THE JEWISH WARS AGAINST ROME

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In year 66 of the Common Era (CE), a group of Jewish rebels began their Revolt against Rome by capturing the Roman fortress of Masada, located on a hill overlooking the Dead Sea in southeastern Palestine. Upon capturing Masada, this rebel group put to the sword all the Roman soldiers at the fort. These militants subsequently captured another Roman outpost, the fortress “Antonia.” Having heard of the massacre at Masada, these Roman soldiers asked for terms of surrender and to be allowed free passage out of Judaea. The Jewish militants agreed to the terms of surrender, but as soon as the Romans had surrendered their weapons, the militants slaughtered them all as they had previously done at the fortress of Masada.(20) This slaughtering of unarmed people after an act of surrender will also be seen later in our sad historical tour at the 1948 massacre of the unarmed Arab villagers of Dayr Yasin by the Zionist guerilla groups, Irgun Zvai Le’umi (the Irgun) and Le’umi Herut Israel (the LeHI).