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Published Oct 18, 2023 at 8:55 PM IST

Biden Recalls The First Time He Was in Israel

US President Joe Biden says, "Folks, there's an Irish poet, named W. Yeats, he wrote a line. he said "Too long of suffering makes a stone of the heart." "Too long of suffering makes a stone of the heart." The thing that I found in this real quick meeting with all of you, is that none of your hearts have turned to stone yet. Every one of you talked about what you have to do. Every one of you talked about having to reach out, talked about whether or not they were a Jew or a Muslim you reach out. And, you know, I've often said, I remember the first time that I was in Israel with (former Israeli Prime Minister) Golda Meir and it was just before the Six-Day War. And she was telling me how terrible everything was, which it was. She kept flipping the maps up and down behind her and all of a sudden she looked at me and she said, "Would you like a photograph?" And I thought, that's unusual. And she just got up and walked outside her office. And we're standing there having a photograph taken like you and I are standing with the press. And she without looking at me, she turned. She said, "you look worried." I said, "I am." She said, "Don't worry. We Jews have a secret weapon in our fight. We have no place else to go." 

Published October 18th, 2023 at 20:55 IST

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