(Day 563) Swords of Iron – “Drive Terror Out”
Chaim starts by saying he remembers the day he got the call to come to his IDF reserve unit because the war was starting and he was needed. He talks about others he knows who did the same, even though many of them were very busy and had a lot going on, they all dropped what they were doing and ran to join their units. They all thought it would be a short war like so many others before it, but this war has lasted over a year and a half and there’s no end in sight.
(Day 562) Swords of Iron – “Fell in the line of duty”
Chaim starts by saying it’s always tragic when the IDF suffers casualties, and he honors Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35, of Rahat, who was killed in action over the weekend. Several other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which occurred in an area that was believed to have been cleared of hostile actors, but Hamas had a tunnel that had not been demolished yet and some Hamas guys popped up out of that tunnel and fired an RPG at an IDF vehicle and then later as a rescue vehicle was headed towards the scene Hamas detonated an IED and inflicted more casualties.
(Day 561) Swords of Iron – “Name a Hero of yours”
Chaim starts the video by asking his viewers to leave a comment talking about who their heroes are. He then tells the story of one of his personal heroes, Fredreich Bonhoofer, who was a pastor in Germany who publicly stood against the Nazi regime and was also involved in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler in July 1944. His great legacy is that although he was a pacifist, he said that to not take action in the face of evil, and to not speak out in the face of evil, was to support evil and to become evil.
(Day 560) Swords of Iron – “Welcoming the new U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee!”
Chaim starts by saying it’s been another week of war in Gaza but he has a pass to go home for the weekend and one of the things he got to do on his time off from the front was meet and shake hands with incoming US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. His first act as ambassador was to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem and place a note there that President Trump wrote.
(Day 559) Swords of Iron – “USA Delays Israel’s Strike on Iran”
Chaim starts by saying it’s Passover but nonetheless Israel is planning to attack Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Plans have been fairly far advanced and there was even a scheduled strike meant to happen on April 7th, and then again a short time later. But both attacks were waved off by President Trump, who wanted to continue discussions a little longer to see if a negotiated settlement could still work.
(Day 558) Swords of Iron – “Pakistan Nukes”
Chaim starts by admitting that the IDF, after over 550 days of war, is getting a little tired and worn out, so the Passover holiday offers some welcome respite. He shows his viewers thousands of Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall for the prayers. Chaim says that the world is becoming very dark and dangerous and the only way forward is for people of faith in the God of the Bible to stand together and pray together.
(Day 557) Swords of Iron – “Joseph in the Bible was like a hostage in a tunnel”
Chaim starts by talking about the actions of the IDF in Gaza over the last few days, demolishing terror tunnels and thwarting attacks on the troops and Israeli civilians. Chaim notes that many of the tunnels and hidden weapons are kept in civilian areas, including schools and hospitals.
(Day 556) Swords of Iron – “Will Diplomacy Fail?”
Chaim starts by talking about the Egyptian proposal for a new cease-fire deal which would include releasing hundreds of convicted murderers and also IDF withdrawals from areas that they would then probably have to just go back in and re-take. Chaim says this war has already gone on far too long and he wonders how much more time it take to finish the job, and if the political echelon and the diplomats will allow the soldiers to do it properly.
(Day 555) Swords of Iron – “Houthis Attack Central Israel”
Chaim starts by talking about how millions of Israelis were trying to celebrate Passover on Sunday evening, they were forced to run for bomb shelters as ballistic missiles from Yemen were launched at us. They were intercepted, but this is just the latest in a series of such attacks that have been launched in an effort to force Israel to capitulate and disappear, which is not going to happen. The Houthis are getting hit hard by the Americans and previously by Israel, and they will soon be out of the picture.
(Day 548) Swords of Iron – “Hamas is Raining Rockets on Israel”
Chaim starts out by talking about the barrage of ten rockets fired by Hamas at Ashdod and Ashkelon on Sunday evening. He says that Hamas must be forced to take responsability for starting this war and they must also surrender now that they’ve lost the war so it can end.