Today, It Looks Like There’s Hope for Peace in Gaza
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Matthew 5:9.”
The Trump administration’s Board of Peace just signed a historic peace agreement with Hamas. I’m going to read the details in a minute because you’re not going to hear it on YouTube, and you’re probably not going to really hear it in the media.
We’ll go over that in a minute. I’m 60 years old and have been a geopolitical nerd my whole life. There has always been a war between the West and the socialists and Islamists. The socialists and communists, you know, are all in the same family. The Islamists have had an unholy alliance with them throughout my lifetime.
TerreneGlobe Editor-in-Chief Timothy Gocklin appears in this AI-generated depiction of President Donald Trump confronting Hamas.
Although America is winning the physical wars, they are winning the propaganda war. They have had the Iran Expert Initiative for years in our colleges, propagandizing our kids. That’s why all our kids are lefties coming out of college. They work together with the communists.
This is a fact. Look at the past 10 years. Middle Eastern countries, including Muslim theocracies, have donated billions of dollars to Ivy League schools. China has also donated billions of dollars, and there are always strings attached when someone donates money. The Muslim Brotherhood has done the same thing, donating billions of dollars over the years.
We have always had to fight the left. But now, with YouTube and greed, these organizations are infiltrating people we once considered conservative or even Catholic. They are literally repeating Iranian and mainstream-media Democratic talking points, which are usually very similar.
They put propagandists from the Iranian Expert Initiative, such as Professor Marandi, on their shows. He has become like Michael Lofton’s hero, if you watch his shows. Professor Marandi is an Iranian propagandist. He is very smart. He is a scholar. He speaks good English, and he is very convincing, but he is a liar and a terrorist. It doesn’t matter how he sounds. The truth is the truth.
I’m telling you all this because there is so much propaganda on YouTube. Sometimes I can’t even argue with people because they are way up at the top of the propaganda house, and I have to bring them all the way down to the foundation.
You believe this, this, and this. This is why you believe this.
In a very short time, because I do work for a living and have to get off to work in a few minutes, I’m going to give you a brief history of how we got to this Hamas peace agreement with the United States and Israel.
The lie is that, in 1948, Israel stole the land of Palestine from the Palestinians.
No, the British did.
Listen, this is a fact. The British ruled the area that we now call Israel. After World War II, the British Empire, which had ruled it since World War I, gave it to Israel.
Now, we can argue: Was that right? Did they take it over? Were they worse than Americans when we took the land from the Indians? I’m literally going to have military scholars and historical scholars on to argue those points.
But I just want to give you a basic history because you hear YouTubers like Michael Lofton, who had a sign up the other day that said, “Free Palestine, deport ICE.” The left wants to abolish ICE and the police, and, of course, the Islamists hate Israel. That alliance was all expressed on that sign.
In 1948, the British gave the land to Israel. That’s a fact. The British gave the land to Israel with the support of the United Nations, and everybody decided that was a good thing at the time.
Shortly after that, in 1948, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War began. Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Iraq were involved. I think I might be missing one. It was around seven countries. The primary countries were Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
They attacked Israel. Although Israel won that battle, Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip, and Jordan took control of the West Bank.
Then, in 1967, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria went for the full Monty. They attacked Israel again. Within six days, Israel defeated them. That’s why it’s called the Six-Day War. Israel then took back the West Bank and Gaza.
From that time, there has been this conflict.
In 1997, Bill Clinton had an agreement. Israel agreed to give 97% of Gaza to the Palestinians for self-rule, basically creating a two-state solution.
Their leader negotiating at the time was Yasser Arafat, a terrorist who ran the PLO and was backed by Iran. He said, “No, we don’t want it,” because Iran wants to destroy Israel. That is in their charter: 100%, from the river to the sea, kill every Jew.
They want the same for America, too, by the way. They tell you, “Death to America,” every day in their parliament, or whatever their dictatorship-theocracy government is called over there.
They refused.
In 2004, Arafat died. Iran realized the PLO was getting too soft, so it propped up Hamas, a savage, known terrorist group worse than ISIS. Iran propped them up and started giving them money.
George Bush got Israel to withdraw from Gaza and give Gaza to the Palestinians for self-rule. Again, it was basically a two-state solution.
We gave them billions of dollars to help them. We helped them set up a free and fair election, and they voted for Hamas to rule them.
The people in Gaza voted for terrorists. Just like we have Republicans and Democrats, they had Hamas, the PLO, and I think there was another group. They decided to go with the most radical, savage, demonic Islamic terrorists to rule them.
Of course, Hamas did not use all those billions we gave them to feed the people, build houses, or build up a beautiful little Mediterranean country. They could have made it into such a beautiful resort country right on the Mediterranean. They could have done so many wonderful things.
The vision we had, the vision Bush had, was not what Hamas did.
They took that money, built expensive, elaborate tunnels, bought weapons from Iran, and kept bombing churches, synagogues, temples, childcare centers, nursing homes, and schools. They constantly terrorized Israel.
That’s where we come to.
Trump became president during his first term, and he learned from Ronald Reagan that the best way to get peace is through strength. Bullies only understand a punch in the face. They don’t understand weakness.
Bush allowed Russia to take Georgia. Obama allowed Russia to take Crimea. Trump came in, stopped Russian expansion, and established the Abraham Accords in the Middle East, which was a historic peace deal involving four or five Middle Eastern countries. He was about to get more.
Biden became president and started funding Iran. The first time, we beat them with economic strength. We starved Iran of the money it was using to fund terrorist groups such as Hamas.
Everybody agreed. Everyone in the world knows this. Every Western country and all the Gulf states know this is a fact. Iran is the number-one state sponsor of terrorism.
They sponsor Hamas terrorists, Hezbollah terrorists, ISIS terrorists, al-Qaeda terrorists, and Houthi terrorists. They have never met a terrorist they don’t like. They want to give millions of dollars to kill Christians and Jews.
But, of course, Biden came in, and all hell broke loose. He gave Iran billions and billions, and they got out of control.
Hamas terrorists took 250 hostages, and I think around 50 of them were Americans. We tried to negotiate for two weeks, saying, “Give us the hostages back. Give us the hostages back.”
They wouldn’t give them back. So Israel went in, and a horrible war happened.
That’s where we are today.
This is Friday, July 31. Yesterday, Thursday, July 30, this happened. I’m going to read what Trump wrote on Truth Social:
“Today, the Board of Peace reached a historic agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.”
“This is a monumental step toward lasting peace and security,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “The agreement represents a major milestone in implementing Trump’s 20-point plan.”
The city will no longer be used as a base for terror attacks.
Praise the Lord.
Under the agreement, Gaza will finally be in the hands of a new Palestinian government. Palestinians will govern themselves, and the government will serve the people, not Iran and not Hamas terrorists.
Trump then said, “I want to thank the mediators, Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, for their important efforts, and especially my outstanding team.”
Hours later, the Board of Peace released a statement:
“For the first time, Hamas officially has committed to an actionable plan for relinquishing all its weapons, which will be followed by Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. It holds the promise of delivering significant benefits to the people of Gaza, who have waited for too long for a better future, and security to the people of Israel.”
The Board of Peace said the next phase in Gaza begins a transition toward full authority while accelerating efforts to establish the rule of law, improve security, and advance humanitarian conditions.
The agreement concludes months of intensive, good-faith negotiations to advance President Trump’s vision for establishing new governance, security, humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and economic recovery in Gaza, as set out by the comprehensive peace plan and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803.
Basically, in a nutshell, Hamas agreed to stop fighting, stop killing people, put down its weapons, and let the United Nations bring in a governing body of Palestinians who will govern them.
They’ll have a government. We’ll give them the money. The money is going to come mostly from the United States, but there will be other countries giving money to help reconstruct Gaza and help Palestine live freely without the rule of terrorists.
Israel agreed to withdraw.
Throughout my lifetime, I have been watching this. Christians in the West have been battling Islamists since the seventh century. As part of their jihad, which they believe is a holy war, they are allowed to lie. Their religion tells them that, to advance jihad, they are commanded to lie.
So, is Hamas lying?
Maybe.
Maybe they realize they can’t win. They are completely defeated because they have always had Iran’s backing. We always said Iran couldn’t get a nuclear weapon and that Iran was the number-one state sponsor of terrorism, but we never had a leader who really did anything to Iran.
Now Iran is weakened. Of course, propagandists on the Michael Lofton show are going to tell you otherwise. But they are a freaking wreck. Their military is a wreck. Their government is a wreck. They are a wreck.
Hamas doesn’t have all this money coming in anymore. Maybe they realize they should stop fighting today and live to fight another day. Maybe that is their philosophy right now. Maybe they think, “We just have to regroup.”
Whatever it is, there is hope for peace in Gaza.
Yesterday, Hamas agreed to this. Pray that this lasts and that there is a lasting peace. Only God can give true peace.
We like to talk about politics and geopolitical issues. Everybody has their strategies and their opinions, and that is what I love about America. We still have free speech here.
I never get angry with people who disagree with me. When they call my brothers in the Army terrorists, that gets me really upset, but that’s a different video. When they call the terrorists the good guys, that really gets me upset.
But the bottom line is that the only true peace comes from Jesus Christ.
Jesus said, “I give you peace, not as the world gives you peace.”
His peace is real.
I have slept like a baby every night since I started following Jesus. No matter what is going on around me, his peace is real.
If you don’t have peace in your heart, if you’re in turmoil, turn to Jesus. Turn to Jesus. Ask the Lord for his peace.
His peace is real.
This is how the apostles endured what they did. They didn’t have that fake religion that says, “If I have enough faith, I won’t get sick.”
No, no.
They knew that following Jesus meant they were going to be killed. All but St. John were killed. The early Christians were thrown to the lions, and it converted Rome because the Romans would watch them singing praises of Jesus and say, “These people are about to get ripped apart by lions. How do they have peace?”
They had peace because they knew Jesus.
TerreneGlobe’s Religion and Politics Editor discusses the Trump-brokered peace deal with Hamas on his own YouTube channel, Blue Collar Catholic Religion and Politics.
I’m not talking about following some religion. Jesus did start a church, one church, and historically, we can prove it is the Holy Catholic Church, the one, holy, apostolic Catholic Church. Others broke away.
He gives us that Church to help us know Jesus better.
Once you know Jesus, you know peace.
There used to be a bumper sticker I had years ago when I was a young, crazy, charismatic evangelical Christian. Now I’m a young-old, crazy, Catholic charismatic Christian, but I was a young Christian.
I had a bumper sticker that said, “No Jesus, no peace,” spelled N-O.
The next line said, “Know Jesus, know peace,” spelled K-N-O-W.
That’s a fact.
I have no reason to lie to you. Jesus loves me. He gave me peace. All he asks of me is to tell you that he loves you and wants to give you peace.
Trust Jesus today. Get to your local Catholic parish. Talk to a priest. Talk to a good Catholic you know who has this peace, and ask them:
“Pray for me. Help me get this peace.”
I’ve got to go to work.