Sputnik: US Determined to Keep Israel Top Mideast Power - Defense Secretary
The United States remains totally committed to Israel’s defense and to providing it with the most advanced military systems in the Middle East, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said in a press conference in Tel Aviv.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Carter was visiting Israel on the first stage of a three nation trip around the region that will also bring him to Saudi Arabia and Jordan, two other long-time US allies.
“We will maintain our ironclad commitment to Israel's qualitative military edge — to — so that Israel can defend itself, by itself, from any threat,” Carter told the press conference on Monday, according to a transcript released on Monday by the US Department of Defense.
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