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Day 223 Swords of Iron – “Paying the ultimate price for freedom”

Chaim begins the video by saying that it’s not easy to fight for one’s country, and sometimes it costs soldiers their lives. Chaim describes a friend of his, Liron Yitzhak, who died the previous day from wounds he suffered while serving as a civilian contractor in Gaza.

Chaim adds that this man was looking forward to getting married in just two weeks.

Another soldier, who is also a friend of Chaim’s, was wounded in that same incident, and he is also looking forward to getting married soon. Chaim visited this soldier in the hospital and thanked God for saving his life.

Chaim says that it is precisely during tough times like this that it’s most important to step up and defend what’s true, what’s right, what’s pure and what’s holy. He mentions that Hezbollah is also increasing the frequency and intensity of its fires on northern Israel, sending a UAV into the Galilee region that impacted in an area not so far away from Chaim’s home where his wife and young children live.

But, the main objective of the IDF right now is the last remaining formations of Hamas in Rafah, even as Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israel. Chaim also adds that five IDF soldiers were killed in action on Wednesday, including a young man who was a lone soldier and had stayed at the Lone Soldier’s home at the Aliyah Return Center for a time.

Chaim concludes by declaring that he agrees with a recent statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he said that we won’t allow the “Hamastan” regime in Gaza to be replaced by a “Fatahstan” run by the Palestinian Authority. Instead, we’ll have peace on both our northern and southern borders.

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(Day 540) Swords of Iron – “What Color is a Jew?”

Chaim starts out by saying that the IDF is hard at work keeping Israel safe and trying for a quiet weekend, which he says Israel needs in order to recuperate. At the same time, he notes that in Gaza, leaflets were distributed advising the residents to move away from areas that were about to be attacked. There have even been instances when an individual who wasn’t moving out of a building that was about to be struck was called and convinced to leave just before the strike came and destroyed that building. Chaim says this is an example of how the IDF is serious and its warnings should be taken seriously.

(Day 539) Swords of Iron – “Shabbat peace as the storm rages”

The video begins with a montage of combat footage that Chaim has taken before the scene changes to Chaim welcoming in the Sabbath with a group of other soldiers, obviously in battlefield conditions. The Jewish soldiers are all heavily armed and wearing full combat gear, but they are singing, praying and eating the Shabbat meal together just the same.

(Day 538) Swords of Iron – “The Waiting Game”

Chaim starts off by talking about ballistic missile attacks by the Houthis on Jerusalem, and says that as bad as they are, it was much worse before Israel had the Iron Dome and other air defense systems. Chaim also concedes that these systems are very expensive but he mentions the “Iron Beam” laser which will shoot down incoming missiles for a fraction of the cost, and soon everyone will want it.

(Day 537) Swords of Iron – USA Stealth bombers head toward Iran and Yemen

Chaim starts by talking about how the US military is deploying assets to Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean which also serves as a major hub for US military operations in the Middle East. Chaim says that all this firepower might soon be unleashed on the Houthis in Yemen, who have no way of defending against it. But the other major target is Iran, and some of their strategic assets are deep underground where even the American mili might have a hard time getting at them. Chaim says that Iran is showing this capability off to the world, clearly hoping to intimidate and discourage the US and Israel rom striking, but that is very unlikely to be successful.

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