PoliticsTributes from Israel and Ukraine highlight Lindsey Graham’s complicated, often bloody legacy

Republican US senator Lindsey Graham died on Saturday at the age of 71. One of the first tributes came from Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called Graham a “great friend of Israel” and a cherished personal friend. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described him as a true defender of freedom and the values that make the world safer. The responses from Israel and Ukraine underscore Graham’s far-reaching, complicated and often bloody political legacy.

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