{"id":971,"date":"2025-10-12T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:49:22","slug":"graham-says-long-way-to-go-before-lasting-peace-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/graham-says-long-way-to-go-before-lasting-peace-in-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham says 'long way to go' before lasting peace in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday there is a \u201clong way to go\u201d before achieving lasting peace in the Middle East, even as he expressed optimism about the hostage peace deal announced by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will never be peace in the Mid East until you deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis because they’re proxies of Iran,\u201d Graham said in an interview on NBC News\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I’m excited about tomorrow. This will be a great day to get the hostages away from their bondage and their torture. And hopefully that will build to a lasting peace, but we have a long way to go. I still don’t trust Hamas any further than I can throw them,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, President Trump\u00a0announced Israel and Hamas<\/a>\u00a0had reached an agreement to release the remaining Israeli hostages and stop the fighting in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The president is expected to travel to Israel on Sunday afternoon to address its legislature on Monday morning local time, before traveling to Egypt for a peace ceremony to welcome the hostages.<\/p>\n

Graham, who is staunchly pro-Israel, said he hopes this peace deal brings lasting peace to the region, noting that the moment is a \u201cperfect storm for peace\u201d that is \u201cbrewing in the Mid East.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut whether or not Hamas will disarm, whether or not there will be control of Gaza after the ceasefire that we can all live with, is a very big question,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are three pieces of the puzzle: Iran, which is the weakest they’ve been since 1979; the Arabs, which are closer to Trump than anytime I can remember in the Mid East, closest to a president; and Israel, who trusts Trump a lot. So all these things fall together,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday there is a \u201clong way to go\u201d before achieving lasting peace ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}