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Thu 13 Jul 2023 2:29 pm - Jerusalem Time

Washington denies reconsidering its ties with Israeli government

Washington –  President Joe Biden's administration denied on Thursday that they are reconsidering the United States' relationship with Israel due to the actions of the far-right government.


U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller responded to The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's op-ed claiming that it was "inevitable" that such ties would be re-evaluated by stating that "there was no talk of any kind of official re-evaluation. The United States and Israel share special bonds, and our enduring commitment to Israel's security is unwavering."


While noting their "shared democratic values and common interests," Miller added that "we have our differences and our concerns, and we've talked about how we raise those differences and concerns with them privately, and we've seen the president and others in this administration talk about these differences publicly."


Miller also maintained the Biden administration's commitment to the two-state solution, even though more and more commentators, including Friedman, has thrown its viability into question.


Thomas Friedman's article entitled "The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahu's Government has Begun"  argued that "Biden team sees the far-right Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, engaged in unprecedented radical behavior — under the cloak of judicial “reform” — that is undermining our shared interests with Israel, our shared values and the vitally important shared fiction about the status of the West Bank that has kept peace hopes there just barely alive."





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