President Biden unexpectedly crossed himself Wednesday during a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in Midtown.
“We’ve been friends for, I’ve checked it, over 40 years,” Netanyahu said, prompting Biden to make the sign of the cross in a possible joke about his own age. The sign of the cross dates to early Christianity and is often used as a self-blessing during prayer. During Trump’s final year in office, the governments of Muslim-majority Bahrain, Kosovo, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates established diplomatic relations with Israel as a result of US diplomacy.
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