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‘Nuke Gaza’ rant US senators
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LAST weekend on a popular network television programme, longtime South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, appeared to suggest that Israel should use nuclear weapons to end its war in Gaza.
His remarks echoed those of Illinois Congressman Republican Tim Walberg, who suggested in March that the war in Gaza ”should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”
Graham asserted on the programme Meet the Press that the US decision to “end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons” was “the right decision.
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