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Day 472 Swords of Iron – “Congratulations President Trump!”

Chaim starts the video by wishing newly inaugurated US President Donald J. Trump congratulations and assuring him that he speaks for many in the IDF and Israel in general when he says that he’s very happy to see Trump return to the White House.

He then acknowledges that there have been several US Presidents who were good friends with Israel, and he looks forward to a new era with this new Administration.

But, there’s still work to be done here in Israel. Chaim mentions that he was just at yet another funeral of Oran Shaul, who was killed in action and his body kidnapped into Gaza by Hamas in 2014. His remains were rescued just a few hours before the cease-fire started and brought back into Israel to be buried.

There is joy in Israel over the closure this brings for his family, as well as the release of Israeli hostages in the initial phase of the cease-fire deal.

However, there is also consternation over the high number of Palestinian security prisoners who are also being released. Israel values life, but there are questions about how far and at what cost these trades are made. One question is whether or not anyone else besides Israel would ever be pushed to negotiate with terrorists the way Israel has been pushed into accepting this deal.

There is also a practical question about what Israel and the IDF is going to have to do in order to protect themselves from these large numbers of terrorists who are being released into Judea and Samaria, eastern Jerusalem, and even into Gaza itself.

But Chaim concludes by confidently declaring that as long as Israel has faith in our God, we will be on the right track, and terrorism will lose.

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(Day 540) Swords of Iron – “What Color is a Jew?”

Chaim starts out by saying that the IDF is hard at work keeping Israel safe and trying for a quiet weekend, which he says Israel needs in order to recuperate. At the same time, he notes that in Gaza, leaflets were distributed advising the residents to move away from areas that were about to be attacked. There have even been instances when an individual who wasn’t moving out of a building that was about to be struck was called and convinced to leave just before the strike came and destroyed that building. Chaim says this is an example of how the IDF is serious and its warnings should be taken seriously.

(Day 539) Swords of Iron – “Shabbat peace as the storm rages”

The video begins with a montage of combat footage that Chaim has taken before the scene changes to Chaim welcoming in the Sabbath with a group of other soldiers, obviously in battlefield conditions. The Jewish soldiers are all heavily armed and wearing full combat gear, but they are singing, praying and eating the Shabbat meal together just the same.

(Day 538) Swords of Iron – “The Waiting Game”

Chaim starts off by talking about ballistic missile attacks by the Houthis on Jerusalem, and says that as bad as they are, it was much worse before Israel had the Iron Dome and other air defense systems. Chaim also concedes that these systems are very expensive but he mentions the “Iron Beam” laser which will shoot down incoming missiles for a fraction of the cost, and soon everyone will want it.

(Day 537) Swords of Iron – USA Stealth bombers head toward Iran and Yemen

Chaim starts by talking about how the US military is deploying assets to Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean which also serves as a major hub for US military operations in the Middle East. Chaim says that all this firepower might soon be unleashed on the Houthis in Yemen, who have no way of defending against it. But the other major target is Iran, and some of their strategic assets are deep underground where even the American mili might have a hard time getting at them. Chaim says that Iran is showing this capability off to the world, clearly hoping to intimidate and discourage the US and Israel rom striking, but that is very unlikely to be successful.

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