Secretary of State Marco Rubio is “absolutely right” that there won’t be peace in Gaza until the territory is governed by people not interested in destroying Israel, former Ambassador James Jeffrey told Newsmax on Monday.
“What you also cannot do is let the Palestinian Authority govern because they were in charge between 2000 and 2005 — when Israel withdrew — and 2007, when Hamas violently overthrew them,” Jeffrey, who was the U.S. ambassador to Albania, Turkey and Iraq, said on “National Report.”
“So therefore, you have local Palestinians working with an international presence, and that international presence will be supported by the United States. It will have a security component; it will have other components, and the overall impact will be to provide the kind of international presence and oversight that we’ve seen in Bosnia, that we’ve seen in Kosovo, that we’ve seen in other places.”
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