President Joe Biden attempted to tie the terrorist attacks in Israel to the Russia-Ukraine War during his pitch from the Oval Office to send aid to both countries as the White House was bathed in red light.
Two minutes into his remarks, Biden pivoted from speaking about Hamas’s terrorist attacks that murdered more than 1,300 in Israel several weeks ago to “the brutality inflicted on the people of Ukraine.”
“You know, the assault on Israel echoes nearly 20 months of war, tragedy, and brutality inflicted on the people of Ukraine, people that were very badly hurt since Putin launched his all-out invasion,” he said.
“We have not forgotten the mass graves, the bodies found bearing signs of torture, rape used as a weapon by the Russians, and thousands and thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken into Russia, stolen from their parents,” he added.
He then likened Hamas to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy, completely annihilate it. Hamas to sustain a purpose for existing is a destruction of the State of Israel and the murder of Jewish people,” he said, going on to add:
Meanwhile, Putin denies Ukraine