Day 417 Swords of Iron – “Ceasefire with Hezbollah End of terror”

Chaim starts the video by mentioning that a cease-fire is in the works in Lebanon, but that doesn’t mean the war is over. Chaim says that the IDF troops are being advised to stay alert because there could be an attack from Iran and Hezbollah at the same time, which they’d launch after Israel let its guard down because of the cease-fire.

There are also other contingencies being trained and prepared for in many different cities all over Israel, from Haifa all the way down to Eilat. There has also been an uptick in terrorism in Judea and Samaria in recent weeks, so that’s another front that could quickly get our of hand.

For that matter, in the days and hours before a cease-fire, Hezbollah is going all out to fire as many weapons into Israel as they possibly can, even hitting the Palestinian Authority-administered city of Tulkarm in Samaria, wounding 15 people.

Chaim also mentions the situation in Gaza, where Hamas is stealing most of the humanitarian aid shipments that get sent into the Strip and selling the flour and other food to the residents at inflated prices.

Chaim then returns to the subject of a cease-fire in Lebanon, saying that we have to wait and see what happens and he says he isn’t very optimistic. He believes Israel had Hezbollah on the back foot and could have kept pushing, but he also thinks that Hezbollah is unlikely to honor the cease-fire so Israel might still have a chance to finish them off, and this time no one can complain about it.

Chaim also says that there’s a lot of complicated mechanisms built into the cease-fire agreement that could allow Hezbollah to cheat, just like what happened after the Second Lebanon War in 2006, which ended with UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which was never honored or enforced. Right now the IDF has reached the Litani River and has cleared much of the Hezbollah infrastructure to the south of it. This is what UNSCR 1701 was supposed to look like, and it’s only happening because the IDF made it happen. UNIFIL utterly failed to enforce this Resolution and there’s no good reason to think they’ll do any better this time.

SO Chaim quotes Winston Churchill’s speech in which he said that the choice is between war and shame, and if you choose shame, you’ll get war just a little bit later and under less advantageous circumstances. So Chaim says it’s better to choose victory, in Gaza, Lebanon and the entire Middle East region. Chaim also says that the IDF is a great army but it can’t fight these battles alone. We need the support of people who pray for us and support us in other ways.