The United States is not pursuing a mutual defense treaty with Israel, as some Israeli press reports have suggested, according to State Department spokesman James Rubin. He said the United States is focusing on “expanding the existing type of cooperation and the existing relationship, and not on any mutual defense treaty.”
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