Day 478 Swords of Iron – “Psychological Warfare”

Chaim starts out by saying it’s been an emotional roller coaster in Israel this week, watching the hostages freed from Hamas but also being subjected to severe psychological warfare. Chaim asks his viewers to pray for Israelis who are going through all kinds of trauma.

This includes the residents of northern Israel who have been exiled from their homes for almost 16 months now. Some of them are just starting to return, but Hezbollah also wants to return to their bases, tunnels, bunkers and fighting positions in southern Lebanon as if nothing happened. Civilian residents of these southern Lebanese villages also want to return and they’re tired of the war too. But Hezbollah isn’t quite ready to retreat north of the Litani River yet.

At the same time, Hamas is playing games with these hostage releases, not releasing the people who everyone was expecting them to release, allowing Israelis to get their hopes up and then dashing them again and again. It’s tough, but Chaim says we know who will win in the end.

Hamas is pretending it won this war, but that it utterly absurd and the only people who will believe that are people who want to believe it and are prepared ot gaslight themselves.

In the meantime, US President Donald Trump is saying that large numbers of Gaza residents should be sent to Jordan or Egypt at least until the mess in Gaza can be cleaned up and some rebuilding can be done.

Chaim says that he doubts that these countries are eager to take in Palestinian refugees right now, but be that as it may, the struggle for righteousness continues. In this context, he concludes by quoting Psalms 25:14-15; The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him,

And He will show them His covenant. My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.