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From: matt@brl-tgr.ARPA (Matthew Rosenblatt )
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Subject: Re: 360 Billion Jews Want Israel Today -- or, Standing Room Only
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:24:15 EDT
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> Okay, this is a cheap shot, but I'll take it.
> If there were as many Jews as you say, and if, as was
> claimed in the original posting on this topic, this was
> at the time of a Roman attack, how come we lost?

The Jews at that time were divided into all sorts of warring sects.
There were Baryonim (Zealots), Sadducees, Minim (early Christians),
etc.  With so much dissension, the Jews did the Romans' work for them.

				-- Matt Rosenblatt