Lind­sey Gra­ham slams Bernie Sanders call for total cut in US aid to Israel: ‘Irre­spon­si­ble state­ment’

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Sen. Lind­sey Gra­ham (R‑SC) slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I‑VT) over his calls to ful­ly cut U.S. mil­i­tary aid to Israel amid their war against Hamas.
Sanders appeared on NBC News’s Meet the Press just before Gra­ham and declared that “Israel should not be receiv­ing the nick­el in U.S. mil­i­tary aid,” accus­ing the Jew­ish State of vio­lat­ing inter­na­tion­al law in its war against Hamas ter­ror­ists. After the Ver­mont senator’s seg­ment, Gra­ham denounced Sanders’s com­ments.

“What Sen. Sanders said — ‘not anoth­er nick­el on mil­i­tary aid [from] the Unit­ed States’ — is the most dan­ger­ous, irre­spon­si­ble state­ment in the his­to­ry of the U.S. rela­tion­ship. This is not Viet­nam. Israel isn’t a fight for their lives. Hamas says they will do it again and ag …