Lindsey Graham: Senator from Tel Aviv
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | There are certain things that ought to be shocking in our politics, but because they become so commonplace over such a long period of time, we become accustomed to them to the point that they become normalized. |
| 0:27.2 | And I think if we take a step back and really look at how bizarre it is, we'll rediscover the fact that it is extraordinary, that it's incredibly aberrational. |
| 0:36.6 | Such is the case, in my view, maybe the leading |
| 0:40.0 | issue is the way in which so many American politicians are voted into office at a national |
| 0:46.7 | level by American citizens to work on their interest and the interest of the country. |
| 0:52.4 | And instead, once they get into office, they very |
| 0:55.1 | bracently and overtly, they don't even hide it, instead make their priority the interest of this |
| 1:02.1 | one foreign country, Israel. Now, it's not uncommon that members of Congress, especially in a |
| 1:09.8 | kind of diverse country like the United States, |
| 1:12.1 | if they have some ethnic identity, they focus somewhat on or find themselves more attached to |
| 1:19.4 | that identity. If someone's of Albanian descent, they may care more about Albania, |
| 1:24.6 | maybe go there a little bit more often, think about it a little more. |
| 1:28.1 | Someone is Italian or Irish, same thing. Lots of different examples. Maybe the only thing that even |
| 1:33.5 | is in the same universe when it comes to Israel is the fact that we have a lot of people in very |
| 1:37.9 | influential positions whose families came from Cuba and Venezuela. There are large immigrant |
| 1:43.9 | communities, especially in South Florida, but throughout Florida as well. |
| 1:47.9 | And they basically are inculcated with the idea, even if they're born in the United States, |
| 1:52.3 | like say Marco Rubio is, members of Congress are. |
| 1:55.1 | They grew up in these immigrant communities, and the ethos of that immigrant community is |
| 1:58.7 | it's the job of the United States to fix our countries. |
| 2:02.3 | The United States military should be sent to Venezuela and Cuba and change the governments that we dislike |
| 2:07.0 | so we can go back or just feel better about our country. |
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