Marco Rubio: “There is no future. There can be no peaceful and prosperous…”

“This is a group that is a threat. If an ember survives, it will spark again into a fire. And that is the view of Hamas. There is no future. There can be no peaceful and prosperous Gaza as long as Hamas governs it by rule of arms. And that's a fundamental truth. Now, that doesn't mean that there isn't some way that we can achieve that through a ceasefire and some peace mechanism.” (13:44–13:52)

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