Reality check: Chuck Hagel is now Secretary of Defense and fellow Israel-hater Barack Obama is still President.

WASHINGTON  — A group of bipartisan senators are promoting legislation promising Israel US support if the former chooses to attack Iran on its own.

The legislation is sponsored by Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez. The two hope to see the resolution accepted before Obama’s spring visit to Israel.

“No one wants another conflict anywhere in the world militarily, but we also don’t want a nuclear-capable Iran,” Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a member of the Senate’s Committee on Armed Services, said at a press conference.

His partner, Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reiterated the US’s desire for achieving progress with Iran through negotiation and not military action, but poignantly noted that “we will not talk for talking sake.”

“This is not a green light to Israel to do anything other than defend itself (and a promise that) we will be there,” Graham said.

At the heart of the bipartisan resolution stands the promise to support Israel in the case of an attack.

According to the resolution, if Israel is “compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States government should stand with Israel and provide diplomatic, military and economic support to the government of Israel in its defense of its territory, people and existence.”