US Presidency
2013

America will do what we must to prevent a nuclear armed Iran. For young Israelis, I know that these issues of security are rooted in an experience that is even more fundamental than the pressing threat of the day. You live in a neighborhood where many of your neighbors have rejected the right of your nation to exist. Your grandparents had to risk their lives and all that they had to make a place for themselves in this world. Your parents lived through war after war to ensure the survival of the Jewish state. Your children grow up knowing that people they've never met may hate them because of who they are, in a region that is full of turmoil and changing underneath your feet. So that's what I think about when Israel is faced with these challenges â€“ - that sense of an Israel that is surrounded by many in this region who still reject it, and many in the world who refuse to accept it.