US Sec. of State opened his statement with PM Netanyahu by saying: "I have come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew."

"My grandfather fled pogroms in Russia", he said, "my stepfather survived concentration camps - Auschwitz, Dachau, Majdanek. So Prime Minister, I understand on a personal level, the harrowing echoes that Hamas's massacre carries for Israeli Jews, and for Jews everywhere."