(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn - "I am convinced the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations was predicated on mistaken information they had," Defense Ministry director general Amos Yaron said Wednesday on the eve of his retirement. "I believe that in the normal course of things, it should have been resolved in a half-day meeting between me and my Pentagon counterpart." Yaron said the Pentagon suspected Israel was conducting huge covert arms deals with China. "It took them a whole year and a thousand questions to understand that everything I said was true."
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