As President Donald Trump called on Israel to stand down from retaliating over an Iranian violation of a tenuous U.S.-brokered ceasefire, retired Israel Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi told Newsmax Tuesday that the temporary peace can hold if Tehran stops producing weapons and arming proxies against the Jewish state.

Appearing on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America,” Avivi said that Israel expects to see “no more shooting” and “no more going back to nuclear plants or producing ballistic missiles or equipping militias.”

“The big issue is how do we enforce this reality in the future?” he said. “And this is something we’ll have to work out together with the U.S. president.”

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