US Chief of Staff said that Israel and the U.S. have a shared understanding of security concerns in the Middle East region

U.S. Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey said on Friday night that the Zionist entity and the U.S. have a shared understanding of security concerns in the Middle East region.

In a statement released at the end of his first visit to the Palestinian occupied territories, where he arrived on Thursday, Dempsey said his conversations with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Occupation Forces’ Chief of Staff Benny Gantz helped to “advance a shared understanding of the security situation in the region.”

The statement did not include any direct references to the U.S. or Israeli position on Iran.

Dempsey emphasized that his main contacts during the visit were with his Israeli counterpart, Gantz. They discussed, “relations between the two militaries, the U.S.’s new military strategy, and also budgets and the economy.”

Dempsey also referred to the postponement of the “Austere Challenge 12” joint military exercise between Israel and the U.S, scheduled for April. Demspey claimed that the delay will lead to “better training results.”

The chief of staff also visited the so-called Holocaust memorial near occupied Jerusalem on his visit. Dempsey said that he expressed U.S. commitment to preventing a future ‘Holocaust’ in the ‘Yad Vashem guest book’.

“We are committed to making sure that such human tragedy will never happen again,” he wrote.