US Senator Lindsey Graham stated that "if America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us," at a South Carolina Republican Party meeting on Wednesday.
“If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could. They have the capability to do that. They choose not to,” he said. “Hamas, they would commit genocide in 30 seconds. They just can’t.”
“Israel is not the bad guys. They’re the good guys. The bad guys are the radical Islamists who would kill everybody in this room if they could,” he added.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slams Graham
His remarks were slammed by conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claimed that he was saying the “quiet part out loud.”
“That is quite a statement and is an acknowledgment that nuclear-armed Israel is more than capable of defending themselves, by themselves, and not only defeating their enemies, but completely wiping them out!” She wrote on X/Twitter.
The Georgia representative argued that this mindset detracts from the “America first” policy that the Trump administration has pushed.
“The gross negligent consequences of America LAST decisions by MOST politicians in Washington DC has not only chained all of us and our future generations in debt, but eroded the value of our dollar, driven out of control inflation making life completely unaffordable, and is destroying the middle class and turning my children’s generation into the WORKING POOR!!!” she added.
Greene also asserted that Israel or Israel-aligned groups bankroll conservative influencers’ all-expenses-paid trips to the country.
“All hell broke loose when Tucker Carlson dared to show clean subways and well-stocked grocery stores in Moscow!”
Finally, she called Graham’s statement on “pulling he plug” a fear-mongering tactic.
“We don’t believe we go to heaven based on how much money we blindly give and how many bombs we drop on the secular government of Israel’s enemies,” she wrote.