Chaim starts by saying that it’s a good thing that Israel is winning on the kinetic battlefields, on the media battlefield, it’s a different story. The Western world, in general, is in very bad shape and as an example, Chaim points to a recent incident in which a man stood up on a flight to Glasgow, Scotland, and shouted threats to destroy the plane and said it was because of “Trump” and other things like this.

Chaim starts by saying that the kinetic battle in Gaza might be over for now, but these are still difficult times. The Israelis feel like they’re worn down to the bone marrow and in Lebanon, Hezbollah seems to be gearing up for another round of fighting. The IDF is striking them pre-emptively to try and disrupt these plans and having a great deal of success, but Iran is relentlessly moving weapons, terrorists and money into Lebanon so that Hezbollah can continue with it’s plans. It’s a race to see how long Israel can continue destroying Hezbollah and how long Iran will continue trying to prop it up.

Chaim starts by saying that things are not “all roses” as the security situation in Gaza is rapidly deteriorating and there are also problems on other fronts. But in Gaza, Hamas has been rounding up its opponents and brutally executing them in public. There are videos of this all over the internet and even the US military is warning Hamas to knock it off.

Chaim starts out by saying he’s out of uniform today. It is Simchat Torah, the day that Jewish people come to the end of the yearlong cycle of Torah reading and roll it back to the beginning. It’s also the day two years ago when Hamas launched its massacre of Israelis and also took 251 Israelis captive back into Gaza.