The Last Stand.(Masada and Israeli national identity) From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: March 10, 2003| Author: Carpenter, Betsy | COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Stand atop the wind-swept plateau known as Masada, and you can almost picture the last desperate hours of the Jewish rebels who retreated there after the Romans burned Jerusalem in A.D. 70. For two years, the freedom fighters harried the Romans from this mountain redoubt near the Dead Sea. But then the 10th Legion constructed huge siege walls around Masada and built a massive earthen ramp up the plateau's western side. The night before the final assault, the Jews faced an awful cho...

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