Joint Press Conference with Secretary Panetta and Minister Barak in the Pentagon Briefing Room, November 29, 2012

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—November 29, 2012.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON E. PANETTA:  Good afternoon.  It’s a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity again to welcome my dear friend, Minister Ehud Barak, to the Pentagon.  I’d like to begin by taking a moment to pay tribute to Ehud.  As you know, he’s made an announcement that he intends to retire from political life in Israel.  

Our friendship stretches back a number of decades, to, I think,…