A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Senior Senator is telling Israeli media that Americans aren’t aware of the true scale of the threats Israel faces.
During an interview with I24News, Sen. Marco Rubio offered context for his visit to the country this week.
“One of the things that drove me to visit here is I don’t think enough attention is being paid in the United States to what’s happening in the north of Israel, where tens of thousands of Israelis have been displaced from their homes, where kids have had to leave school because of a situation there with Hezbollah, which has, of course, increased since what happened on October 7th,” Rubio said in footage posted Saturday morning.
He added that “even as the situation in Gaza continues to unfold and the Israelis are going to do what they need to do in order to make sure that Hamas is no longer a threat, we have this looming situation in the north of Israel with Hezbollah that’s going to have to be addressed as well.”
The Senator, who met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu among other Israeli leaders during his latest trip to the country, contends “Hezbollah is multiple times more capable militarily than Hamas” with “not just an arsenal of rockets but of guided munitions.”
“And basically every single day there are alerts and launches against the north of Israel. So Hezbollah is a pre-existing threat that I think has now only grown.”
Rubio paints a picture of a terrorist group emboldened by Israel becoming isolated on the world stage due to negative reaction to the ongoing war with Hamas.
“The ability to immediately invade the north of Israel will be much, will be in very many ways driven by what their perceptions are of international support,” Rubio said.
“If they believe that Israel has exhausted all of its international goodwill and in particular support from the United States because of Gaza, they may very well feel like there’s no pressure on them and that they have all the leverage to continue doing what they’re doing and to make no adjustments in Lebanon.”
13 comments
My Take
April 27, 2024 at 1:08 pm
“If they believe that Israel has exhausted all of its international goodwill and in particular support from the United States because of Gaza, they may very well feel like there’s no pressure on them and that they have all the leverage to continue doing what they’re doing and to make no adjustments in Lebanon.”
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A message to Netanyahoo, not to us. Get out of Gaza.
Guam Might Tip
April 27, 2024 at 1:17 pm
Most college students or the George Floyd agitators could not find Gaza or Lebanon on a map. They are nothing more than zombies that listen to the bull horn or read on Fakebook. They really have no idea, but they like smoking dope, popping drugs, etc with all of their other hippie friends.
MH/Duuuval
April 27, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Please exit the 20th century and enter the present, 21st century. Or, hadn’t you heard?
Guam Might Tip
April 27, 2024 at 1:42 pm
Heard what? Just turn on the tv it’s all there. Now maybe CNN and MSNBC are putting the same effort on reporting this like they are doing on the Southern Border.
MH/Duuuval
April 27, 2024 at 1:52 pm
There’s plenty of reporting on the state of combat on the border between Israel and Lebanon. And, if you had been following the subject on some source other than Faux News or Epoch Times, you would know that many things Biden has done — some of which I don’t like — have been about keeping this area relatively pacified.
Dont Say FLA
May 1, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Yo, GMT, ain’t nobody can find Gaza IRL anymore. The place no longer exists.
Earl Pitts "RON'S OFFICIAL "UNOFFICIAL VPOTUS CAMPAIGN MANAGER" American
April 27, 2024 at 1:50 pm
Sage Wisdom from Marco,
Thanks for bringing all of our Great Nation’s anoying Dook 4 Brains Leftists “UP TO SPEED” on this All Critical subject,
EPA
Monday news
April 27, 2024 at 1:54 pm
Again one day we will have to say in the name of the father’s.
Communism and I don’t want to look at you and if I do I will **”* you
Joey
April 27, 2024 at 2:05 pm
Now go to gaza and see what happend there. Israel are not angels.
Guam Might Tip
April 27, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Who started the most recent fight? Like I have said before, Israel is going to finish it. Knock down the tunnels, eliminate the daily rockets into Israel, etc. Hamas is a terrorist organization. Vote them out of office people.
MH/Duuuval
April 27, 2024 at 8:04 pm
Hamas has terrorized the majority of citizens since they came into office and never held another election after the first. Netanyahu enabled Hamas as a cynical counterweight to the PA in the West Bank, which led the war criminal Netanyahu to ignore his own excellent intelligence that predicted the Hamas strike. Israel would be mistaken to go into Rafah. Allow the remaining Hamas who want to leave, to leave. Then begins the Herculean task of rebuilding, if the zionist element doesn’t try to purge the entire Palestinian population.
My Take
April 27, 2024 at 2:52 pm
Israel may feel good in having slaughtered a lot of Arabs in revenge.*
But much of the world has become repulsed at seeing Israel’s true face.
Was it worth it to Israel?
That turns out not to be the real question.
It was worth it to Netanyahoo to get attention off his criminality.
Trump must be green with envy.
Ocean Joe
April 30, 2024 at 9:29 am
How many did we slaughter invading Iraq? Some claim 50k Iraqis died in a stupid war with horrible consequences. Urban warfare in Falujah.
How about Assad in Syria. 500,000 dead, barrel bombs, chemical weapons. Millions forced to flee.
Did Israel have a choice? Did Hamas and Islamic Jihad spend the billions in foreign aid to help Arabs or to build a war machine and feather the nest of wealthy Hamas leaders?
The killing could stop quickly if Hamas releases the hostages and vacates as the PLO once fled Beirut.
In the north, Israel will have no peace without destroying Hezbollah. Iran throws gas on the fire. Arabs want no peace with Israel as they demonstrate repeatedly every time they catch their breath.
The Palestinians could have chosen peace, they chose eternal war instead.