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Refuting Thomas Friedman column, State Department says no US-Israel ‘formal reassessment’

In response to a question at the U.S. State Department press briefing on Wednesday, spokesman Matthew Miller rejected the premise of Thomas L. Friedman’s July 11 New York Times column, “The U.S. Reassessment of Netanyahu’s Government Has Begun.”

“No, there’s been no talk of any kind of formal reassessment,” Miller said. “The United States and Israel share a special bond, and our enduring commitment to Israel’s security is ironclad.”

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