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by Algemeiner Staff
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Photo: Adina Valman / Knesset Spokesperson’s Office / Handout via Reuters.
For the first time since taking office last month, new Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke on Thursday with his American counterpart, Mark Esper.
Later, in a Twitter thread, Gantz — a former IDF chief of staff – said he had told Esper, “Israel doesn’t have a strategic partner in the world like the U.S. and our security cooperation is particularly important during this challenging time.”
Gantz added, “We also discussed the strategic and steadfast defense relationship between the two nations, the countries’ ironclad military-to-military cooperation, the U.S. commitment to Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge (QME), and the necessity to halt the Iranian threat.”
“We agreed to further our joint efforts, working in tandem in light of both nations’ mutual interests in the Middle East,” he concluded.
“Israel doesn’t have a strategic partner in the world like the U.S. and our security cooperation is particularly important during this challenging time.” That is what I said today to U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper (@EsperDoD) during our first formal conversation.
— בני גנץ – Benny Gantz (@gantzbe) June 11, 2020
