President Trump “is going to back Israel’s decision no matter what they do.” Lindsey Graham’s Unusually Close Alignment With Netanyahu

Senator Lindsey Graham has a troubling history with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Taken together, Graham’s recent comments paint a clear pattern: he isn’t just backing Israel—he’s urging Washington to act as enforcer. Saying in Tel Aviv that Hezbollah should be disarmed “by military force” if it won’t comply, that “Hamas needs to go…this year,” and that President Trump will “back Israel’s decision no matter what they do,” signals a blank-check posture that sidelines debate. 

A day earlier he called defeating Hamas “non-negotiable” and told Lebanon that promises to disarm Hezbollah must be matched by action, pushing the region toward choices made with jets and tanks rather than negotiations. On Meet the Press, his Tokyo-and-Berlin analogy implied total war followed by reconstruction—an endgame measured in rubble and years, not weeks. 

He even floated economic punishment for Norway over its sovereign fund’s Caterpillar decision, showing that pressure won’t stop at borders or battlefields. Read as a whole, this is a roadmap where U.S. policy tracks Israeli preferences on pace, targets, and tools—raising the stakes for a wider fight with Iran’s network, squeezing dissent at home and abroad, and treating questions about cost, law, and limits as obstacles to be cleared rather than problems to be solved.

Here are Senator Lindsey Graham’s most recent on-the-record remarks about Israel (newest first), with dates:

  • Aug. 29, 2025 — In Tel Aviv, he said Hezbollah should be disarmed “by military force” if it will not disarm voluntarily, and added that “Hamas needs to go and they need to go this year.” He also said President Trump “is going to back Israel’s decision no matter what they do.” 

  • Aug. 28, 2025 — In an interview published the same week, he called defeating Hamas “non-negotiable” and urged that it be done “as soon as possible,” while welcoming Lebanon’s stated goal of disarming Hezbollah but warning that “words must be followed by action.” 

  • Jul. 27–28, 2025 — On NBC’s Meet the Press, he predicted Israel would “do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin — take the place by force, then start over again,” framing it as a shift to end the war with Hamas. Multiple outlets carried the quote and clip. 

  • Jun. 22, 2025 — Asked about Iran on Meet the Press, he relayed messages from Prime Minister Netanyahu and said that if he were Israel, he “would have [pursued regime change in Iran] a long time ago,” while adding he did not foresee U.S. ground troops. 

  • Aug. 29, 2025 — Related to Israel policy, he criticized Norway’s sovereign wealth fund for excluding Caterpillar over ties to Israeli operations and suggested the U.S. consider tariffs or visa limits in response. 


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