(Day 673) Swords of Iron – “Gasp For Air”
Chaim starts by saying that he’s standing outside in the cool of the night and he’s looking up at the sky and he doesn’t see any ballistic missiles being intercepted. He says it’s nice, and sometimes people who are going through a hard time just need something nice to help them get through it. That’s why the Aliyah Return Center is holding a barbecue for some IDF soldiers, who are battle-weary but not defeated. Chaim quickly interviews an ARC volunteer from the US State of Florida who is helping with the barbecue.
(Day 672) Swords of Iron – “Israel to control all of Gaza”
Chaim starts by saying that he is filming from Eilat, Israel’s Red Sea resort city at the southernmost tip of the city. He says it’s very hot, which is why he loves to hear the cool voices of reason, such as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said this week that there will be no peace until Hamas is disbanded. He’s got the right idea, and he’s putting the blame for all the problems in the right place, and Chaim can’t understand why more people don’t see things so clearly.
(Day 671) Swords of Iron – “It’s Time”
Chaim starts by saying that he’s filming this video in the dry Negev Desert of southern Israel and he says that many soldiers feel like this desert. They need some encouragement and he asks his viewers to support the Aliyah Return Center’s efforts to provide more barbecues for the soldiers to encourage them as they prepare for one last push to take control of the last parts of the Gaza Strip where Hamas still holds total control.
(Day 670) Swords of Iron – “Hate and Intimidation”
Chaim starts by saying that he knows this war will be over someday and there have been many heroes who fought in this war, spending months away from their families, their jobs, their communities and their lives. He wonders if their sacrifice will be honored or if they will be attacked for it, like several IDF veterans have already been. He also laments some of the other hateful and anti-Semitic antics that have accompanied many of the anti-Israel protests around the world, in addition to a massive increase in anti-Semitic attacks worldwide.
(Day 668) Swords of Iron – “This Must Only End One Way”
Chaim starts by saying that there’s only one way this war can end, and that’s with Israel achieving a total and complete victory.
(Day 667) Swords of Iron – “Day of Tragedies”
Chaim starts by informing his viewers that it is the Ninth of Av, the day on the Hebrew calendar when both the First and Second Temple was destroyed and when many other tragedies befell the Jewish People. He then says that right now, there is a tragedy because there are still at least 20 Israeli hostages being held in Gaza, with the remains of many more who have died in captivity and might never be recovered.
(Day 666) Swords of Iron – “Double standard much?”
Chaim starts out by saying the world seems upside down and he’s seeing “cognitive dissonance,” whereby the truth is right in front of people’s faces, but they’re choosing to see something different. In this case, he’s talking about people who choose to believe the lie that Israel is causing a famine in the Gaza Strip, when there is so much evidence that Israel is sending humanitarian aid into the Strip while Hamas is stealing it.
(Day 665) Swords of Iron – “Shalom”
Chaim starts by saying “Shabbat Shalom” because he’s filming on Friday evening just before the Sabbath starts. He adds that this is all Israelis want is to live in peace and be left alone and make a positive contribution to the world and the region. But now, alerts have been issued even in countries that Israel has a normalization treaty with such as the UAE, because Iran and Hamas are threatening to carry out a strike against the Israeli diplomats there.
(Day 664) Swords of Iron – “Rewarding terrorism with a state?!”
Chaim starts by saying that he’s filming in a bomb shelter, where millions of Israelis have been spending a lot of time over the past 22 months of this war as tens of thousands of missiles, rockets and drones have been fired at us by Iran and its terrorist proxies. However, after all that, Israelis are now being hit by some more bad news in the form of major Western European countries threatening to recognize a Palestinian State and giving little in the way of justification beyond an apparent belief that Israel deserves to suffer a diplomatic setback as a punishment for its military victories.
(Day 663) Swords of Iron – “Yes? Or No?”
Chaim starts by showing his viewers what it looks like when the air raid sirens are sounding and everyone is running to bomb shelters in Tel Aviv because the Houthis in Yemen have launched a ballistic missile at Israel.