From the Middle East to our own hemisphere? What happened Senator Rubio?
On the 13th of May, 2014, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014, a bipartisan effort to block the terrorist organization’s financing and limit the group’s access to logistical support.
According to them, Hezbollah has been a dangerous and destabilizing force in the Middle East and around the world for more than three decades, committing countless acts of terrorism, violence and intimidation.
“From the Middle East to our own hemisphere, Hezbollah, backed by its state sponsor Iran, threatens the United States, our allies, and our interests,” Senator Rubio
SHAHEEN, RUBIO INTRODUCE HEZBOLLAH SANCTIONS LEGISLATION
However, on January 6th 2015, Sen. Rubio Urges Kerry to Call for al-Wefaq Leader’s Release. Seems a little odd following his statement less than a year ago stating; “This legislation highlights the diverse illicit activities Hezbollah engages in to finance its operations and ensures that the United States is using all the tools at our disposal to shut down its networks, wherever they exist.”
What about the network in Bahrain? It certainly exists. Has a few months changed the Senators view where he acknowledged the dangers of Hezbollah as a dangerous and destabilizing force in the Middle East and yet is ignorant to same in Bahrain?
Senator Marco Rubio’s letter to Secretary of State John Kerry to “personally urge the government of Bahrain to immediately release AlWefaq’s Secretary General Ali Salman for merely exercising his God-given rights to freedom of expression and assembly, and to drop all charges against him and other Bahrainis” comes either as a hypocritical stand or a stand that makes no sense given his active stand against Hezbollah, which he labels as a terrorist organization.
One would question if the Senator knows Ali Salman and the link he has with Hezbollah. Or perhaps it is in his interest to turn a blind eye?
Ali Salman(left) Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah (right)
“Hezbollah is one of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations and we must block the group’s access to financial and logistic support,” Senator Shaheen. “In addition to being responsible for the murder of hundreds of American citizens, Hezbollah continues to sponsor terrorism across the globe and destabilize the Middle East, particularly through its support to President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime in Syria. This legislation makes clear that Hezbollah’s supporters and enablers will face consequences.” Read the rest here and here.
Perhaps Senator Rubio forgets how many marines died, many from his own district of Florida.
In a recent video Nasrallah, Secretary General Lebanon Hezbollah, incites people to fight and calls for the release of Ali Salman.
Will the Senator change his stance now or diffuse the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act of 2014?
