When I saw the image of Lindsey Graham standing in front of an Israeli flag, next to the Israeli leader, holding up a sign that says “more for Israel,” I thought it was a joke picture.
It just seemed like it couldn’t possibly be real.
But it is.
There is a video of it. He explains the sign.
Netanyahu’s laugh at the end is the best part.
Lindsey tweeted himself to explain the sign! It means “more American taxpayer money for Israel’s defense.”
Lindsey Graham, who is often known as “GRIDS Graham” due to his closeted homosexuality, is a US Senator. He went to a foreign country, and held up a sign demanding that Americans send more money to this foreign state.
This is a really, really weird thing.
Think of it:
Can you imagine a Chinese politician flying to Serbia and holding up a sign for Chinese people saying “More for Serbia”? A Mexican politician in Malaysia, calling for “More for Malaysia”? A Japanese politician in Iceland, calling for “More for Iceland”? Whatever your politics are, politicians going to a foreign country and demanding their home country send money to that country has to be among the most nutty things we’ve seen yet.
What appears to be happening:
The Republicans have staked their brand on being ultra-pro-Israel. The Biden Government is super pro-Israel. In response, the Republicans have gone double-ultra-pro-Israel. Lindsey said in the poor quality and weird video he recorded with Bibi that “Israel is the eyes and ears of America” and that “no one has done more to protect America than Israel.” This is a nonsense statement, and it is in fact a sick insult to Australia number one, and Britain number two, which are literally “our greatest allies.”
You should tell people that, when they say “Israel is our greatest ally” – tell them that Australia has sent troops to every one of our wars since the First World War, including Vietnam. They also fought in the Russian civil war against communism.
In the mid-2000s I once met an old Australian guy who told me his son died in the Iraq War. I waited a minute as you do out of respect for when someone says something like that and tried to process the statement. Eventually I said: “was his mother an American?” Never in my life had I thought that Australia had sent troops to Iraq – and I was pretty up on politics at the time (I listened to Alex Jones, etc.).
Of course, I had never heard of the sacrifices the Australians have made for America on the American media. I’d heard a whole lot about Israel. One might guess that this is because the American media is controlled by Jews and not Australians.
Israel didn’t even send troops to either one of the Iraq wars – wars that were literally fought on their behalf.
Saying “Israel is our greatest ally” is nonsensical and it is deeply disrespectful to Australia, people who actually fought and died for our alliance.
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