Rubio In Israel Says Hamas Must Be Eradicated, Casting Further Doubt on Cease-Fire U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a news conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025.Ohad Zwigenberg—AP By MATTHEW LEE and NATALIE MELZER / AP Updated: February 16, 2025 https://time.com/7225720/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-israel-hamas-must-be-eradicated/ JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled that he was moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza, calling it “the only viable plan to enable a different future" for the region. Netanyahu discussed the plan with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who kicked off a Middle East visit by endorsing Israel's war aims in Gaza, saying Hamas “must be eradicated.” That created further doubt around the shaky ceasefire as talks on its second phase are yet to begin. Rubio, in his upcoming stops in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is likely to face more pushback from Arab leaders over Trump's proposal, which includes redeveloping Gaza under U.S. ownership. Netanyahu has said all emigration from Gaza should be “voluntary,” but rights groups and other critics say that the plan amounts to coercion given the territory's vast destruction........ ........In another sign of closing ranks, Israel’s Defense Ministry said it received a shipment of 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) MK-84 munitions from the United States. The Biden administration paused a shipment of such bombs last year over concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza. Rubio said peace becomes impossible as long as Hamas “stands as a force that can govern or as a force that can administer or as a force that can threaten by use of violence,” adding, “It must be eradicated.”......
Trading faiths: how Marco Rubio's past could unite Christians and Republicans This article is more than 9 years old The Florida senator is presenting himself as a uniter of all denominations as he is being billed as the ‘establishment’ candidate to unite all Republicans Michelle Dean 6 Feb 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ist-fellowship-church-miami-republican-voters Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has followed Christ through three churches. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images The people Marco Rubio thanked in his speech after the Iowa caucuses on Monday night checked all the Oscars acceptance-speech boxes. He thanked the people of Iowa. He thanked his wife. He thanked Mike Huckabee, mostly for suspending his campaign. And twice, Rubio thanked “almighty God”. The senator from Florida, who is surging as the Republican establishment’s alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, identifies as Roman Catholic. But he tends to speak of faith in general terms whenever he can. In the party’s last debate, Rubio was asked how he felt about the people who thought he could save the Republican party from its current state. “Let me be clear about one thing – there’s only one savior and it’s not me,” he answered, somewhat eagerly. “It’s Jesus Christ who came down to Earth and died for our sins.” Though he is often accused by secular commentators of being “rather scripted” until he’s not, Rubio has a gift for the kind of rhetorical style evangelicals love. He comes by it honestly. As his campaign readily admits, Rubio also “sometimes” attends Baptist services at a church located in Palmetto Bay, California. A presidential candidate changing churches is hardly unusual. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rand Paul have all aligned themselves with different faiths throughout their lives. But as Rubio is being billed as the ‘establishment’ candidate, one positioned to unite all Republicans, understanding his evangelical faith – and specifically, the beliefs of the pastor who led him to adopt Christ Fellowship as his church – is critical. One only needs to look to Barack Obama’s controversial relationship with pastor Jeremiah Wright to understand how big an issue allegiances of faith can be. Rubio has followed Christ through three churches. Christened in the Roman Catholic church as a young child in Miami, he converted to Mormonism – the Church of Latter-Day Saints – at the age of eight when his family lived for a time in Utah. In his 2012 memoir, American Son, Rubio describes himself as the driving force of the change. “I immersed myself in LDS theology,” he writes. But the family eventually left LDS and returned to Catholicism. Rubio can be vague about what happened next, though he insists he continued to be a practicing Catholic and was married in the church. It was his wife, Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio, who first became involved with the budding Miami-area megachurch known as Christ Fellowship. Christ Fellowship Church in Miami. Photograph: Alamy The main attraction for Jeanette Rubio was the church’s pastor, Rick Blackwood, who Marco Rubio called “a gifted preacher very adept at connecting real-life experiences to biblical teaching”. It was Blackwood’s charismatic style, Rubio says, that pulled his entire family back to the word of God, himself included. “By the end of 2003, Christ Fellowship was the church where we regularly attended services,” he recalls in American Son, “and the church we tithed to as well. It was our church.” In choosing to worship at a megachurch – loosely defined as a church that claims more than 2,000 congregants – the Rubios are not alone. The Hartford Institute on Religion Research, an evangelical thinktank in Connecticut, reported last year that the median growth of megachurches over five years amounts to 26%. That is an incredible number in an age where fewer Americans identify as Christian. “They have great coffee and very comfortable seats instead of pews,” Scott Thumma, a professor of sociology of religion at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, said of the rising popularity of the megachurch. “They train their hospitality teams to be welcoming. They are intentional about creating a professional, high-quality worship service.”
Yawn..... same old, same old, American Christians, supporting genocide, bombing people into hell or heaven, whatever their delusional mind chooses.
"Bibi, me and my fellow Christians, we support you fully, we support genocide and ethnic cleansing, we support removing Palestinians and replacing it with our real estate developments."
"Oh by the way, China can just fuck off with their idea of grabbing Taiwan, land grabbing is only for the West, and maybe Russia (our buddy Putin) who wanna bit of Ukraine".
"Let me be clear about one thing - if I attend church regularly, the delusions rammed home from the pulpit becomes legitimate propaganda for my delusions going forward".
World's most moral army. So good: https://www.972mag.com/gaza-human-shield-mosquito/ imagine Hamas militants had done this to an elderly Israeli couple in their 80s.
So, a Jewish Zionist shot at 2 other Jews in Florida, thinking they were Palistinians. the Jews who got shot, knowing it was another Jew, actually claimed it was a case of anti-Semitism. Who the fkuc are they and how the f did they get this brainwashed?