The White House will be illuminated in white and blue Monday night, hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Biden to light up the executive mansion with the colors of the Israeli flag.
Graham noted that numerous world landmarks 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 has left over 900 Israelis dead and over 2,150 wounded.
“I’m urging the Biden administration to cloak the White House tonight in 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.
New York’s Empire State Building, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the U.K. Parliament building in London and Paris’ Eiffel Tower are among the well-known structures that have been lit up in the colors of the Israeli flag since Saturday’s attack, the biggest on Israel in 50 years.
Minutes before nightfall on Monday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby announced that the White House would do so as well.
Biden, 80, has condemned Hamas’ attack and says the US government stands “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 taken the lives of Israeli and American citizens, as well as citizens from many countries around the world,” Kirby added on Monday.
As Graham referenced, 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 into law, 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 in between two American flags.
Graham also called on “the world” to “condemn Iran,” after the Wall Street Journal reported that officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps planned and signed off on the attack.
“To the Biden administration, your appeasement policies toward Iran is not working,” the South Carolina Republican said.
“To the Squad, shut the hell up. You’re emboldening the enemy, you are a disgrace. You are siding with terrorists over democracy, called Israel,” Graham added, lashing out the far-left group of Democratic lawmakers. “You have lost your perspective here. I am confident most Democrats do not agree with the Squad.”
“Bottom line is, Biden and Obama appeased the Iranians to the point where we are today. If you pull the plug on Ukraine and let Putin get away with this, he will not stop. We will be in a war between NATO and Russia,” he said.