Marco Rubio Wants to End Funds to Groups Working With Hamas

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, launched the Palestinian and United Nations Anti-Terrorism Act of 2014 on Thursday. Rubios bill would cut off American funds to the Palestinian Authority, United Nations Human Rights Council, and other U.N. operations in the Middle East until they stop working with Hamas.

The United Nations has turned a blind eye to Hamas use of its facilities to terrorize Israel, said Rubio. But the targeting of innocent Israelis by Hamas and other terrorist groups cannot be denied, and it cannot be ignored not by the United Nations, and certainly not by America. So long as the Palestinian Authority refuses to dissolve its current government with Hamas, and the United Nations continues to allow its facilities to be used to conduct terrorism, U.S. assistance to these entities needs to reflect our concerns about their behavior.