PRESIDENT BIDEN: Rape, beheadings, bodies burned alive — Hamas committed atrocities that recall the worst ravages of ISIS, unleashing pure, unadulterated evil on the world. There’s no rationalizing it.

The State of Israel was born to be a safe place for the Jewish people. While it may not feel that way today… Israel must again be a safe place for the Jewish people.

I will ask Congress for an unprecedented amount of support for Israel, so we can keep Israel's security strong.

Biden's further remarks remembered the Holocaust.

“They will never be truly gone,” he said of those over 1,400 who perished in the massacre, which he linked with the Nazi Holocaust. “There’s something that is never fully lost, your love for them and their love for you."

Yet the present crisis will be nothing like the Holocaust, Biden said, because among others the Jewish people have the backing of their American allies.

“We will not stand by and do nothing again. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever,” he said.