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Source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=236908
Israel: Cooperation with U.S. Better than Ever
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Israeli-U.S. cooperation and coordination has improved markedly over the last few months and is now better than it has been since the beginning of the Obama administration, senior Israeli government officials said Tuesday, following reports of critical remarks made by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "The way we are working on the issue of unilateral Palestinian statehood at the UN, and the way we are dealing with other contentious issues, is better than ever," one official said, saying the level of cooperation improved significantly since Netanyahu's visit to Washington in May. The official noted that under Gates' watch, there has been an unprecedented level of security cooperation between Israel and the U.S.