On March 3, Real Clear Politics posted an article about some of the history between Iran and Israel. Remember, Iran is not an Arab country–it is Persian, and Israel and Persia have a history. Israel is currently celebrating the feast of Purim, where Queen Esther prevented the genocide of the Jewish population in Persia.
The article reports:
The joint United States and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, 2026, did more than destroy military infrastructure. They decapitated the ideological command center of a regime that has spent four decades promising Israel’s annihilation and financing America’s enemies. The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marks the most consequential blow to state-sponsored terror in modern history.
It revives a question Jewish thinkers have wrestled with for centuries: When does confronting evil move from a strategic option to a moral obligation?
The Torah’s final commandment provides the frame. “Remember what Amalek did to you … you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget.” The mandate sounds ruthless because it addresses something ruthless: a force that attacks the vulnerable without provocation and defines itself through destruction.
Maimonides did not treat Amalek as a racial category. He treated it as conditional. If Amalek accepted basic moral law, it survived. If it persisted in predatory evil, it forfeited its claim to endure. Amalek therefore describes not bloodline, but ideology – a governing doctrine that sacralizes annihilation.
The article notes:
The timing could not resonate more clearly. Purim begins as the Iranian regime loses its supreme leader. The Megillah names its villain precisely: Haman the Agagite, traced to Agag, king of Amalek. Scripture signals continuity. Hatred survives defeat. It reappears when it acquires power.
October 7 exposed that continuity in blood. Hamas did not act spontaneously. It operated within an architecture financed, armed, trained, and strategically directed by Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The massacre of civilians – deliberate, theatrical, ecstatic – reflected doctrine, not desperation. It was a demonstration of what the regime believes is holy.
Iran built the machinery that made it possible.
The article concludes:
Amalek returns whenever annihilation joins theology to weapons and funding. Purim does not mark vengeance. It marks survival – the moment when a people recognized genocidal intent before it matured beyond containment.
This year, as the Megillah recounts the fall of Haman the Agagite, the final mitzvah reminds us that confronting predatory ideology cannot wait until encirclement completes itself.
The obligation lies in refusing to mistake declared annihilation for diplomacy – and in acting before the next decree becomes irreversible.
Many people in America and around the world are tired of diplomacy that simply feeds the other guy to the alligator. It’s time to destroy the alligator.