{"id":287447,"date":"2024-05-13T06:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T06:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287447"},"modified":"2024-05-14T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:26:49","slug":"us-senator-calls-on-israel-to-nuke-gaza-says-us-made-the-right-call-against-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=287447","title":{"rendered":"US senator calls on Israel to nuke Gaza, says US made the right call against Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 May 13, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>US Senator Lindsey Graham says Israel should drop nuclear bombs on Gaza to end the war and do \u201cwhatever\u201d it deems necessary in the aggression, drawing a comparison to when the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham, a South Carolina\u00a0Republican, suggested that Israel would be right to flatten the besieged Gaza Strip simply because the US did it to the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and killed\u00a0more than 200,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is it OK for America to drop two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end their existential threat war? Why was it OK for us to do that? I thought it was OK,\u201d he told NBC News on Sunday,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Israel, do whatever you have to do to survive &#8230; Whatever you have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham also urged US President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0to provide the occupying regime with more bombs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima, Nagasaki with nuclear weapons,\u201d he said, calling the atomic attacks \u201cthe right decision\u201d by the US.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive Israel the bombs they need to end the war. They can\u2019t afford to lose,\u201d the US senator added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;US should give Israel all bombs they need&quot;: US Senator Lindsey Graham\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pW67Sm7GfoA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The remarks came days after\u00a0Biden\u00a0claimed that he had halted a weapons shipment to Israel and that he might continue to do so if the regime launched a full-scale assault on Rafah, the southernmost Gaza city where 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering.<\/p>\n<p>Israel unleashed its US-baked Gaza onslaught on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least\u00a035,034 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 78,755\u00a0others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/05\/13\/725487\/Senator-Graham-Israel-whatever-Gaza-US-nuked-Japan\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham has urged Israel to \u201cdo whatever you have to do to survive\u201d. Including using nuclear weapons against Gaza. Graham&#8217;s advocating such extreme measures suggests that things are going really badly on the ground for Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":262822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287453,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287447\/revisions\/287453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/262822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}