Bush likely to make symbolic visit to Masada

said they had been searching for a symbolic location for the president to visit

avoiding contentious sites

The primary archeologist, Yigael Yadin, has recently come under charges of professional misconduct.^[1] After extensively studying Yadin's work documents, transcripts, and conversations, Ben-Yehuda concluded that Yadin conducted "a scheme of distortion which was aimed at providing Israelis with a spurious historical narrative of heroism"

The actual record shows evidence of "different factions of Jews fighting and killing each other, of collective suicide by a group of terrorists and assassins whose "fighting spirit" was questionable.^[1]

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admissions of falsification by Yadin himself

he was pressured by the Israeli government

An invention called 'the Jewish people' By

rejects most of the stories of national-identity formation

It's all fiction and myth that served as an excuse for the establishment of

Israel

majority of the Jews were not exiled