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U.S. Ambassador: America, Israel of "Same Mind" on Stopping Iran in Syria
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon - The U.S. and Israel are "of the same mind" when it comes to opposition to any Iranian military presence in Syria, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said in an interview this week. Friedman said the U.S. was "extraordinarily receptive" to Israel's concerns about Iranian penetration into Syria. "The vacuum created by the defeat of ISIS cannot result in the presence of Iranian military bases," Friedman said, adding that the issue of how to get "the right result" was still a work in progress. Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic process, Friedman said that the Trump administration was "trying very hard not to repeat the mistakes of the past....We're trying to find ways to make sure that each side looks at the opportunity versus the present and concludes that the opportunity is better than the present."