Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service: IDF chief: Druze officers are this generation's Maccabees
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Title: Where are the JEWISH Maccabees? Name: Moshe City: State:
The Druse may be good soldiers, but if Israel is going to be a Jewish state, it will have to be Jewish soldiers who make it happen. Actually, there are many Jews who could be modern day Maccabees. They`re often found on hilltops in Judea and Samaria trying to take possession of Eretz Israel for the Jewish people. But like the Maccabees of old, they`ll first have to defeat the God-denying assimilationists before they can deal with the nation`s foreign enemies.