Major General (Res.) Noam Tivon, former commander of the IOS Division and the northern brother-in-law, spoke this morning (Monday) with Anat Davidov and Udi Segal on 103fm. He referred to the difficult security situation in the various arenas and sharply criticized the government's performance on the issue
. His opinion on the development of the northern arena: "I think that in the north we need to do two things - the first thing on the civil level, we need to establish a body similar to the Takuma administration that will start taking care of the residents of the north.
They have been out of their homes for six months, businesses have been destroyed, farms, entire settlements have been damaged.
We now need a director headed by a person who is a public servant, not a politician, because at the moment they have no answers from anyone and the personal cost is very high.
Including a manager who will decide that third-line settlements can be admitted.
At the moment, no one is taking care of them."
"We have a government that is not functioning," Zam was furious. "The only consideration that drives it is 64 mandates so that Bibi can stay in power - this is the neglect of the people there.
I would start with that, let's talk about what to do with our people.
These people need answers.
All these things are ministerial irresponsibility of the first order, and I would start with that before talking about what is being done in Lebanon."
"We have a government that is not functioning."
Tivon/Uri Sela
Immediately afterwards, Tivon referred to the southern campaign against Hamas and the Rafah issue.
"The problem in Rafah is not the Hamas battalions. These are not first-rate battalions, but the Philadelphia Axis. How do we get to a situation where the State of Israel, which is its right, has effective control and how do we cut off the supply pipes of the Hamas organization from Sinai, that is the important issue. We are no longer in In a situation of war in the Strip, we are in a situation of ongoing security. That's why all the high words about destroying the four Hamas battalions in order to achieve complete victory is a fraud."
"There is a strategic mistake here in the conduct of the campaign - we don't have a clear strategy," claimed Tivon, who fought together with the security forces in Nahal Oz where his son lives, eliminated the terrorists around his house and rescued him and his granddaughters.
"From a situation where we were attacked, our people were slaughtered and murdered, the whole western world was in our favor, we reached a situation where we are assigned, that we automatically have an arms embargo. The pictures that the world sees are not the pictures from Bari, unfortunately, or from Kfar Gaza or from the Nuva party, but the pictures of the hungry children in Gaza, of The refugees. In managing a campaign, you have to take into account the military effort as well as the strategic effort - how do we leverage the achievements of the army for a strategic achievement."
According to him, "We want to return the abductees, prevent Hamas from controlling the Strip and return our settlements to security and prosperity in the Western Negev. As soon as the military operations serve nothing but to kill another Hamasnik, all the achievements of the army go down the drain, and this is the situation, unfortunately."
On the conscription law: "The government, instead of strengthening the state, engages in survival politics"
Later, the pair of presenters asked for Tivon's reference to the outline of the conscription law as published by the government, which includes raising the exemption age to 35.
"The essence is that the IDF needs more fighters, we started in the north, if we had three more divisions at the beginning of the war we could have managed both in the north and the south.
We currently do not have this capability.
In the north, it will probably be necessary to go to war there at some point, so there is a real need here.
We understand that the army is small for the security needs of the country."
"Instead of understanding the magnitude of the hour, that the ultra-Orthodox today are no longer a minority and they have to get under the stretcher, instead we continue with the same lie that has accompanied us for so many years, that not even one ultra-Orthodox recruits into the army.
It is simply outrageous in an unusual way," he attacked and added: "80 percent of the citizens of the State of Israel without any political affiliation think that now is the time, the army, the minister of defense, and instead of now to really move forward and find solutions, because it is possible, there is no problem to create solutions, but the government instead of contributing and strengthen the state so that it can face the challenges, is now engaged in survival politics that will not recruit even one ultra-Orthodox to the army.
This thing needs to be stopped immediately."
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