The Purim festival, which commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from annihilation in fifth-century BCE Persia, is being invoked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir as a historical parallel to the current US-Israeli campaign against Iran.

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