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In a show of solidarity, Secretary of State Blinken arrived in Israel following the Hamas terrorist attacks. In a very personal address, he spoke of his own ancestry.

“I come before you not only as the United States secretary of state but also as a Jew,” Blinken told an audience at Israel’s Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.

“My grandfather Maurice Blinken fled pogroms in Russia. My stepfather Samuel Pisar survived concentration camps,” he said. “I understand on a personal level the harrowing echoes that Hamas’s massacres carry for Israeli Jews and, indeed, for Jews everywhere.”

 Israeli Prime Minister stood beside Blinken, and thanked him and the American public for its “incredible support for Israel in our war against the barbarians of Hamas.”