In the days ahead, Jews around the world will

celebrate Purim, a festival the Bible directs us to remember, when the

Jewish people were delivered more than 2,000 years ago in Persia (modern

day Iran) from an evil anti-Semite –Haman — who had manipulated the

king into issuing a decree that would annihilate the Jews.

According to the biblical account, Esther, a Jew,

and her cousin, Mordecai, who raised her, were the instruments of

deliverance.

This Tuesday, just hours before the Purim holiday

begins, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the U.S.

Congress, at the invitation of House Speaker John Boehner, to explain

why his country cannot tolerate the threat from another group of evil

anti-Semites in Iran to annihilate the Jews: the acquisition of nuclear

weapons by the Ayatollah Khamenei and his government.

via The Light Seed.