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Democratic Senators Call on Obama to Strengthen Security Understanding with Israel
(JTA) 16 Democratic senators led by Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ben Cardin, D-Md. - the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - sent a letter to President Obama on Monday calling for a new and strengthened "Memorandum of Understanding" on security assistance to Israel. The letter called on Obama to "provide the necessary and appropriate measures to deter Iran," such as ordinance and delivery systems, as well as to enhance Israel's qualitative military edge over countries in the region. "We also support providing missile defense funding, as necessary and appropriate, to accelerate the co-development of missile defense systems, and increased bilateral cooperation on cyber, intelligence, and research and development for tunnel detection and mapping technologies." The senators commended Obama's "commitment to an unprecedented level of military, intelligence and security cooperation with Israel to address new and complex security threats."