Israeli Chief of Staff holds talks in Washington include Syria

Israeli Chief of Staff holds talks in Washington include Syria

Being chief of the Israeli General Staff Gen. Benjamin Jants Tuesday held talks with officials in the Pentagon about the current security challenges and regional security situation in the Middle East and military cooperation between the United States and Israel.

The talks come days after a visit by the head of military intelligence Israel Aviv Kokhaby To Pentagon last Thursday, where he met with leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Sources at the Pentagon that the main topics on the agenda of the American-Israeli talks during Jants visit is about Syria in particular and Hezbollah continue to get arms from Iran.

The sources pointed out that the Israeli side has new evidence that the weapon was started up to Hezbollah through the channels and methods mediated by a third party, but refused to disclose the sources of this third way.

The sources pointed out that the Pentagon is watching the tension between Israel and Hezbollah, especially after the military air raid carried out by the Israeli Air Force last week, which Pentagon officials pointed out that it targeted the convoy was carrying a weapon developed to Hezbollah.

And about why these talks and whether pave the way for military move bilateral U.S. - Israeli, has not benefited sources any clarifications in this regard, they noted that the Pentagon is an active partner and essential to building system power missile defense Israeli especially batteries "Iron Dome" owned by Israeli forces now .

The U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey has visited Israel in the past few months and were briefed on the work of systems missile defense, which refers to the follow-up Pentagon and Israel's threats of Iran and the information that indicates the arrival of a weapon developed to Hezbollah, and does not want one at the Pentagon comment the extent to which can be up to this tension between Israel and Hezbollah.

The visit comes Gen. Jants for 5 days to the United States, which began the first Sunday, at a time when implicitly Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Munich on the sidelines of the Conference on Security, that Israel carried out an air raid on military installations in Syria on Wednesday.

Israel continually refuses to rule out resorting to military action to prevent Iran from developing the ability to build a nuclear weapon, although Tehran denies any such ambition.