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Jerusalem: Secretary of State Marco Rubio It insists that despite Israel’s strike against Hamas negotiators last week, U.S. relations with Israel remain unchanged.
“We will continue to be strong allies and partners,” Rubio swore in an exclusive and extensive interview with Fox News in Jerusalem. “As the president said, he was not happy with the way things happened. That doesn’t mean we’re going [to] Stop being their companion and ally. ”
Rubio told Fox News that he will now travel to Doha on Tuesday and he will urge Qatar to continue playing a “constructive role” in ending the Gaza war and ensuring Hamas still has the release of hostages.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette Doustebes arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport near Lod, Israel on Sunday, September 14, 2025. (Nathan Howard/Pool Photo via AP)
“We’re here again soon the next day, too,” Rubio said. “We know they’re upset about it. We understand Israel’s position. Regardless of that, we still have hostages we want to release. We still have a Hamas that needs to be defeated or eliminated or removed so that we can achieve the peace that everyone says they want.”
Rubio heads to Katar, which is the main non-NATO Ally is on the second day of the country’s Arab-Islamic summit on the Israeli strike. The draft resolution of the summit blames Israel for “threatening the prospect of peace and coexistence in the region”.
“We are trying to keep everyone focused on what is moving forward, not just what happened in Doha last week,” Rubio told Fox News. “We want everyone to focus on what is going on,” he said. [what] Next, because we still have these problems that must be solved. ”
Smoke rolled after the explosion in the capital of Doha, Qatar, Qatar, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025. (Jacqueline Penny/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)
Rubio declined to say whether the United States supports Israel’s plans to carry out annexation plans in the West Bank, but accused the state of forcing Israel’s hands to say they will recognize the Palestinian state.
“We warn that this will force Israel to react to this now and I think part of the dialogue on annexation is for Europe and Canada There are other countries that act with this Palestinian nation, which is largely symbolic, but has these real-world implications in making peace difficult. ”
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Triumits from European countries met almost Sunday during ongoing talks with the United States and Russia. (https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/08/trump-putin-trileral-summit-coalition.jpg)
Rubio denies Russian President Vladimir Putin Despite the recent attacks on Russian drones in Poland and Romania, his summit with President Trump last month was “bold”.
“This is an example of what the president thinks this war needs to end. Wars usually escalate. In fact, they get worse, not better,” Rubio told Fox News. “Understanding these drone operations are far from the frontline. They have no effect on the frontline. They are largely intended to weaken each other, and Ukraine There is also a strike in Russia, which is one of the reasons why the president says he hopes the war ends. ”
Rubio also announced information about the U.S.’s announcement last month of the $50 million reward to obtain the head of Nicolas Maduro for arrest.
Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela led the 22nd anniversary of the late President Hugo Chavez, and on April 13, 2002, Hugo Chavez returned to power in Caracas, Venezuela. (Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Archive Photo)
“Nicolas Maduro is sued by the Southern Region New York. The grand jury returned to indictment. They read the evidence and saw the evidence, and they not only launched an indictment against him personally, but also targeted the network of people in that country, who they used the agency that they claimed was the government’s drug trafficking operations against the United States. ” Rubio said.
“He is not the president of Venezuela, that’s what he gave himself the title,” he added. “He is a person who gives himself certain tools of government and they are using it to run the drug cartels in Venezuelan territory.”
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“When you ship drugs to the United States, you are interfering in the internal affairs of the United States, and when you push drugs to the United States of America, you are a direct threat to national security and the national interests of the United States. That’s the problem we’re addressing here.”
