GOP Sen. Marco Rubio: You Want a Cease-Fire in Gaza? Hamas Just Surrender, that Would End the Conflict Immediately

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RUBIO: "Well, I continue to do everything that I can from my end to keep it from becoming that. I’ll be frank. I think the president is worried about losing Minnesota and Michigan. He's getting a lot of pressure from the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, a lot of activists and people like that. You know, he's getting heckled at speeches, he's hearing a lot of complaints, and so I think he's trying to have it both ways, still stick with Israel to some extent, but also do things that signal to these people and try to appease them. I saw yesterday, Secretary Blinken was overseas, protesters outside of his hotel. I saw at the State of the Union where these pro-Hamas people were trying to block the president from getting to the State of the Union. They’re under a lot of political pressure and that’s what’s happening here. But Israel has to win. They have 90,000 displaced Israelis in their own country just in the northern region because of Hezbollah, and who’s going to move back to any of these kibbutzes near Gaza unless Hamas is eliminated? You cannot have a country in which this threat continues to exist. They have to finish this job. And this fighting can end tomorrow. You want a ceasefire in Gaza, it's very simple. Hamas, just surrender. No one is calling for Hamas to surrender and lay down their arms. That would end the conflict. That would end the conflict immediately."