It is like the Persians in Haman’s day, and Iran today with their leaders: many of the ‘common people’ could not understand why leaders wanted to destroy the Jewish people and nation, and were glad when the surprise victory came.
So, too, the current situation in Israel and the Middle East: many of the political and religious leaders of the different Arab peoples stir up trouble to get people so upset with ‘the Jews/Israelis’, even to the point of wanting to see them killed off, or at least sent back into exile. But surely there are many ‘common people’ — the ‘salt of the earth’ — who wonder why this should be so and who inwardly rejoice when they see the Jewish people overcome yet again. They need to be encouraged to withstand threats and false accusations.
Things do not change; history has a way of repeating itself, and the Bible isn’t being changed to meet ‘changing times’. It would help if we would learn from history, rather than ignoring it as a relic of its past.