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Biden invokes Irish Catholic background to identify with Palestinians

By Katherine Doyle
Published July 15, 2022 3:52pm ET
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Biden invokes Irish Catholic background to identify with Palestinians
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Joe Biden 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 […]

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — President Joe Biden compared Irish Catholics living under British rule to the plight of the Palestinians while visiting a hospital in East Jerusalem.

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