This district is made up of a diverse population of Jewish, Armenian, Iranian, Korean, Filipino, and Latino residents. People who came here because they believed in what America represents. I still believe in it. But belief has to be backed by action.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out the deadliest attack on Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. The years that followed tested America's alliances like nothing in a generation. The Twelve-Day War with Iran in June 2025. The Iranian people's uprising that December, met with a massacre that killed an estimated 30,000 civilians in 48 hours. And the joint US-Israeli operation on February 28, 2026, that eliminated Ayatollah Khamenei after 37 years of funding terrorism, pursuing nuclear weapons, and brutalizing his own people. That operation was the US-Israel alliance working exactly as it should. Shared intelligence. Coordinated action. A common understanding that the world's most dangerous actors cannot be managed through hope alone.

Iran's future remains uncertain. But the alliance that made that moment possible must be preserved and strengthened, not treated as a political bargaining chip.

And Iran is not the only place where the world failed to act in time. In September 2023, Azerbaijan drove more than 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, the homeland known as Artsakh, after a nine-month starvation blockade. International investigators documented ethnic cleansing, extrajudicial killings, and the systematic destruction of Armenian cultural sites. The former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court warned of genocide. The world issued statements. And 100,000 people lost everything.

This district understands that pain. Los Angeles County is home to the largest Armenian population outside Armenia. The Armenian Genocide of 1915, which killed 1.5 million people, was not formally recognized by Congress until 2019. Recognition without action is just a monument to failure.

Here is my position.

The US-Israel alliance is a strategic cornerstone. It must be defended regardless of which party holds power. Iran must never acquire nuclear weapons, and the Iranian people's right to determine their own future must be supported. Armenian security must be a priority of American foreign policy, with real accountability for the crimes in Artsakh. And our broader alliance network, NATO, our partnerships in the Pacific, our democratic allies worldwide, must be reinforced, because these relationships are force multipliers that no amount of unilateral action can replace.

I am running to be the first Israeli-born member of the United States Congress. I understand what it means to come from a country that depends on American partnership for its survival, and to represent a community where families carry the memory of genocide. America's alliances are not abstractions. They are commitments that determine whether people live in freedom or in fear.