Support for Israel has slipped to a historic new low with more Americans sympathizing with Palestine for the first time in decades. As Israel's war in Gaza rages on, a new Gallup poll showed that 41% of Americans now say they sympathize more with Palestinians, while just 36% sympathize more with Israelis. These figures indicate a total inversion of public opinion, with 46% of Americans sympathizing more with Israel just a year ago, while Palestinian support sat at 33%. These sympathies still diverge based on partisanship, with 70% of Republicans supporting Israelis while just 13% support Palestinians. Inversely, 65% of Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians while just 17% sympathize more with Israelis. Last year, 42% of independents were more sympathetic to Israelis while 34% sympathized more with Palestinians. Now the trend has reversed with 41% sympathizing more with Palestinians while 30% sympathize more with Israelis. Israel said on Saturday that it has taken part in a U.S.-led military operation in Iran, with Jerusalem reportedly targeting the top leadership of the Islamist regime in Tehran. “For 47 years, the Ayatollah regime has called out ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America.’ It has shed our blood, murdered many Americans, and massacred its own people,” Netanyahu said. “This murderous terror regime must not be allowed to arm itself with nuclear weapons that would enable it to threaten all of humanity,” he continued, adding: “Our joint action will create the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their destiny into their own hands.” “The time has come for all parts of the Iranian people — the Persians, the Kurds, the Azeris, the Baloch, and the Ahwazi — to cast off the yoke of tyranny and bring about a free and peace-seeking Iran,” he declared. Iranian state media confirmed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death in the opening minutes of joint US-Israel strikes on his Tehran compound during Shabbat Zachor. This is the special Sabbath of remembrance immediately before Purim. An Israeli official told Reuters the body was recovered from rubble after approximately thirty bombs struck the site. The strikes struck precisely on Shabbat Zachor. On this day synagogues read Deuteronomy 25:17-19. This passage commands remembrance of Amalek’s unprovoked attack and the obligation to blot out Amalek’s memory from under heaven. The haftarah from 1 Samuel 15 recounts Saul’s incomplete destruction of Amalek. It allowed King Agag to survive and later produce Haman the Agagite. Purim celebrates the decisive reversal. The Jews defended themselves successfully. The tables turned on their enemies. Khamenei’s elimination on Zachor, followed by widespread reports of Iranians cheering in Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, and Shiraz, carries unmistakable echoes. Cars honked. People gathered on rooftops and streets. They celebrated openly despite the regime’s declared forty-day mourning period. ...the prevailing sound from inside Iran was joy at the tyrant’s fall. The Book of Esther records that on the thirteenth of Adar, the Jews prevailed across the empire’s 127 provinces without taking spoils. In Shushan, the capital, the fighting extended to the fourteenth day. It ended with the hanging of Haman’s ten sons and total triumph. Immediately after these two days of decisive victory, Esther 8:17 states plainly: “And many people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.” The Sages in Megillah explain this as genuine affiliation. Many were drawn by the clear evidence of divine protection and the Jews’ steadfast stand. The pattern repeats today. A regime that armed Hamas terrorists for October 7, supplied Hezbollah rockets, and vowed Israel’s destruction now faces leadership decapitation. Trump’s call for Iranians to seize their freedom and Netanyahu’s urging to finish the job mirror the ancient Persian decree that empowered the Jews to stand and fight. The Iranian people, long oppressed under the mullahs, responded with open rejoicing. This is precisely the response Scripture describes when the wicked perish (Proverbs 11:10). A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood-red on Purim itself, March 3, 2026. It will be visible across wide regions of the world. Joel 2:31 declares, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come.” The Sages connect celestial signs on appointed festivals to messages of deliverance. Coming right after Zachor and the removal of a modern figure who embodied relentless enmity toward Israel, the alignment stands as anything but a coincidence. God keeps His calendar. He marks His seasons. He acts in history to protect the nation He chose. https://israel365news.com/416463/purim-primed-khamenei-dead-on-shabbat-zachor-iranians-rejoice/ 
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