Trump boasts about ‘bringing peace’ to Mideast, ‘first time’ in 3000 years

President declares that peace has come to the Middle East for the first time in 3,000 years, touting the end of the war in Gaza and the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program.

By World Israel News Staff

President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday to have brought “peace to the Middle East,” ending 3,000 years of war, while ignoring local conflicts and declaring the war in the Gaza Strip over despite periodic fighting between Israel and Hamas during the fragile ceasefire.

On Wednesday evening, the president addressed the nation in a televised speech, touting his administration’s achievements during 2025, including on the economy, border security, cost of living, and foreign policy.

“For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists and, above all, foreign nations, which took advantage of us at levels never seen before,” Trump said.

“They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard-earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America, released, really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocents. They caused war. They caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe.”

In listing his administration’s foreign policy achievements, Trump heavily leaned into his own claims that the war in Gaza has been definitively and permanently ended, and that peace has come to the Middle East.

“I’ve restored American strength, settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East, and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead,” Trump continued.

The president failed to note that the body of one of the remaining slain hostages, Ran Gvili, remains in the Gaza Strip.

During a Chanukah party on Tuesday, Trump repeated the mistaken claim, explicitly stating that all of the slain hostages have been returned to Israel, prompting the father of a slain IDF soldier to politely correct him.

While Trump has presented the end of the Gaza war as a fait accompli, Hamas has conducted a number of attacks on Israeli forces and attempted dozens of infiltrations into Israeli-held territory since the truce went into effect in October, prompting Israel to retaliate with airstrikes and artillery fire.

The president is pushing both sides to reach an agreement for the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza deal, despite major outstanding differences, including Hamas’ refusal to disarm and accept the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to the Gaza Strip.