The White House will be lit up in white and blue on Monday night, hours after Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Biden to light up the executive building in the colors of the Israeli flag.
Graham noted that many world landmarks have done the same in a show of solidarity with Israel after Hamas terrorists launched a surprise attack on the Jewish state over the weekend that has left more than 900 Israelis dead and more than 2,150 injured.
“I urge the Biden administration to drape the White House tonight with the Israeli flag. You did it for pride month. I want to see the Israeli flag over the White House,” Graham said during an appearance on Fox News.
New York’s Empire State Building, Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, London’s UK Parliament building and Paris’s Eiffel Tower are among the famous structures that have been lit in the colors of the Israeli flag since Saturday’s attack, Israel’s largest. in 50 years.
“I urge the Biden administration to drape the White House tonight with the Israeli flag. You did it for a proud month,” Graham said Monday.Getty Images Biden has condemned Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel. AP
Minutes before midnight on Monday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced that the White House would do the same.
Biden, 80, has condemned the Hamas attack and said the US government “stands ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the Government and people of Israel.”
“The United States strongly condemns this horrific terrorist attack in Israel, which has claimed the lives of Israelis and Americans, as well as people from many countries around the world,” Kirby added on Monday.
Graham noted that the White House had previously been draped in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag.Xinhua/Shutterstock
As Graham points out, the White House, under the Biden administration, has previously been draped in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag on several occasions.
Twice last year, after Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, and again in June, during pride month.
During this year’s pride month celebration, the White House decorated the south side of the executive mansion with a rainbow-colored flag between two American flags.
The Brandenberg Gate in Berlin was lit in the colors of the Israeli flag after Saturday’s attack. @Jeff_Jacoby / X The White House announced that it will be lit up in white and blue, like the Empire State Building, on Monday night. @EmpireStateBldg / X Graham also called on the world to “condemn Iran” for the attack. @VladDavidzon / X
Graham also called on “the world” to “condemn Iran,” after the Wall Street Journal reported that officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and signed off on the attack.
“To the Biden administration, your appeasement policy on Iran is not working,” the South Carolina Republican said.
“To the Squad, shut up. You strengthen the enemy, you humiliate. You’re siding with terrorists over democracy, called Israel,” Graham added, slamming the far-left group of Democratic lawmakers. “You have lost your perspective here. I’m sure most Democrats disagree with the Squad.”
“The bottom line is that Biden and Obama appeased the Iranian people to the point they are now. If you pull the plug on Ukraine and let Putin get away with this, he won’t stop. We will be in a war between NATO and Russia,” he said.
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