(Israel Hayom) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet on Sunday: "A defense treaty with the U.S. will not hurt our freedom to act." Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz told Ynet TV earlier this month that such a pact should apply to "defined issues - nuclear threats and the matter of long-range missiles aimed by Iran at Israel." Outside of NATO and the Rio Treaty with Latin American countries, the U.S. has separate mutual defense treaties with Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
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