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Lee Heidhues 7.27.2026
May Lindsey RIP because the World will no longer have to read about his slavish antics to serve the interests of Netanyahu and Trump and their criminal warmongering to destroy the Peoples of Palestine and Iran.
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 7.27.2026
TEL AVIV—The sudden passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham has deprived Israel of a rare friend—one who was both an ardent supporter and politically powerful—at a time when energetic factions in the Republican and Democratic parties are turning against the country.
The South Carolina Republican was one of Israel’s most effective advocates in Washington, and he leaves behind bilateral ties that are stretching, if not snapping, amid the controversy over Israel’s wars in Gaza and Iran.
War lovers Lindsey and Bibi
“This is in a way the changing of the guard,” said Jonathan Rynhold, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University in central Israel. “It is hard to imagine anyone on the Republican side with more political heft.”
Graham, who will be honored at a funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral on Tuesday, served as a conduit between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump. The senator helped persuade Trump to attack Iran in February, including by coaching the Israeli leader on how to lobby the president for action, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.
Netanyahu is expected to attend the funeral and meet with Trump, a win for the prime minister after weeks of lobbying for a White House sit-down.
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