Fact-checking Trump’s speech to Israel’s Knesset

Fact-checking Trump’s speech to Israel’s Knesset

President Donald Trump celebrated the agreement between Hamas and Israel with familiar talking points and misleading attacks on his predecessors.

Trump spoke in Israel on the day that Hamas released all living Israeli hostages and Israel released Palestinian prisoners and detainees, framing the agreement he helped broker as a "historic dawn of a new Middle East."

"This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God."

Author's summary: Trump's speech to Israel's Knesset was fact-checked.

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