Jerusalem: The United States and Israel are on “critical juition” on various security issues and have to develop a shared strategy, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Israeli Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
A 30-hour visit Sullivan to Israel and the Palestinian territories, the days before Christmas, amid new global concerns about Pandemic Coronavirus, suggested urgency in Washington’s desire to strengthen the old alliance.
Bennett Tweeted that the talk “productive” has included “growing threats caused by Iran and its negotiations with the world’s power”.
Washington has led efforts in Vienna to renew the 2015 agreement, where Iran agreed to curb its nuclear program in return for the removal of sanctions.
Israel bitterly opposed the agreement and then President Donald Trump attracted the United States from him.
“What happens in Vienna has great consequences for Middle Eastern stability and Israeli security for the coming years,” Bennett told Sullivan, according to his office.
Because Trump was pulled out, Iran had violated the pact with progress in a sensitive area such as uranium enrichment, denying military design.
Sullivan said President Joe Biden has sent it “because at critical points for our two countries in a series of major security issues, it is important that we sit together and develop a shared strategy, public prospects”.
Israel has long signed that, if thinking diplomacy has reached a dead end, it can use a pre-emptive strike to deny the sworn enemy means making a bomb.
The best-selling Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, asked the Head of the Air Force Major-General Tomer Bar Major if the corps are ready to attack Iran “tomorrow”, if needed.
He replied: “Yes.” Sullivan will travel to the West Bank who was occupied to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who sponsored US-sponsored state negotiations with Israel has stopped since 2014.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted that he had given Sullivan’s direction of “trust development measures” .
Take place with Abbas administration.
He did not mention the development of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, which has been reprimanded by the Biden government has damaged the prospect of peace.