I have created the most successful peace framework anyone has ever seen, a beautiful framework, a tremendous framework, and the very first thing that happened after I announced it was that Israeli attacks killed at least 14 Palestinians in Gaza, including four children, according to WAFA. This is not a problem. This is what experts call a HISTORIC success. People are saying the bombs are actually the sound of peace arriving, very loudly, because peace has never arrived with such tremendous explosions before.
Israel has attacked Gaza every day since Thursday, when I announced a tentative agreement under which Hamas and other militant groups would disarm if Israel withdrew its troops. Turkey says more than 30 civilians were killed in attacks on health facilities after the framework was announced. Hospitals are where peace is made. Nobody understands that better than me. That is why I had them targeted—I mean, why I had them protected—very strongly protected. Nickolay Mladenov, the director general of my Board of Peace, says his team is working around the clock with the parties, mediators and regional partners to de-escalate. I know de-escalation. I invented de-escalation. I have the best de-escalation, except when other people keep escalating it.
I had a deal. A very good deal. The best deal. You can read about how I announced the disarmament framework and see that it was perfect from the beginning, exactly what I always said it would be, although I did not always say it would be this exact kind of perfect. That is called strategic flexibility. In business, they call it negotiating. In Washington, they call it leadership. In Gaza, apparently, they call it another day of attacks.
The smart people are telling me that the agreement is still alive because I announced it, and anything I announce remains alive until I announce that it was dead, at which point it becomes a dead agreement that I intentionally created in order to win later. This is 4D chess, the highest level of chess, while everybody else is playing checkers with buildings that are already damaged or destroyed. More than 81% of Gaza’s buildings and structures have been damaged or destroyed, which proves my reconstruction plan is the most ambitious plan in history. You cannot reconstruct a place unless there is something to reconstruct. Very simple. Many people, very smart people, are saying this is why I am a GENIUS.
Itamar Ben-Gvir says the agreement is unacceptable to Israel and that the targeted killings must continue, emigration must be encouraged and Israel must win. He is a strong man, a loyal man, a man who understands that the best way to preserve a peace agreement is to reject it immediately and keep doing the thing the agreement was supposed to stop. Weak people would call that a contradiction. I call it a negotiating position. If you say no loudly enough, everyone knows you secretly said yes, especially if the health facilities are still being hit.
Turkey says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is obstructing lasting peace and seeking to displace Palestinians from their homes. Mohammad Dahlan says Netanyahu is trying to kill the opportunity I worked on with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. If Netanyahu is killing the opportunity, I made the opportunity killable. That is called leverage. Nobody has better killable opportunities than me. We are all using different words to describe the same tremendous victory, which is exactly how you know the Deal is working.
My Board of Peace includes 28 countries, which is a bigger crowd than most peace plans have ever had, bigger than Lincoln’s crowds, bigger than the crowds of people who say I should stop talking about crowds. The plan is tied to a 20-point program for stabilization and reconstruction, and the reconstruction bill is around $70 billion. Nobody has ever seen a number like that. They have destroyed 81% of the buildings and I have 70 billion of the dollars. Together, that is called a full cycle. The greatest full cycle in history. I have the biggest number. The other side has the buildings.
And now the attacks continue, the children are among the dead, the hospitals are being struck, and my envoy is working around the clock to create space for implementation. Why are they still listening to me? I mean, they are listening because I am the greatest negotiator in history, and because peace is going to make us all very rich—me, I mean US, especially me, but for the people, always for the people. They believe the plan because I say the plan works. They would believe anything I say—no, that is unfair, they are not stupid, they are the smartest people, the BEST people—because I am the smartest person, and this is the greatest peace that has ever failed to stop a war!