US Secretary of State Marco Rubio asserted that the Western countries who announced plans to recognize a Palestinian state in recent weeks are doing so for internal political reasons.

Speaking in an interview with WABC Radio�s Sid & Friends in the Morning, Rubio said, �It�s symbolic, and they�re doing it primarily for one reason, and that is their internal politics, their domestic politics. In the UK, in France, in many parts of Europe and Ireland, for a long time their domestic politics have turned anti-Israel or whatever it may be, and they�re getting a lot of domestic pressure to do something.�

�The truth of the matter is that the future of that region is not going to be decided by some UN resolution…or some press release by a prime minister or a president from some country. It�s going to be decide when Palestinian areas are not governed by terrorist organizations.”

“Because that�s truly what this comes down to, and that is the security of Israel,� Rubio stressed.

(YWN Israel Desk�Jerusalem)