The White House will be illuminated in white and blue on Monday night, hours after Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Biden to illuminate the executive mansion in the colors of the Israeli flag.
Graham noted that numerous landmarks around the world 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 left more than 900 Israelis dead and more than 2,150 wounded.
“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.
The Empire State Building in New York, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the UK Parliament building in London and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are among the well-known structures that have been illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag since the attack on Saturday, the biggest against Israel. in 50 years.
“I urge the Biden administration to drape the White House tonight with the Israeli flag. You did it for Pride Month,” Graham said Monday. Getty Images Biden has condemned Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel. AP
Minutes before dusk on Monday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced that the White House would do so as well.
Biden, 80, has condemned the Hamas attack and says the US government is “ready to offer all appropriate means of support to the Government and people of Israel.”
“The United States unequivocally condemns these horrific terrorist attacks in Israel, which have claimed the lives of Israeli and American citizens, as well as citizens of many countries around the world,” Kirby added on Monday.
Graham noted that the White House had previously been decked out in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag. Xinhua/Shutterstock
As Graham mentioned, the White House, under the Biden administration, has previously been draped in the rainbow colors of the gay pride flag on multiple occasions.
Twice last year, after Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act, and again in June, during Pride Month.
During this year’s Pride Month celebrations, the White House decorated the south side of the Executive Mansion with a rainbow-colored flag sandwiched between two American flags.
The Brandenberg Gate in Berlin was illuminated in the colors of the Israeli flag after Saturday’s attack. @Jeff_Jacoby / X The White House announced it would be lit 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 officers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and approved the attack.
“For the Biden administration, their appeasement policies toward Iran are not working,” the South Carolina Republican said.
“To the Squad, shut your mouth. You are emboldening the enemy, you are a disgrace. “They are siding with terrorists over democracy, called Israel,” Graham added, attacking the group of far-left Democratic legislators. “You’ve lost perspective here. “I’m sure most Democrats don’t agree with the Team.”
“The bottom line is that Biden and Obama appeased the Iranians to the point we are at today. If you pull the plug on Ukraine and let Putin have his way, he won’t stop. We will be in a war between NATO and Russia,” he stated.
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