At 9/11 memorial, US envoy says both countries ‘will always stand together against terror’

The US ambassador to Israel David Friedman lauds the strong friendship between US and Israel during the official memorial service for the victims of the 9/11 terrorists attacks.

“Israel and the United States will always stand together and fight for the total defeat of radical Islamic terrorism,” Friedman says at the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza in the Arazim Valley outside Jerusalem.

“In the 16 years following the disaster in the US, Israel and its allies have strengthened and flourished, while terrorist organizations such as ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Hamas continue to weaken,” he says.

Israel, he says, “mourned for America,” in the wake of the attacks, adding that the Jewish state was the only country other than the US to erect a memorial with all of the victims’ names.

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