By Kam Zarrabi, Intellectual Discourse
In my last article, The Wild
Kingdom, I
demonstrated the parallels between the narratives in the Old Testament and the
ongoing events in the
Again, I
must emphasize that Biblical narratives seldom reflect either the actual
historical events or follow the timeline of history. Yet, all such stories are
representations or reflections of man's hopes and anxieties, aspiration and
fears, throughout the ages and to this day.
There is
hardly any doubt that the story of Esther and Mordakhai is pure fiction, in
spite of the fact that a site believed to be the tomb of this uncle and niece in
In my
previous article I demonstrated that, unfortunately, the triumph of one people
is almost inevitably at some other people's demise. In the story of Esther, the
Jewish wife of the Persian monarch (best guess as who this king was supposed to
be is Artakhshathra I or II, not Xerxes as some believe), upon hearing about a
plot to exterminate the Jewish population of
Esther
Chapter 8
11 The king granted the Jews in every city to
gather and to stand for their lives, to destroy, to slay.... all that would
assault them, including little children and women, and to plunder their
possessions.
Esther Chapter
9
5 Thus the Jews killed all their enemies with
the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they
wanted to those that hated them.
12 And the king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and
destroyed five hundred men in Shushan. .....Now what is your request further, and
it shall be done."
13 Then said Esther, "...let it be granted to the
Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree...."
15 The Jews in Shushan gathered on the fourteenth day of the month
Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan....
16 But the other Jews
that were in the king's provinces gathered together and stood for their lives,
and slew of their foes seventy and five
thousand....
Initially, it was thought that
In an article by Pat Buchanan, appearing in antiwar.com web site, he criticizes columnist Lawrence Kudlow, who believes that "Israel is doing the Lord's work."
Now
let's see how the current scenario could possibly evolve into a regional
conflagration with global implications. By that I mean the very real possibility
of stretching the current confrontations in
First, let us refresh ourselves with how Queen Esther managed to convince her husband to vanquish her detractor, Haman. Knowing, through Mordakhai, her uncle, that the Evil One is none other than Haman, she invites Haman, now increasingly under suspicion and disfavor by the king, to the palace in a seemingly friendly gesture.
Esther
Chapter 7
1.So the king and Haman came to drink with
Queen Esther.
Esther immediately points the finger at Haman
and.....
6. ... Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy,
this evil Haman!" And Haman became terrified before the king and the
queen.
Well, that cunningly staged performance convinced the monarch to agree to all Esther's biddings, ergo the gruesome details of the following events in Chapters 8 and 9.
Today's Haman is represented by
So what might our shrewd Esther or Hadassah, do this time to unleash the monarch's wrath upon her ill-wishers?
Suppose the runways in the main airport in
Upon further examination, the pieces of the missile found at the site are found to have the unmistakable markings of the Islamic Republic of Iran!
The evidence is now irrefutable, just as was the case when the King entered and found Haman attempting to molest Queen Esther right there in the King's own chambers!
No
matter what
With only less that 2% genetic separation between the chimpanzees and us humans, what do you expect? At least our animal cousins don't pretend; their wild instincts are never masked like ours under a phony, self-serving veneer of righteousness.
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