By Paul Angel
You may not know this, but in my spare time I have been building a time machine. It’s finished now, so jump inside with me and let’s travel back to the 6th century B.C. and the ancient kingdom of Persia. It’s a powerful empire, ruled by the Achaemenid Dynasty founded by the impressive Cyrus the Great.
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Persia was no backwater empire. It stretched from modern-day Iran to North Africa, the Balkans, the Island of Cyprus, the Levant, the Fertile Crescent, parts of modern-day Turkey, east to the Indus Valley, and all the way up into the Caucasus. At its height, it incorporated 5.5 million square miles of territory. By comparison, the United States comprises 3.53 million square miles.
The Aryan Persians, then practicing the Zoroastrian religion, boasted magnificent cities including Persepolis, Pasargadae, Ecbatana, and Susa. They were extremely advanced for the time.
Now let’s get back in our time machine and transport 75 years or so to the reign of King Ahasuerus who, according to Jewish holy texts—specifically the Book of Esther—ruled Persia for about 30 years. (As no Persian king of that name ever existed, biblical scholars theorize that Ahasuerus, if he truly was a real figure, may in fact refer to Xerxes I, but that is doubtful.)
As we peek in a palace window, we see that the king has just banished his first wife, a Babylonian princess named Vashti, for refusing to appear before him when called—a serious offense.
We also notice that, at the time, many Judeans are spread across the realm, as the Babylonians booted them out of the Kingdom of Judah in 597 B.C.
One Benjaminite descendant of these exiled Jews was named Mordecai, the cousin and guardian of a Jewess named Esther.
Sensing an opportunity, Mordecai schemes to have Esther fill the vacant queen’s seat. But Esther has some stiff competition. Many other maidens also want to be the king’s main squeeze, so the whole group of golddiggers stays at the royal harem in Susa. Most importantly, Mordecai instructs Esther that, above all else, she must deceive the king by camouflaging her Jewish roots.
After a year of Ozempic and a nose job, Esther is ready to be presented to the king. She does not waste her chance. The honeypot meets the king and presumably wows him with her carnal prowess. No doubt, behind the bedroom curtain, Mordecai has stationed a spy to record the events on a clay tablet for future blackmail efforts.
At any rate, the king, not knowing Esther is a Jew, chooses her as his queen or, more likely, top concubine.
After Esther’s coronation, the cunning Mordecai, looking to impress the king and gain further influence over him, hides in the palace garden (he alleges he simply fell asleep) and claims he has overheard a plot by Bigthan and Teresh, two traitorus eunuchs, to kill the king.
(I am not sure why Bigthan and Teresh wanted to kill the king, but, being eunuchs, each had at least two good reasons for a measure of revenge.)
Esther relates these allegations to the king, and Mordecai’s false-flag operation works: Ahasuerus elevates Mordecai in rank, insisting his new vizier, Haman, honor Mordecai by escorting him on horseback through the citadel, shouting his praises.
This was not what Haman had expected. In fact, he knew the king was being scammed by Esther and Mordecai, and was looking to have Mordecai executed, not promoted to a trusted counseling position. As the story goes, Haman had also asked the king’s permission to “holocaust” all the Jews in the empire.
The king, understanding that public opinion polls revealed the growing distaste of the people for unsavory Judean activities in the realm, agreed.
Hence, a date was chosen for the elimination of the Jews in Persia. It would happen on the 13th day of the Hebrew month of Adar. In the year 2026, that equated to March 2.
But the king had fallen head over Persian boots for Esther, so he promised his new bride that any wish she desired would be fulfilled. Esther then claims, under the guidance of Mordecai, that Haman had hatched a plot to kill her, too. She also alleges Haman is a traitor to the empire. By way of deception, Esther wages war on her enemies. Haman is then called before the king and told it is he who will be executed. Haman begs Esther’s mercy. As expected, none is shown.
But Esther has another request of the king. She asks his permission for the Jews to “defend” themselves, alleging the Persians still planned to slaugher her people with every weapon of mass destruction they can lay their hands on. Her wish is granted, and the Jews massacre 75,810 Persians in a shock-and-awe preemptive strike.
That slaughter has forever since been celebrated as the holiday of Purim, in which Jews honor this massacre by, among other lighthearted events, eating “Haman’s Ears,” a triangular, jam-filled pastry—literally cannibalizing their ancestral foe.
Back in our time machine, we whisk ourselves to today. We see a slaughter of Persians happening yet again. It, too, is occurring right around the time of Purim. (If you think the timing of the recent attacks on Iran was arbitrarily launched on the eve of Purim, I ask you to reconsider your position.)
Today, we see Donald Trump filling the part of the duped King Ahasuerus, while Benjamin Netanyahu and his necon fanatics together assume their roles as the devious Mordechai and crafty Esther, cooing in the ruler’s ear with songs of Jewish extermination.
Will this current war on Persia end when the forces of Zion have killed 75,810 Iranians? Has the “great king” of a massive empire been duped again? Is Netanyahu fulfilling biblical prophecy? Is he looking to usher in Armageddon?
Note that the Persian Empire survived for 200 more years after Esther’s perfidy. No doubt, the modern-day and quite resilient Iranians will survive as well, possibly once again, in the near future, claiming their place as a great power, as is their historic right.
A subscriber wrote to tell me that America can’t be great again until the people are moral and good once again. An encouraging first step would be for us all to loudly voice our unwillingness to support any more unjust and immoral wars at the behest of Zion.
Paul Angel is the Managing Editor of American Free Press. He can be reached at Paul@AmericanFreePress.net.
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