Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., gave a fire-and-brimstone speech that he was so proud of that he shared it on X that promoted the everyday pro-Israel propaganda you see on Fox News, but took it to the next level when he warned Americans that God would turn on the U.S. if Washington ever stopped supporting Israel’s genocide and starvation campaign in Gaza.

Graham addressed the South Carolina Republican Party and repeated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comment that Israel could have wiped out Gaza within an afternoon if it wanted to. Graham agreed and said Israel has shown restraint in Gaza. 

“If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they could,” he said, implying that the U.S. would still support Tel Aviv even if it ended up killing every Palestinian in Gaza. Israel would not be able to commit a genocide if not for the backing of the Trump administration, which already gave Israel the green light to ramp up its genocide in March after Tel Aviv abandoned the ceasefire deal.

Graham, a warmongering freak, has been identified as President Donald Trump’s foreign policy guide and reportedly convinced him to strike Iran.

Graham also warned during his speech: If the U.S. pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on the U.S.

(Of course, Israel understood that it could not kill every single Palestinian that it could aim at because it would almost certainly result in a much wider war from neighbors that have largely sat out the genocide that has been conducted in a shrewd finesse of killing and starving, while denying every atrocity it commits.)

The White House did not announce any official change in policy, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been emboldened since the election of Trump, who was the candidate of choice by Miriam Adelson. Trump has dutifully surrounded himself with a Cabinet that has a religious devotion to Israel that transcends politics. 

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel who represents the evangelical leadership that Netanyahu relies on, has said there is no such thing as the West Bank. He said he has a connection to Israel that is “not so much political as it is visceral, personal.”

Huckabee said in February that Israel may be occupying the territory, but “it is an occupation of land that God gave them 3,500 years ago.”

Huckabee told a podcast, “In Genesis, when we’re told that God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel. I’m simple-minded enough to say, ‘There it is. What am I gonna do? I’m gonna believe that’.”

Philip Giraldi wrote:

The new Trump cabinet lineup includes Congressman Marco Rubio of Florida as Secretary of State, FOX news journalist Pete Hegspeth as Secretary of Defense, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York as Ambassador to the United Nations, former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas as Ambassador to Israel, Congressman Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser, Governor Kristi Noem as head of Homeland Security, and Steven C. Witkoff as special envoy to the Middle East.

Together they constitute a cohesive group that has delighted the president-elect Trump’s most hawkishly pro-Israel backers. All of those nominated share a passion for promoting Israeli interests as well as bemoaning Jewish concerns over issues like the constantly claimed “problem” of surging antisemitism. Matt Brooks, the longtime chief executive of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called the nominees “a true dream team for those who care about a strong, vibrant, unshakable U.S.-Israel relationship.”

Hegesth, the Fox News host and former member of the Army National Guard, is another Christian nationalist who is a pro-Israel hawk.

The evangelical Christian hosted a special on Fox News titled, “Battle in the Holy Land: Israel at War,” and posted on social media that he interviewed Netanyahu for the video…He wrote, “Israel needs our support!”

In 2020, shortly after Iran fired ballistic missiles at U.S. bases in Iraq, Hegseth called on Trump, who was president at the time, to bomb economic and cultural sites in Iran if they were housing weapons, The Week reported.

Al Jazeera noted that Hegseth said in an interview with the Jewish Press that Israel and Palestine should be considered through a biblical lens.

“This is not some mystical land that can be dismissed. It’s the story of God’s chosen people. That story didn’t end in 1776 or in 1948 or with the founding of the UN. All of these things still resonate and matter today,” he said.

Hegseth said he never met a Jewish person until college.

“When I did, the first thing I said to him was, ‘I read about you in the Bible!’” he said in the interview.