Marco Rubio’s Response to Kerry’s Anti-Israel Speech Will Make You Fist-Pump!
Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla. blasted Secretary of State John Kerry’s “shameful” speech in a message posted to Facebook Wednesday.
“Secretary Kerry today once again decided to cater to the demands of freedom’s enemies and devote an entire speech to disparaging a country that is one of our closest allies,” Rubio wrote. He accused the Obama administration of abandoning American values abroad. “When we fail to take a stand against those that seek to deny #Israel’s right to exist or try to question the Jewish history of Jerusalem, we hurt not just Israel but our own credibility.”
“The greatest immediate threat to the future of Israel is not a stalled peace process, or settlements, but the abandonment of the Jewish state by the current U.S. administration at a time when it needs America’s support more than ever,” Rubio declared.
“I look forward to working with President-elect Trump and his incoming team to restore our relationship with Israel to its proper place … This shameful episode in American foreign policy cannot end soon enough,” he concluded.
Senator Tim Scott, R-S.C. (B, 89%) also condemned Kerry’s speech, characterizing the Obama administration’s proposals as “a path to pain.”
Secretary Kerry says he wants a path to peace, but this speech was a path to pain. Full statement below. #Israel pic.twitter.com/ho3YvBohEV
— Tim Scott (@SenatorTimScott) December 28, 2016
Republicans in Congress are calling to defund the United Nations in light of the anti-Israel resolution passed last week.
“Twenty-two percent of the United Nations budget comes from the American taxpayer, and I’m going to lead the charge to withhold funding until they repeal this resolution,” Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (F, 30%) told CNN.
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) promised congressional action in conversation with the Washington Free Beacon.
“The disgraceful anti-Israel resolution passed by the UNSC was apparently only the opening salvo in the Obama administration’s final assault on Israel,” said Cruz. “President Obama, Secretary Kerry, Ambassador Power, and their colleagues should remember that the United States Congress reconvenes on January 3rd, and under the Constitution we control the taxpayer funds they would use for their anti-Israel initiatives.”
Despite near hysterics from Secretary of State Kerry in opposition to Israeli settlements in traditional Israeli lands Wednesday, the next Congress and president are unlikely to continue Obama’s radical anti-Israel agenda. (For more from the author of “Marco Rubio’s Response to Kerry’s Anti-Israel Speech Will Make You Fist-Pump!” please click HERE)
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