Biden closed with a quote from the Irish poet Seamus Heaney: “History says, Don’t hope / On this side of the grave, / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme.”

The poem is about Ireland, but Biden said he’d decided the lines apply to Israel.

I'm pretty sure the IRA was bombing colonialists but ok go off