Florida GOP Senator Marco Rubio stated that Israel will find “all the support” it needs in Washington D.C., adding, “We’ll have the mechanism to deliver it.”
Rubio made his comments while speaking with I24.
“I believe Hamas needs to be wiped out, but it’s not going to be easy,” he stated. “Urban warfare [conducted by] a nation that is going to rely on reservists, many of whom just got off a flight 48 hours ago – flying in from Miami, where I live, planes were full of reservists reporting for duty – it’s not [easy]. Urban warfare is difficult with groups that have tunnel systems and are willing to conduct long-term insurgency-type campaigns. As that develops, the material that Israel may need to resupply on might be different than what’s anticipated.”
“I think you’ll find all the support you need in Washington, and we’ll have the mechanism to deliver it,” he declared. “I think what’s important is that we understand that the baselines are already there. The authorities are already there. At some point, if more is needed – and it probably will be – we’ll need to know exactly what that is, and I don’t think there’ll be any impediments to getting it done.”
“There is no Hamas without Iran,” he commented. “All this talk about whether Iran knew that they were going to do this at 6 a.m. on Saturdays is irrelevant to the fact that Hamas would not have the capabilities to do the things they’re doing without Iranian support. Even if this money (the $6 billion the Biden administration released to Iran) hadn’t been released, this money was coming. They would have freed up other monies that they had available to them to continue to sponsor terrorism, not just for Hamas, but for ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and obviously for Hezbollah. [The Biden Administration’s reversal] is good news, and I’m glad that it’s happening, and I hope that will be a permanent move.”
“Basically, Israel is faced with an enemy that seeks their complete destruction,” he said. “They don’t seek to just govern Gaza. They want Israel wiped out, and they have shown that they are willing to massacre babies, and kidnap and abduct teenage girls, and kill their families, and slaughter and butcher. When a group has done that, you have no choice but to eliminate them and severely degrade them to the point where they can’t come back and ever do that in the future.”
“Embedded in all this, by the way, is that Hamas wants to become the dominant Palestinian faction in the region. They want to be the top dog, and all of this they view – these murders, this hostage-taking – as things that increase popular support for them at the expense of whichever rivals they’ve defined, whether it’s the Palestinian Authority or others. There is no way that the dominant Palestinian faction in the region can ever be a group that is willing to do what we saw them do just the other day and continue to do, and now, as cowards, run back into Gaza and not just hide behind civilians, but actively encourage civilians not to get out of harm’s away, and in many cases potentially impede them from getting out of harm’s way,” he said.
“It is an unfortunate situation. I don’t know what other options Israel has at this point but to do everything it can to make this a non-visible group. And I don’t think the United States has any choice but to be on Israel’s side of this fight against pure evil,” he concluded.
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“The way it is played out historically is, Israel is attacked, everyone rallies to Israel’s side, Israel does what it needs to do, and then all of a sudden, starting in Western Europe and then spreading even here in the United States, you start hearing calls of, you’ve done enough; it’s time to stop,” he asserted. “That’s where I think the real challenge is going to come.”
“I think we need to understand something very clearly. If Hamas is not eliminated, if Hamas is not substantially degraded, they will come back, and they will do this again, and they will do it worse, and other groups will look at this as an example of what they need to do, and they will do the same. We need to understand that if we don’t stop this now it won’t be 1,200 people. It could be thousands upon thousands of people that are murdered because they happen to be Jews living in Israel and are hated by these people.
“If this isn’t stopped now, it’s going to lead to more loss of life, more bloodshed. If we’ve learned anything from history, it is that if you don’t confront and defeat evil, evil will grow, evil will spread, and evil will come for you.”
