It seemed almost inevitable. The Ayatollahs continued to denigrate Israel and the USA, calling us the ‘Little Satan’ and the ‘Big Satan’ respectively, pretending to negotiate terms for reducing their nuclear weapons programme while not actually doing anything of the sort, and the USA continued to build up its potential to attack in the region. I personally never believed that the massive American potential to strike would be disbanded without being activated.

And so it was. The only surprise was the timing. We had half-hoped for an  ironic twist to the Purim story, with the denouement coming on the anniversary of the day we celebrate the dastardly plot to kill all the Jews of ancient Persia two and a half thousand years ago. But........

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