"Even a united Europe has an existential interest in good relations with the United States," he said.
Israel, on the other hand, has a permanent and perhaps existential interest in finding a way to get along with its neighbours.
This US move amounts to an open assault on multilateralism – something that, as history has taught us, Europeans have an existential interest in protecting and upholding.
But his purpose in the speech, watched by millions across the country, was to build a rhetorical, logical, political basis upon which to found his central contention: the two-state solution with Palestine is in Israel's own vital, existential interest:Peace is necessary.
Meanwhile, in Israel, the outgoing Prime Minister has spoken of the need to reach a two-state solution in the near term as an existential interest of the State of Israel, and the incoming Prime Minister is now signaling her interest in pursuing regional peace with the Arabs and supporting American diplomacy with Iran.
But given their deep existential interest in such a deal -- that they would try to figure out everything they could -- that they would have an opinion about it, and share that opinion about it, I don't find that controversial," said Kaine.
Indeed, it is the possibility of breaking out of a deterministic setting and moving toward an existential creativity that interests me here, and which becomes of vital importance in my examination of digital spectatorship.
It is such receding division within division within division, not just of the spoils but of the loyalties political, religious and familial, that Shawky, after Maalouf, uses to exemplify the existential breakdown of interests from the collective to the individual.
There is a vital existential national security interest.
