“And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him: 'If Mordechai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.” (Megilat Esther 6:13)

What a powerful message given to Haman by his wife and his advisors. If Mordechai turns out to be of Jewish descent then you are in trouble. According to Bereishis (12:3) G-d has promised that he will curse those that curse the Jews. Many have argued that this is evident throughout history. Nations that have befriended the Jews have experienced tremendous success while those that antagonized the Jews have found misfortune. One example that comes to mind is Spain. They were one of the world's mightiest powers and most developed cultures in the 15th century. In 1492 it reached its zenith when it sent Christopher Columbus on a voyage that changed history. But the same year, it also expelled all its Jews and intensified the Spanish Inquisition against the many forced Jewish converts to Catholicism. What then became of Spain for the next 500 years? Irrelevance and poverty. One only needs to think how fortunate the Arab world would be if they were to accept the existence of the State of Israel. So much blood, money and time has been lost over their hatred of the Jews. It is the United States that has, since its inception, most blessed the Jews. Even to this day, it is unparalleled in its support of the Jewish state against those who wish to exterminate it. By almost any yardstick, America has been, and remains, the most blessed of countries.