Graham Said There Is No Limit to What Israel Should Do to People Trying to Slaughter the Jews

1Graham said no amount of Palestinian deaths would make him question Israel

Verdict: True.

• The post: The X post from @jason_paladino (July 12, 2026) was a wave emoji and a Mediaite screenshot. The headline: "Lindsey Graham Says No Amount of Palestinian Deaths Would Make Him Question Israel: 'There Is No Limit'." Michael Luciano's piece ran Oct. 31, 2023, the night Graham sat with Abby Phillip on CNN NewsNight.

• The interview: Oct. 31, 2023, 10 p.m. ET. Phillip had just aired the Jabalia refugee-camp strike. She asked Graham if there was a civilian-casualty threshold that would make him, or the U.S. government, say hold off, and if there was a point at which he would start to question the tactics. Graham cut in:

“No. If somebody asked us after World War II, is there a limit what you would do to make sure that Japan and Germany don’t conquer the world, is there any limit what Israel should do to the people who are trying to slaughter the Jews? The answer is no. There is no limit.”

• Phillip posted the clip from @abbydphillip the same night: she asked if there was a limit to the civilian casualties the U.S. would accept in Gaza, and quoted Graham's World War II analogy and "The answer is no, there is no limit." CNN's own chiron on the show read, "GRAHAM: NO, SHOULDN'T BE LIMIT TO CIVILIAN CASUALTIES."
• The paraphrase: Mediaite's "no amount of Palestinian deaths would make him question Israel" is the headline, not a verbatim sentence. Graham was answering a question about a civilian-casualty threshold that would make him question the campaign. He said "no limit" on what Israel should do to "the people who are trying to slaughter the Jews." In the same breath he said they should "be smart," "try to limit civilian casualties the best we can," and send humanitarian aid "in areas to protect the innocent." He blamed Hamas for the deaths: "Hamas is creating these casualties, not Israel."

In plain language:

Yes. On CNN he refused any civilian-casualty number that would make him tell Israel to hold off, and he said “There is no limit.”