beautiful Jewess

Marjorie Garber of Harvard draws the parallel between the Lewinsky affair and the Megillah. “The play casts itself,” writes Garber: Bill Clinton plays King Ahasuerus, while “Hillary is Vashti, the headstrong proto-feminist queen . . . and Monica, needless to say, is Esther, the beautiful Jewess.” - The Problem with Purim

Cohen writes: "we cannot ignore the fact that it is Esther who asks the king for an additional day on which the Jews can kill their enemies."

Yoram Hazony argues in his book The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther, Esther’s request for an extra 24 hours of Jewish self-defense in the capital of Susa was good strategy.

формулировочки... не зря он там пишет

...setting the stage for a massive score-settling in which those who planned to murder the Jews are instead the ones who are killed in a preemptive war of self-defense.