After assuming the position of minister in the Ministry of Defense, Minister Bezalel Smotrich responded today (Friday) to outgoing Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi's retirement speech published this morning in Israel Hayom: "If Kochavi had talked to me instead of attacking, he would have understood that there would be no harm to the IDF" To".
The Minister of Finance wrote about Kochavi's speech: "If Kochavi wanted to understand and not just attack with populism in preparation for his entry into the political field, he would talk to me and understand that the goal is not to damage the IDF's chain of command, but to remove the Civil Administration from the IDF and naturalize it. The IDF will deal with security and a civilian system will manage civilian life.
Good for the citizens and good for the IDF."
If Kochavi wanted to understand and not just attack with populism in preparation for his entry into the political field, he would talk to me and understand that the goal is not to harm the IDF's chain of command, but to remove the Civil Administration from the IDF and naturalize it.
The IDF will deal with security and a civilian system will manage civilian life. Good for the citizens and good for the IDF.
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— Bezalel Smotrich (@bezalelsm) January 13, 2023
In this morning's interview with Israel Hayom, Kochavi said that: "An external appointment to the chain of command is like injecting poison into the IDF", a statement that is a kind of allusion to the intentions of Minister Smotrich, who as mentioned did not like the things said in the interview.
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