Gen. (Res.) Yaakov AmidrorThe former head of the National Security Council, spoke this morning (Wednesday) with Anat Davidov and Gideon Oko on 103FM and commented on the tense security situation. According to him, it is not known whether the tension will escalate: However, many parties have a huge interest in maintaining calm. “
“One decision can change the whole situation, so it can end one way or another. Every year it comes back around Ramadan – one has to ask what the status quo is, whether it is right to deviate from it and what is the price of each decision. This year it looks worse because it “The house and the extremists who are trying to drag the State of Israel into an event. If it had not been for Passover, everything would have looked different,” he explained.
Amidror added that he suggested calming down and letting security officials assess the situation: “It should be determined on which day the visit of the Jews will take place again in order to end Ramadan as usual every year without a change in the status quo.”
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“However, I do not see any of the Arab countries spoiling the relations they began to build with Israel because of these events. The only place to go into a diplomatic containment battle is quietly with the Jordanians to make it clear to them that we too have red lines when it comes to Jerusalem,” he added.
Ahead of the flag parade in Jerusalem, he claimed: “It seems true that it is crazy that in Jerusalem it is impossible to hold a flag parade, but you have to learn that it is a very tense city, so there are things you do not do. “From the extremists on this side and not on the other side – and if we have to use force, then we use force, because the State of Israel is the sovereign.”
Assisted in the editing of the article: David Zevuluni, 103FM