U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act increases value of emergency U.S. weaponry kept in Israel to $1.8 billion • Legislation promotes closer U.S.-Israeli ties in fields of energy, water, homeland security, alternative fuel technology, and cybersecurity.
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President Barack Obama has signed a bill deepening U.S.-Israel cooperation and says the legislation reinforces "critical defense and security programs."
Obama said the legislation also lays the groundwork for increased trade and cooperation between the U.S. and Israel. Still, the new legislation excludes Israel from the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
The U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act increases the value of emergency U.S. weaponry kept in Israel by $200 million, to a total of $1.8 billion, and promotes closer U.S.-Israeli ties in the fields of energy, water, homeland security, alternative fuel technology, and cybersecurity. It also offers a verbal guarantee of Israel maintaining a qualitative military edge over its neighbors.
Obama said his administration will interpret certain sections in a manner that does not interfere with his constitutional authority to conduct diplomacy. That includes a section requiring the administration to provide Congress certain diplomatic communications.
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