Day 380 Swords of Iron – “Victory for Light over Dark Radwan Force Tunnels“

Chaim starts the video by saying that he’s back in southern Lebanon for the first time since he fought in the Second Lebanon War in 2006. He says he can remember that first war like it was yesterday, but there was no Iron Dome back then and most of the rest of Israel’s missile defense architecture was not yet in place.

There were a lot of rockets fired into Israel in the 2006 Second Lebanon War and it caused a lot of trauma and damage. The situation today is better, with the interceptors able to stop a lot of the rockets from getting through and hitting people and infrastructure, but it’s still very traumatic for the population of Israel to be hit with all this ordnance.

Chaim is one of the Ya’alom combat engineers who are going into southern Lebanon to find and destroy Hezbollah’s weapons before they can be fired into Israel. Large quantities of these weapons, and the tunnels and bunkers they were stored in, along with other elements of the Radwan Force terror infrastructure, have already been destroyed, but there’s a lot of work still to be done.

Chaim mentions that the Radwan Force was already in position and equipped to carry out a massacre in the north similar to what Hamas did on Israel’s southern communities, and there’s no other explanation for why they didn’t follow through with their plans except that God spared Israel this nightmare scenario.

But Chaim says there’s a LOT of work to do to remove this threat, and the surviving Hezbollah fighters are continuing to fire rockets into Israel, although at a rate much lower than what they were expected to do.

Chaim says that “a new day” is possible now that Nasrallah and Sinwar and so many of the other leaders of these terrorist organizations have been eliminated, but there is still the main source of the problem, which is Iran. Iran just attempted to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a drone strike on his private home in Caesarea.

Chaim says this is another indication that this war is far from over and there is still lots of work to do. There are still lots of threats, and Iran is the ultimate threat that must be faced. Chaim mentions the leak of intelligence in the US which might have compromised some of the plans that Israel had to carry out strikes on Iran, but Chaim says despite such problems, there is still a God in heaven who watches over the affairs of men.

In this context, he quotes Psalms 44:4-8; You are my King, O God; command victories for Jacob. Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me.

But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put to shame those who hated us. In God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever. Selah