U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has played the role of shadow secretary of state this year.
Back in April, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, traveled to Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a week after a trip to Saudi Arabia yielded a sit-down with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Earlier this month, conducting shuttle diplomacy throughout the Middle East, Graham and a bipartisan Senate delegation bounced from Saudi Arabia to Israel to Egypt, meeting with the leaders of all three countries in an attempt to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling out of control and to save a potential normalization deal between Jerusalem and Riyadh.
“I went to Israel with 10 U.S. senators—five Republicans, five Democrats—saying the same thing: Israel has every right to destroy Hamas,”
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