Senator Lindsey Graham compares Israel’s war on Gaza to US dropping nuclear bomb on Japan

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham railed at a Senate hearing after US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the Biden Administration was pausing an arms shipment to Israel.

In a testy exchange, he tried to compare Israel’s war on Gaza and the staggering civilian death toll to the US’s decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan. He repeatedly questioned whether Austin would have supported dropping a nuclear bomb in order to end WWII.

“This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids,” he added, arguing that Israel needed to use whatever weapons systems it wants in order to finish the war in Gaza.

“Everybody around them wants to kill all the Jews," Graham said. “If we stop weapons necessary to destroy the enemies of the state of Israel, we will pay a price…it is absurd."