“At the end of the day, Hamas is sitting there saying: We’re winning the PR war. We’ve got all these countries lining up on our side of this argument." The 140 heads of state threatening to recognize or ones that have already recognized a Palestinian state “can’t even tell you where this Palestinian state is,” US State Secretary Marco Rubio said in an interview with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade on Thursday. “They can’t tell you who will govern it. And I think number three, it’s counterproductive,” Rubio continued.
Rubio called the decisions irrelevant, saying that “it doesn’t mean anything.”“First of all, none of these countries has the ability to create a Palestinian state. There can be no Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to it.” Rubio likened supporting Palestinian statehood to being on the same side as Hamas, adding that it would be a reward for the terror group.
“At the end of the day, the Hamas side is the Palestinian statehood side.” Rubio said that Hamas is emboldened to hurt the ceasefire, hostage talks with these declarations. “If Hamas refuses to agree to a ceasefire, it guarantees a Palestinian state will be recognized by all these countries in September,” he said, adding that the declarations are clumsy. “At the end of the day, Hamas is sitting there saying: We’re winning the PR war. We’ve got all these countries lining up on our side of this argument. We’ve got leverage now. We shouldn’t agree to anything. We should keep this thing going. (Read More)
