Day 414 Swords of Iron – “Shabbat Shalom from the Land of Zion”

Chaim starts the video by saying “Shabbat Shalom” and he adds that you can say that even on a battlefield because Israelis love peace and yearn for it, but our neighbors don’t always want to give us peace, so we have to fight for it.

He then asks a rhetorical question about what will happen next in Iran, with the Supreme Leader dying and trying to hand the leadership of the regime off to his son Mojtabar. Chaim wonders if the son will follow a similar path as his father or chart a new path.

Chaim also talks about some other issues facing Israel including the possibility of an expanded Abraham Accords to include a normalization treaty with Saudi Arabia, the rising tide of anti-Semitic violence in Europe, the ICC arrest warrants against Israeli officials, and other issues.

He says that anti-Semitism causes people to believe bizarre things, like calling the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland “colonialism” and so forth. Chaim says it’s often a spiritual issue when people are disproportionately outraged at Israel and ignore very real and very terrible examples of human rights abuses elsewhere. This phenomenon reaches truly absurd proportions and Chaim cites the example of “Queers for Palestine”.

But this phenomenon is also observable in some churches and institutions of higher learning, including some of the world’s leading universities. There are more resolutions against Israel at the UN General Assembly then the entire rest of the world combined, and far more than there are against North Korea, Syria and some other obvious human rights violators.

But despite this madness which is already widespread and still growing, Chaim says he believes righteousness will prevail. In this context, he concludes by quoting Psalms 143