this dream and this beautiful thing that you believe in. That's just a joke. Israel controls it. If you if anyone in America disagrees with Israel, they will come a time and they'll [00:23:22] be arrested, denaturalized deported, have all their funding cut, etc.. No, no, no, I never agreed to give up American sovereignty. No one agreed to it. The only people who agreed to it are deeply corrupt politicians and and are deeply corrupt media whose job is to lie to you. [00:23:40] And I'll add one last thing about Trump's statue. Give me a two state solution with an independent Palestine. And by the way, an independent and safe Israel. Okay. You get statues of you, right? You help them commit this genocide with our money. You also get statues, but all of your statues will be drenched in blood. [00:23:58] Okay. Because that's what you're doing. Oh, Israel. I'll serve you like a little puppy dog and you'll be known forever, Donald J. Trump as a bitch. As a guy who served Israel's orders like a dog wolf. Okay. America first, my ass. [00:24:14] Show me one ounce of independence from Israel and I'll believe you. But for now, I see the leash. And I see you getting walked around the park, brother. And we all got eyes and ears. And we all see it. Including your own base. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. [00:24:31] Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.