“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it certainly does rhyme.”  Mark Twain

It just cannot be a coincidence.  Even though over 2500 years of history have passed, there are just too many connections.  This Monday, March 2nd, is Purim, the Jewish festival that celebrates the victory in 473 BC. of the Jewish people of the Persian empire over a clique of ruling elites who plotted to destroy them. Today Israel and the Jewish people are putting their lives on the line, together with the Americans, to defeat the current ruling Ayatollah clique that is holding the Iranian people captive.  Today, Israel and the Jewish people are repaying a 2500-year-old historical debt owed to the Persia people.

Following his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, Cyrus the Great........

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