You have this acute, immediate challenge of food and aid not reaching people, and you have existing distribution systems that could get them there.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
Ultimately the answer here is for this [war] to end, hopefully with the elimination of Hamas, because the people of Gaza deserve a more prosperous, peaceful future, which they will never have as long as Hamas exists.
I understand your point that it's not in sufficient amounts. But we were pleased to see that decision was made.
Believes that right now, you start threatening sanctions, the Russians will stop talking, and there’s value in us being able to talk and drive them to get to the table.
We believe that an acceptable deal with Iran is one in which they cannot enrich, because if they can enrich, they can weaponize.
No judge in the judicial branch can tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy.
I think people should be celebrating it, and I think people should be supporting it.
If, in fact, as many claim, they are in favor – I think there's evidence, absolutely, that people have been murdered, that people have been forcibly removed from their properties.
The president's preference is to achieve that through a peaceful negotiation.
I would determine that these people are having their properties taken from them.
Ultimately, one of the things that could help break this logjam, perhaps the only thing that can, is a direct – direct conversation between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
If Hamas surrenders and gives up their weapons and demilitarizes and releases all the hostages, this conflict would end.
If those papers have ideas on them that are realistic and rational, then I think we know we've made progress.
We have a right to take away visas and indicated the practice could continue.
We're not going to do anything to undermine Israel and its security but by the same token, if there is a possibility here to find a way forward that frees more hostages, including those who are alive but also the bodies to their relatives…
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