...The struggle we are engaged in is a struggle of moderates versus extremists. Most of the challenges confronting Israel are challenges faced by the entire free world. The regional conflict is not the source of this dichotomy, nor the values for which Israel is fighting and which are shared by the free world. The fight against terror, against dangerous regimes that strive to acquire weapons of mass destruction, such as Iran, the fight against the spread of hatred and incitement - Israel stands on the frontlines of this fight. The international community must uphold the principles and values for which we are fighting, in the face of those who would exploit them in order to hurt all of us.

This is not a story of David and Goliath. Our values teach us not to use all of the power at our disposal. Civilians are hurt on both sides, but the chasmal difference between us is that the Israeli soldier would never deliberately harm an innocent civilian and would never receive an order to do so. Terrorism, in contrast, looks for the queue at a discotheque, or a pizzeria or a bus stop in order to harm as many civilians as possible. Talking in one breath about victims on both sides implies an equation, as it were, between them which does not exist. We expect world leaders to acknowledge the facts and to judge Israel as they would judge themselves...