(Day 629) Swords of Iron – “Who won the war?”

Chaim starts out by describing the ludicrously absurd nonsense that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spewed in his pre-recorded video announcement about how his military forces delivered a crushing defeat to Israel and a “hard slap” to the United States. Chaim says that this man is “delusional” and there are many others, including US President Donald Trump, who appear to think the same thing.

Speaking of President Trump, he now says that he hopes to expand the Abraham Accords and there are many reasons to believe that this might be about to happen.

So the question at this point is, who won this war?

Chaim rattles off some of the statistics about how many precision munitions were dropped on Iran’s nuclear facilities, how many high-ranking officers they lost, how many nuclear scientists they lost, how many administrators they lost, how many of their ballistic missiles and the launchers to fire them were destroyed on the ground, etc.

Chaim calls these missile launchers the “bow of Elam” in a reference to Jeremiah 49:35; “This is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Behold, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the finest of their might.”

Elam was one of the ancient names of the country, which today is called Iran.

At the same time, Iran’s proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, mostly sat this war out, for different reasons.

On the other side, the US didn’t lose any aircraft in their strikes and Israel only lost two unmanned drones shot down over Iran, while the home front back in Israel suffered some damage, but nothing we can’t recover from.

Meanwhile, Hamas continues stealing humanitarian aid shipments and the international community continues to turn a blind eye to it. The IDF is continuing to crush Hamas and destroy its tunnels as well as the above-ground infrastructure so that it can’t threaten Israel in the future.

Chaim adds that the Aliyah Return Center’s Emergency Aid Initiative is continuing to assist large numbers of people in distress here in Israel as a result of this war, and he asks his viewers to continue supporting these efforts with prayers and donations.

He also acknowledges that it’s been difficult in Israel over the past almost two years of war and there is still a lot of work to do but he is very optimistic for the future and in this context, he quotes Isaiah 41:10; Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’