Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday declared that “we’re in a religious war” and called for Israel to “level” the Gaza Strip, home to over 2 million people, including about 1 million children.
“We’re in a religious war here. I am with Israel. Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place,” Graham said on Fox News. The hawkish senator posted a clip of his call for the destruction of Gaza on X.
Since Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel, Graham has been leading the charge in the US, calling for major escalations. On Monday, he said the US should bomb Iran if Hamas kills Israelis it has captured and brought into Gaza.
“For every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery,” Graham said. “The only way you’re gonna keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable.”
Graham has said Iran was involved in the Hamas even though the Israeli military has said it has no evidence to support the claim. Hamas and Iran have also denied any Iranian involvement in the operation.
“I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians,” he added. “Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals … If I was Israel, I would go in on the ground. There is no truce to be had here. I would dismantle Hamas.”
A childless, godless coward proposing genocide. One can only imagine the skeletons in his closet.
Lindsay Graham is one of the most ugly politicians currently not serving the people. His long time buddy John McCain had a shred of decency and integrity that is totally lacking in a Zombie or Vampire like Graham.I am sure if he is ever convicted of something he will find a home with the Zionist murderers.
I look forward to him rejoining McCain. Can’t come soon enough.
McCain had zero integrity.
He did have to admit waterboarding was torture… Not total redemption but a shred.
That should not have made me laugh.
He is the true face and nature of the American federal government
childless
Thanks be to God for that!
But now he aims for other people’s children.
No doubt he invested heavily in the weapons manufacturers..
I would agree with on 15 years ago. But now he is just sick.
Exactly why are WE in a religious war?
There’s one going on, but it’s a generations-old hatred
we ought have no part in.
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. – Martin Luther King.
Actually I believe it was Ghandi whom said it.
It’s not. Thre real reason is too many people and too few resources. Bibi wants them out and/or dead, and this is his golden opportunity.
“Bibi wants them out and/or dead, and this is his golden opportunity.”
Ryan Grimm on Breaking Points:
Vs. past ‘military response will avoid civilians’ language in advance of Israeli bombing – no such language by either Israel or Biden now.
“Palestinian Activist On NIGHTMARE Future For Gaza”
It is also the golden opportunity for the Palestinians and Iran to get rid of Israel completely. I am expecting escalation to a 4-front war. Israel can obliterate Gaza if fighting them alone, but a full invasion from Hezbollah and Syria, and a full revolt in the West Bank at the same time is probably too much to handle. Combine that with millions of missiles from Iran, and Israel may well come to an end. Of course, Israel will act like Samson and use all its nukes, but so what?
Syria is an economic and military basket case, after 10 years of western-fomented civil war; they aren’t invading anyone.
Iran has many many missiles,but not”millions”
“Iran has many many missiles,but not’millions'”
keep it down – you’ll disturb his pleasurable fantasy of regionwide slaughter culminating in nuclear annihilation
Your possible prognosis gets stronger every day.
So what if 6 million more Jews die in a new holocaust, this one their very own nuclear one? That ranks with Hitler.
“Israel will…use all its nukes, but so what?”
“So what”? Sick fhuk.
The Palestinians didn’t start this so called religious war. It was imposed upon them when the US forced the UN to dispossess the Palestinians of their lands. We have been part of it since the first moment. We have played big part in making sure that the hatred never ends.
The British Rothschild Empire started their plot for their homeland with the Balfour Agreement in 1920..with their(and the US Banksters) Globalist United Nations they created out of thin air what is now the Nation AND UN! STATE of Israel in 1948. Ever since has been controlled and FINANCED the ugly “Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace” Financial and RELIGIONS Globalist freedom-crunching Hegelian Dialectic…the LYNCHPIN of the perpetual Falseflag NEEDED to promote and AUTHORIZE International CONTROLLED and ENFORCED “PeaceFORCNIG” on ALL SIDES…dousing the “conflict” with the GASOLINE of hatred, religious anger, and GLOBALIST MIC-backed INTERVENTION….all gearing up to the FINAL COUNTDOWN…..will be ugly soon enough…with alleged US NEED to be involved…and the HELL with the Constitution and the OATHTAKING of US officials, soldiers and judges……smh
And what does he believe in?
Mammon
I don’t know the cracker’s confession/association. but saying “Level Gaza” is no very wise and could make someone think level D.C. I wonder how many Russian or China SUBS lurk just off the coast that could level Washington D.C.?????
Graham, The American Medvedev.
Not at all; Medvedev is a lucid leader who makes strong, sensible statements.
lucid leader who makes strong, sensible statements?
Yes, only in your fantasy world.
What a dullard, still trotting out the old standby “Religious war” to get the masses all riled up. It’s never about religion, it is however about land, oil, minerals, water, and in some cases, off shore natural gas discoveries.
A most accurate informative point. It is always about the money where the US is involved or not.
Under Netanyahu, they are attempting to promote Jewish law v secular.
Well, if you are a worshipper of Beelzebub, I suppose that supporting this war is part of your religion.
I think they should offer Graham the opportunity to kill a Palestinian child on live TV with nothing but his hands and teeth. Same with the other war mongers.
Graham talks as if he’s an Israeli citizen.
Oh, I thought he was. He certainly represents them.
Aaron Maté: Lindsey Graham is “Senator Genocide.”
What you mean We?
Sick bastard…
Graham sure likes religious wars, over there and here at home. He has some responsibility for torpedoing the 2022 “red wave” by talking about national abortion bans. He needs to just shut up.
You mean STFU.
He is absolutely insane. He needs to be institutionalized; locked up in a rubber room, in a straightjacket. And, a gag.
I would add to your comment that this is true for a pretty large number of our elected politicians as well as those whom get appointed by the first group.
I have heard that Brian Wilson’s dad inserted himself into as much Beach Boys production work as he could manage, despite having no clue what he was doing, on their albums. So engineers and producers installed a sound-mixing board just for him – secretly disconnected from everything. Letting him fiddle and adjust ‘levels’ to his content while messing up nothing.
So perhaps (as Al Qaeda eventually did with ‘senile grampa’ Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan) the fix is to secret Graham to a bunker and let him command the USA on a vintage Commodore 64 connected to a black & white Zenith 13″ TV.
What? The squeaky clean Beach Boys are something. Charles Manson and Lindsey Graham, two psychopathic serial killers who got others to do their bloodletting.
“i like Helter Skelter.”
Manson wrote a song for them that they recorded, but I think changed the lyrics.
LOL!
Where is all the concern when Israel is brutalizing Palestinians? This lack of international concern in confronting Israel over this ILLEGAL occupation is the root cause of all this conflict. Israelis act like Nazis when it comes to “retribution”- 100 Palestinian lives for every Israeli life? If a woman is kept prisoner and raped everyday, without any legal recourse, what options does she have other than to strike out at her attackers?
It is too bad that the Palestinians are not equipped to extract an eye for an eye.
https://youtu.be/U7s5pT3Rris
This guy gets elected again and again. That’s worrying.
It’s illuminating.
yes it removes any lingering doubt about who and what Lindsay Graham is.
It removes a fair amount of doubt about who his constituents are, also.
South Carolina is as bad as Mississippi and Texas.
“[Graham] added…’Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals'”…
…calls for joint Israeli-US military ‘Operation Righteous Cleansing.’
This from an elected official many times in a country that wiped out the Native Americans,brought millions of Africans to slave in the cotton fields raped and whipped by their masters and still is denying women their rights.
If anyone else said something like this about any other people , everyone from politicians, celebrities, newspapers, and common people in the US, in Europe especially France, and Canada would condemn every word said.
Meanwhile, anyone showing any type of support towards the Palestinians is threatened, intimidated, and fired from his job, school, and labeled antisemitic.
Obey your masters
This stooge’s God is mammon from the military industrial complex…
Its not religious . Its about land .
But Israeli god is territorial so this man might be right . Lindsey should be careful in choosing his polemic .
To relieve pain in one area ,sometimes. one is forced to try to stimulate or even cause pain in another area .
In society and country , this happens also .
We call it exporting the internal tension .
Israel has been doing this at least from post Oslo period .
Labors illfated policies of allowing settlements in post 1967 Israel allowed most crudest fundamental parties of Israel to emerge and to creep up on the lay of the political lands .
In 1996 Hamas saved Israel by engaging into bombing campaigns . Israel made sure that its brutal policies would call for similar responses from the victims .
This Hamas was created by Israel in 1988 to raise challenges to secular PLO.
PLO was genuflecting and kowtowing. Hamas dis not .
Again this time Hamas is rising to occasion to save internecine fights that have engulfed Israel .
For last 11 months ,Israel has been fighting against each other over the very nature of its existence . To cover and protect itself from self – destruction, Israel required external threat . Israel pummeled Palestinians children women and elderly and disabled in every way possible after desecrating their cultrual and religious sites and enggaing into tortures . External threat was created and recreated by Israel .
Now Hamas has united them .
Egypt passed information to Israel 10days ago. Israel ignored it . It had to .
But does Palestine see any alternative ?
Hamas may want to save Israel.
Israel May want to use Hamas.
But the atrocities that being inflicted everyday on Palestine including in life , families , societies,religious shrines ,graves and on the future generations leave no alternative but to respond .
Torture and violence meet torture and violence .
So we though may entertain the idea that Hamas is fanatic ISIS ,or is also helping Israel export its internal tension and bringing the Israelis together , Israel itself has been trying to provoke Palestinians for years redoubting the efforts in every day . Israel knows that it’s society is based on flimsy premises and flimsy premises allow all kinds of even diametrically opposite stake holders .
These stake holders are tearing the nation apart .
What does Israel do ? Double down on its age old premises — everybody hates us .
That hatred explains why Palestinians don’t want their houses to be demolished , kids to be blinded , tortured and killed in jail ,and pregnant women be prevented from accessing hospital .What Israel sees as hatred is the expression of anger and desolation to the daily humiliation , expulsion ,destruction of cultural and educational centers and attacks .
Israel can’t stop doing it .
Even if tomorrow Palestinians were entirely removed from WB and Gaza. Israel will require this reaction from some one else.Israel will not be able to reconciliate the differences inherent in itself .
It will start same fights with Lebanon ,Syria and even Jordan .
It’s current engagement to Lebanon and Syria point to that possibility.
Israel has to create a Hamas.“
A very intelligent bunch of accurate remarks about the politics of Israel. they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
He better walk that ‘religious war’ comment back- and soon- before one or more Muslim nations and the Muslim diaspora take him at his word and unleash a full-blown Holy Jihad™ on the US, Israel, and their fellow travelers.
On another note, ‘leveling’ Gaza has already provided Hamas with ample terrain for an ‘Islamic Stalingrad’ situation if the Israelis decide to roll in on the ground (and they will have to). The IDF had a rough go of it in Lebanon courtesy of Hezbollah in the last round; Hamas will no doubt extract a much higher price this time.
Another war with the large Muslim population in the world is not a pleasant prospect.How stupid are are leaders? A purely rhetorical question.
Grahm is right. The Religious Zionists have taken over the government. These are the people who want to rebuild the Temple on the site of Al Aqsa.
“For every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery,” Graham said. “The only way you’re gonna keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable.”
So indirect involvement allows for those providing the indirect involvement to be attacked? Does that mean Russia would be justified in attacking American assests? Or would Iran have been justified during the Iraq/Iran war? Or are other countries not allowed to do what the US does? I know, silly question. Hamas are terrorists while those we back are all Jeffersonian democracies.
Senator Lindsay “Iran delenda est” Graham.
You have a wonderfull sense of humor
Graham is such an idiot. All he’s doing is pandering to wealthy donors (only a few of which actually salivate over Zionist aims) and far-Right Evangelical Christians (or do I repeat myself ?). The latter of which only support Israel because their mythology believes Israel MUST exist in order for the End Times to begin and Jesus to return and the LSD trip of Revelation to occur.
In among those events the EC’s also believe all Jewish people will convert to Christianity and accept Jesus as the Messiah and sunshine & roses. A point kept hush-hush to maintain the tenuous “Judeo-Christian” alliance.
I know everyone has the “right to vote”, but these EC people, (and their influence) are really scary.
The Evangelicals want so much for the USA to become a Christian theocracy. But they haven’t thought it through.
Suppose the USA did abandon its Constitution and go Christian Nation. Won’t the Evangelical Southern Baptists be surprised when the (despised) Catholics, Mormons, Protestants, and others of the 2000+ “not True” Christian variants show up to “their” place in Congress…
This has been the plan from the beginning. Every single Israeli government was working on the plan in stages. In recent years they started to do everything to push the Palestinians to respond in unprecedented ways to justify their desired objectives.
December 15, 1791: USA Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
The Establishment Claus guarantees separation of religion and government.
USA taxpayers supporting Israel is against the First Amendment of the USA Bill of Rights. It foster an “excessive entanglement” with other religions in The Levant/Palestine.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee Agenda: Pressure the USA administration to move the USA embassy from secular Tel Aviv to Biblical Jerusalem – as called for in the March 9, 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act, by Mr. SCHUMER: CONCERNING THE 3,000th ANNIVERSARY OF KING DAVID’S ESTABLISHMENT OF JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF THE JEWISH KINGDOM.
“3000th anniversary”. Adorable. As if the Bible is all verifiable dates – or even accurate ones.
This fool agrees with the worst of the jihadi crazies that this is a religious war which justifies mass murder of civilians.
That makes him our own ISIS. We ought to arrest him for that.
The US Air Force has leveled many cities so now it’s Israel’s turn.
. . . a current Gaza street scene here
“Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals”
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A. I wish people would stop abusing animals and taking animal’s name in vain.
B. I wish the feckless coward, Lindsey Graham, would shut his trap. He’s a bloated, bloviating, walking ignoramus. Oh yeah, and a warmonger. Long as he doesn’t have to fight himself.
I don’t know the cracker’s religious affiliation, but talk of religious war is a lie and provocation. It is a war of conquest and land theft gotten out of control!!!!!
Hamas’s charter cites its motivations as explicitly religious.
But did Graham include Hamas in “We”?
It is beginning to appear that MY prediction that Ukraine would be depleted by Christmas and unable to present any credible offense and will slip into further disarray and dissolution of any ability to make any gains whatsoever that are meaningful. Hamas has smashed any hope that Ukraine could defeat Russia that anyone stupidly harbored. The delusional Neocons are an incredible danger o the U.S., Europe who they have terribly weakened and to every living thing on planet earth with their reckless provocations of China and Russia while the U.S. is so weak.