“US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is convinced that the decisions of a number of European countries to recognize the Palestinian state will not be important, since such a state cannot be created without the consent of Israel. He called the intentions of these countries “counterproductive”.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Rubio on Fox Radio, European Truth reports
Direct Rubio language: “This means nothing. First, none of these countries can create a Palestinian state. The Palestinian state can be created without the consent of Israel. Second, they cannot even say where the state will be located. They cannot say who will manage it. And thirdly, I think it is.”
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Details: According to the head of the US State Department, such recognition only pushes the Hamas group to further escalation.
“Imagine you Hamas … You keep – you are still holding 20 innocent hostage people. You keep the bodies of more than 50 people you killed, raped and deal with them on October 7 2023. You sit somewhere in a tunnel like a coward, and then Palestinian statehood.
At the same time, he recalled that Hamas disagrees to the ceasefire. In this context, he criticized the UK’s statement about intentions to recognize Palestine if Israel does not go to a truce.
“If I were Hamas, I would say that you know, let’s not agree to the ceasefire. If Hamas refuses to agree to the ceasefire, it guarantees that in September all these countries will recognize the Palestinian state. So they will not agree to the ceasefire,” Rubio said.
He noted that many countries’ decisions to recognize Palestine are caused by domestic policy.
“But they are harming – they actually harm the case, they do not help, because their statement will change nothing, except for the encourage and rewarding Hamas, who now has all the reasons in the world not to agree to the ceasefire and not release these hostages,” Rubio summario.
Prehistory:
- On Wednesday, foreign ministers of 15 countries signed a joint declaration, which officially called for the recognition of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September.
- In addition, Portugal’s authorities plan to discuss the possibility of recognizing the Palestinian state in September.
- It is known that last week France announced the intention to recognize the Palestinian state and became the first country in the Seven Group. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sharply criticized these plans.