Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.