But is Iran really “the same ancestral land of Haman”?
by Damien F. Mackey “Twenty-five hundred years ago, in ancient Persia, a tyrant rose against us with the very same goal, to utterly destroy our people,” Netanyahu said. “Today as well, on Purim, the lot has fallen, and in the end this evil regime will fall too”. Benjamin Netanyahu It seemed inevitable that such a comparison would be made. Had I not recently written that: Netanyahu likes to recall Amalek (9) Netanyahu likes to recall Amalek With an enormous following of Christian Zionists the Jewish nationalists must consider it to be most beneficial to their cause to ‘justify’ their war with Iran from the Bible, just as they appear to be doing in the case of their genocide of the Palestinians. Just call Iran, the Palestinians, “Amalek”, as, indeed, they are doing, and away we go. For was not he, Haman, who had tried to destroy the Jewish race an Amalekite? And did he not dwell “in anci...