Today, as the flags fly at half-staff over the United States Capitol, Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the pews of Washington’s National Cathedral, paying his respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham. The irony is as suffocating as the incense: the man who spent decades lobbying for American blood to be spilled in Israel’s name has finally met his maker, and the very beneficiary of his zeal is present to honour him. Let no one mistake this funeral for a moment of national mourning. This is a gathering of the war party, a reunion of those who have spent a generation remaking the Middle East in the image of Israeli power, and Lindsey Graham was its most devoted, most zealous, most [...]
