Day 385 Swords of Iron – “Zionism”
Chaim starts by saying how amazing it is that in Israel today, everyone can celebrate Simchat Torah, but there’s an even bigger miracle happening before our eyes. He says that Iran, a large, powerful country, has been preparing to make war on Israel for many years and this includes sending large quantities of weapons and ammunition to its proxies in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and elsewhere in the region.
In these days, large numbers of rockets, missiles, UAVs and other weapons are being fired into Israeli towns, including an Arab-Israeli village called Majd al-Krum, causing damage and casualties. Many other Israeli communities have been hit and damaged and all of this is happening as many people in Western universities have been told a lie about what the term “Zionism” means.
Chaim says that a “Zionist” is simply someone who believes that there was a Jewish homeland in Eretz Y’Israel before and there should be one again. There are different types of Zionism and there are people who express their Zionism in different ways, but at its core, all Zionism is about this simple idea that Jewish people need to have a state of their own. This idea is mentioned over 150 times in the Bible, and that’s why Chaim and others created the Aliyah Return Center, to help new immigrants when they first arrive in this country.
Chaim then says he wants to make a simple test to see if his viewers are “Zionists” or not.
He then proceeds to ask a series of rhetorical questions about various concepts that most modern, liberal thinkers would agree with, and he says that if anyone does NOT agree with these concepts as they relate to the Jewish People, than that is a hypocritical double standard.
He concludes by quoting Micah 7:8; Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
