President JoeBiden compared Irish Catholics living under British rule to the plight of the Palestinians while visiting a hospital in East Jerusalem.
“My background and the background of my family is Irish American, and we have a long history of not fundamentally unlike the Palestinian people with Great Britain and their attitude to Irish Catholics over the years, for 400 years,” Biden said.The president drew the analogy in remarks at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem on Friday before reading from Seamus Heaney’s poem, The Cure of Troy.
“‘Hope and history rhyme,’” the president said. “It is my prayer that we’re reaching one of those moments where hope and history rhyme.”
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