The President's Daily Brief
May 27th, 2025: Hamas Pulls A Ceasefire Bait-And-Switch & Western Green Light for Ukraine
Tue, 27 May 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: Hamas announces support for a ceasefire proposal—but it turns out the U.S. never made the offer. We’ll explain what really happened. A new investigation exposes how the British government may have funneled millions to Hamas via UNICEF—and knew about it. Germany, France, the U.K., and the U.S. lift restrictions on Ukraine, allowing strikes deeper inside Russian territory. And in today’s Back of the Brief: North Korea arrests four officials after Kim Jong Un’s latest warship launch ends in public embarrassment. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Birch Gold: Text PDB to 989898 and get your free info kit on gold TriTails Premium Beef: Visit https://TryBeef.com/PDBfor 2 free Flat Iron steaks with your first box over $250 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What did Hamas announce regarding a ceasefire?
It's Tuesday, the 27th of May. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. We begin in Gaza, where Hamas just pulled a diplomatic sleight of hand, announcing support for a ceasefire proposal that the U.S. never actually made. We'll break it down.
Later in the show, a new investigation reveals that the British government may have been quietly funneling millions to Hamas through, well, UNICEF. Plus, a big win for Ukraine. Germany, France, the UK, and the US are all giving Kyiv the green light to strike deeper inside Russia.
And in today's Back of the Brief, heads are starting to roll, we knew they would, in North Korea after Kim Jong-un's prized new warship failed to launch in spectacular fashion. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. We'll start things off today with a bit of a confusing situation out of the Middle East, which of course means business as usual.
On Monday, a Palestinian official claimed that Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire proposal supposedly brokered by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff. According to the official, the deal included a 70-day truce the staged release of 10 living Israeli hostages, and the return of several bodies. Five captives would be released at the start of the ceasefire, with the other five released on the final day.
It also reportedly called for a partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently held in Israeli jails, many of them serving lengthy sentences. Now, it sounded like a major breakthrough, the kind of deal that could pause or even end one of the most brutal conflicts in the region in recent memory. But, well, there's always a but, isn't there?
There's a problem. Hamas was trying to pull off, what do they call it in Arabic? The old razzle dazzle, or maybe that's Farsi. I'm not sure. As it turns out, the deal that Hamas said it was agreeing to, well, never existed. Shortly after Hamas made its announcement, Witkoff responded publicly and forcefully.
In a statement to Axios, he said, quote, What I have seen from Hamas is disappointing and completely unacceptable. An unnamed Israeli official quoted by Reuters was even more blunt, saying, quote, No responsible government could accept such an agreement. So you say to yourself, what's going on here? And, in fact, is the old razzle-dazzle how they say it in Arabic.
Some analysts believe this was a deliberate move by Hamas, an attempt to present themselves as reasonable negotiators while putting public pressure on Israel and the U.S. It also may have been, frankly, a stalling tactic. As we reported yesterday, Israel's ground invasion is escalating rapidly. Every regular army infantry and armored brigade has now been deployed inside Gaza.
We're also learning more about the Israeli military's long-term objectives in the enclave. On Sunday, Israeli commanders announced a plan to take control of 75% of the Gaza Strip within the next two months. The goal is to corner Hamas into just a sliver of the territory, about a quarter of the Gaza Strip, and eventually eliminate the group's ability to operate altogether.
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Chapter 2: How is the UK reportedly funding Hamas?
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The bloc of emerging superpowers, including China and Russia, India and Iran, while they're meeting with the goal of displacing the U.S. dollar as the global currency. And they're calling this effort the Rio Reset. Now, as BRICS nations push forward with their plans, demand for U.S. dollars could decrease, of course, bringing down the value of the dollar.
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Just text PDB to 989-898 today. Welcome back to the BDB. In a bombshell Israeli news report, backed by internal documents from the UK, the British government has knowingly funneled millions in aid to Hamas-controlled ministries in Gaza through UNICEF. On Saturday, Israel's Channel 12 revealed that the UK is not only a top source of private donations flowing to Hamas,
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the UK’s support for Hamas?
Chapter 4: What military strategies are being implemented by Israel?
Under the plan, each Palestinian family would be required to send a representative to one of the aid centers every five days to receive assistance. But the system is, as you might imagine, already drawing criticism. The UN, well, they're never shy about criticizing anything, and other international aid groups have refused to participate.
Chapter 5: What is the situation with aid distribution in Gaza?
Hmm, that doesn't sound very humanitarian, arguing that the plan is too dangerous. They say it forces civilians to travel through a war zone for food and that it compromises their neutrality since Israel is controlling the aid. The rollout comes after a months-long blockade that led to severe shortages of food, fuel, and medicine in Gaza.
That blockade has led to widespread condemnation of Israel, including by some of its European allies, some of which are calling for sanctions against the Netanyahu government. All right, coming up after the break, new revelations about the UK quietly funding Hamas through UNICEF, and a battlefield boost for Ukraine as Western allies lift restrictions on strikes inside Russia. I'll be right back.
Hey, Mike Baker here. Now, you may have heard about this upcoming summit, but it's important and it's worth paying attention to. In July, there's going to be a global summit of the BRICS nations, and it's going to be held in Rio de Janeiro, which sounds very posh, doesn't it?
The bloc of emerging superpowers, including China and Russia, India and Iran, while they're meeting with the goal of displacing the U.S. dollar as the global currency. And they're calling this effort the Rio Reset. Now, as BRICS nations push forward with their plans, demand for U.S. dollars could decrease, of course, bringing down the value of the dollar.
And while this transition won't happen overnight, well, it does mark a pivotal moment when BRICS objectives move from possibility toward reality. So you ask yourself, well, what can you do to help protect your hard-earned dollar savings? I'd like to suggest one thing you could do is visit with the professionals over at Birch Gold Group.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the BRICS summit?
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Just text PDB to 989-898 today. Welcome back to the BDB. In a bombshell Israeli news report, backed by internal documents from the UK, the British government has knowingly funneled millions in aid to Hamas-controlled ministries in Gaza through UNICEF. On Saturday, Israel's Channel 12 revealed that the UK is not only a top source of private donations flowing to Hamas,
through Muslim charities, but has also channeled millions in taxpayer-funded aid through UNICEF, despite the agency's direct partnerships with Hamas-run ministries in Gaza. The cornerstone of the report is a classified 2022 document from the British Consulate General in Jerusalem titled, UK Humanitarian Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for Fiscal Years 2022 to 2026.
In it, the UK Foreign Office acknowledges the reputational risks of partnering with Hamas-controlled ministries. Yet, as Watchdog Group NGO Monitor notes, funding approvals continued all the same. The report goes further, signaling out London as what Israeli defense officials now call, quote, Hamas's financial capital in the West.
One Channel 12 journalist put it even more starkly, stating, quote, Britain is one of the three leading countries in the world, the other two being Muslim countries, in the volume of donations flowing from it to Hamas. The journalist added that, quote, more than a quarter of non-state funding for the terrorist organization comes from the British Isles.
At the heart of the controversy is UNICEF's cooperation with Gaza's Ministry of Social Development, known as MOSD, because, of course, we all love an acronym, which at the time was headed by senior Hamas official Ramzi Hamad. Hamad fled to Lebanon just weeks before the 7 October terror attack, how brave of him, and later issued a public defense of the attack.
By October the following year, he was openly calling for Israel's annihilation. Anne Hertzberg, legal advisor for NGO Monitor, told Channel 12 that UK government funds were routed through UNICEF, which then worked directly with MOSD.
She stated, quote, the British government is giving millions of pounds to the UN and especially to UNICEF, which works with the Ministry of Social Development in Gaza. She, of course, noted that the ministry is controlled by Hamas. Despite the UK's stated awareness of these ties, funding to UNICEF surged.
Hertzberg pointed out that the UK gave nearly 5 million pounds to UNICEF in 2023 and over 23 million in 2024. But when asked how much of that money was funneled into MOSD linked programs, she conceded, quote, Well, we're not sure because it's not fully transparent. Oh, well, that's because Hamas controls those funds.
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