One day after he visited Israel, which is in the midst of grieving and responding to the horrific Oct. 7 attack by militant group Hamas, President Biden delivered a rare Oval Office address in which he said 'American leadership' was necessary to keep freedom alive in both the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers an address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington
On Thursday evening, he tied Israel’s fight against Hamas to Ukraine’s effort to expel invading Russian forces from its sovereign lands, describing the struggles as inherently related.
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