Lies Richard Silverstein Told US-Jewish Suicide Bombers??

from Lies Jeffrey Goldberg Told Me (About Gaza)
On January 14th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
tzvee said:

Terror is not a response to oppression. The two have no connection whatsoever. Proof? When Jews were oppressed for millenia - they did not become wanton pointless terrorists.

Richard Silverstein said:

That’s not quite true now is it, Tzvee. What were the Maccabees if not guerilla insurgents of their day? They too engaged in suicide attacks on their Greek enemies. They too killed their own (Jewish Hellenizers) when they viewed them as traitors to their own (Maccabean) form of Jewish values.
And you don’t think the Romans viewed the Kochbaites as terrorists? What about the Sicarii who executed their fellow Jews as a result of religious-political differences? How about the Jewish partisans fighting the Nazis? YOu don’t think the Germans viewed them as terrorists? YOu see, one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. It all depends on your national perspective.
Beware any ideological partisan like Tzvee who claims his own side is white as snow and the other side black as coal. Each side ends up a dingy grey which is the truth of current situation with Israel and Hamas.

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Taming Korach:

@Richard
The elephant fell on you & killed you.
You may have picked this up wrong. According to a Torah Lab translation of The Scroll Of Antiochus:
“Elazar was trying to kill the elephants, but he drowned in elephant dung. When they returned from battle they sought him and could not find him, until eventually they found that he had drowned in elephant dung.”
Apparently one soldier died from elephant dung. In any case, the books regarding Hannukah were not Divinely inspired and so were not included in the Hebrew Bible. The source for holiday Hannukah, the Gemara (Shabbat 21) never mentions such an incident-certainly no “suicide attack.”