“We have to have a dose of reality here,” the Republican senator told JNS. “Hamas is never going to give up their weapons and never going to give up power unless somebody makes them.”
(Dec. 8, 2025 / JNS) Amid growing rearmament by Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon respectively, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) supports Israel taking an active approach in disarming the terrorist groups.
In a recent interview, the pro-Israel senator told JNS that he doesn’t see a need for the United States to get involved with Hamas, but he’d encourage U.S. President Donald Trump to “consider joint operations with Israel if we can’t do diplomacy to disarm Hezbollah like we did with Iran.”
American kinetic action in Lebanon is very unlikely though.