Former IDF fighter pilot: I am very afraid of an Israeli civil war

By 103FM VIA MAARIV ONLINE

Published: JUNE 7, 2023 02:03

Updated: JUNE 7, 2023 07:51

Israelis attend a protest march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90) — Israelis attend a protest march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023.

(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/FLASH90)

In an interview, he said that "if a situation comes where there is a dictatorship, we will have no choice and we will have to fight the dictators."

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Nehemiah Dagan, former Israeli Air Force pilot and chief education officer of the IDF, spoke with Erel Segal on his program on 103FM on Tuesday and commented on recent social media posts in which he said that he was not intimidated by a civil war.

At the beginning of the interview, Dagan said: "I'm afraid that the way we're going now we'll end up in a country where secular or religious-liberal people won't want to live, and then there will be a group of Messianics left in the country who believe that God will solve everything in the end."

"I am very afraid of a civil war," he continued. "I have a terrible feeling that the situation right now is taking us to a place that will ultimately be a disaster. Why am I being so extreme? Because I know there is a way to stop this and it is not with the help of demonstrations. The only ones who can stop it are the government."

The current government is to blame

"Leadership does not ask who is to blame, they retreat and calm the people. When I speak like that, it's one thing, but when a minister in the Israeli government speaks like that?" Dagan added.

Israelis protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government's judicial reform on May 6, 2023 (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI/MAARIV)

Dagan then clarified: "I'm not calling for a civil war. I'm saying that if a situation comes where there is a dictatorship, we will have no choice and we will have to fight the dictators. They will fight with 'La Familia' and the thugs brought by Ben-Gvir."