A call to courage: What Judah Maccabee can teach Israel today - opinion
In Josephus’s account, Judah repeatedly stresses that Israel does not seek dominion over others, only the right to live according to its ancestral traditions in its own land.
Israel’s modern soldiers carry the moral continuity of a 3,000-year-old promise.(photo credit: FLASH90)ByMICHAEL FREUND