Bon, en nu wachten hoe

Bon, en nu wachten hoe lang het duurt eer Nachman Ben-Yehuda als een anti-semiet afgeschilderd wordt:

Contrary to the popular tale of heroism at Masada, Mr. Ben-Yehuda views the Sicarii as terrorists who killed innocent people and committed suicide rather than fight to the death. “If you read Josephus Flavius, there is no heroism” in the Masada story, the professor says. But like other Israelis of his generation and preceding ones, the 54-year-old scholar was weaned on the heroic epic, which had been molded by the Zionists to forge a new Jewish identity, he says. “They needed a new type of Jew, somebody who was willing to fight and die for his own country.” [Chronicle of Higher Education]

Van heroïsche vrijheidsstrijders tot fanatische terrristern, kleine stap, jaja.