“… There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples …” (Esther 3:8)
How was Haman’s claim of Bnei Yisrael’s dispersion beneficial for his proposal to Achashveirosh?
If Bnei Yisrael were united they would have formed an independent country that could have harmed Achashveirosh’s kingdom. However because they were scattered it was easy for Achashveirosh to rule over all of them.
However Haman’s scheming went further than this simple explanation. In mentioning that Bnei Yisroel were scattered he was insinuating that it would be easy to destroy them due to their diversity. He knew that when Bnei Yisrael are united they merit a special protection from Hashem. But now that they were becoming assimilated among the nations they had distanced themselves from Hashem and the time was ripe to destroy them. (Rav Chaim Freidlander Sifsei Chaim vol. 2 199)
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