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Lindsey Graham tributes from Israel and Ukraine point to complicated, often bloody legacy

Republican senator, who died Saturday, had a global reach few could rival and was vital in shaping Trump’s worldview It was revealing tha…

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Republican senator, who died Saturday, had a global reach few could rival and was vital in shaping Trump’s worldview It was revealing that one of the first tributes to Lindsey Graham, a US senator who died on Saturday aged 71, came from Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, a far-right provocateur who recently caused widespread anger by sharing footage of himself taunting bound activists who had been trying to sail to Gaza with aid. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was not far behind, calling Graham a “great friend of Israel and a cherished friend of mine”, and he was quickly followed by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who described him as “a true defender of freedom and the values that make our world safer”. Continue reading...

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