Masada, Legendary Jewish Fortress, Israel

[Alexmcgruer3]

Wagner??? The German composer and 960 Jewish suicides??? Really? LOL

[Ochibason]

Very gay music I am gay

[sopranoms]

I understand what you're saying. Are you aware of Hebrew people still using their calendar and alphabet? It's not all about Rome.....

[sopranoms]

I understand what you're saying. Are you aware of Hebrew people still using their calendar and alphabet? It's not all about Rome.....long live Hebrews!

[intrepberkexplorer]

@sopranoms,

I know Israel uses the ancient calendar, now year 5771. Founders of Israel chose Hebrew as their national language, the language of the Torah. Plenty of good reasons for that choice. Since few Israelis spoke Hebrew as their native tongue, everyone started out as equals. With Yiddish the other candidate, Hebrew lettering either way. Clear limits to Roman influence. Of course modern Turkey switched from Arabic to the Latin alphabet, another victory for Rome.

[sopranoms]

So the one who has stronger military is always right? At least this people had courage to stand up. Nazi would win if people didn't stand up for themselves. These people were courages and calling them extrimists is irrational.

[intrepberkexplorer]

Rome conquered a vast number of lands around Europe and the Mediterranean. That's historical fact.. Rome's massive influence exists to the present time in countless ways, both secular and religious. After persecuting Christians, Rome later spread that religion in its 2 major variations. This month is June, probably named for Juno, a Roman goddess. We use a Latin alphabet, originating from Rome.

Masada's defenders were labeled extremists by other Jews at the time. Ironic.

[sopranoms]

Can anyone explain what made Masada fall and was it because there were more Romans then Jews? I know nothing about this part of the history and want to know more.

[intrepberkexplorer]

I suggest you do a search for Masada, with wikipedia providing far more information than I possibly can.

[sopranoms]

@intrepberkexplorer Well, I don't think I will find an answer why Romans won inspite of jewish resistance. Possibly because nobody could win them back then.

[intrepberkexplorer]

The Jewish revolt against Roman rule was defeated, Jerusalem sacked, the Second Temple destroyed (70 CE), before Rome cleaned up tiny pockets of resistance like Masada. Rome had superior military power.  Taking Masada meant little to the Romans after winning the real war. The Jewish extremist sect that held Masada fought for a hopeless cause. These suicide martyrs are Israeli heroes, Masada a symbol of Jewish courage: "Masada Will Not Fall Again" a key slogan.

[LarryAt27N]

Sorry, but the video and narration are both boring, and the music is inappropriate -- not because it was composed by Wagner, but because it bears no relationship to the video. The producer may as well have selected "Old MacDonald Had a Farm".

I applaud the producer's enthusiasm, but caution him to keep his day job.

[SuperKarend]

oh, please, cut the music, this is sick.

[ApostlesoYahwehUnite]

Great video! Thanks for posting it! I love Jesus.

[sneakersusan]

If there is a piece of music in that world that is absolutely inappropriate to Masada or the state of Israel it is a peace of Wagners "Ride of the Walkyres" I fear. You defenitly made a bad choice here. Furthermore I don't know why the facts of Masada should be still disputed. For Rome and the leader of the Legio X Ferentis, Lucius Flavius Silva, it was a must and quite natural to capture Masada. They had never a chance on that hill there.

[intrepberkexplorer]

As I have said before, I used "Ride of the Walkyres" intentionally because it was appropriate music for combat, proven in the film "Apocalypse Now", which I was imitating.

I oppose censorship, and believe Wagner's music, regardless of his views, should stand or fall on its own merits. An Israeli ban on playing Wagner is far more offensive to me than "Ride of the Walkyres". We had blacklisting of artists in the United States because of their political views, an evil period.

[prezence1]

@intrepberkexplorer I applaud your stance on the pairing of this sound piece with the video

[Tomislavv2]

@sneakersusan

The story of Masada is not about chances.The real meaning of Masada is that WE WON because WE are back and Rome is history

[TheEEStudent]

The history of the great revolt is quite amazing. Jews were about 10% of the entire Roman Empire (8-10M Jews out of an empire of about 70M ppl). All what Jews wanted, is to be Allies of Rome, not a "conquered province". But that was too much to ask from Titus, especially since it involved tax relaxations. Had Titus agreed, history would have been quite different.

[dixxjamm]

HAHA, whoever chose Wagner for this clip was either clueless or had a wicked sense of humour....Wagner, who was proven to have some degree of anti-semitic feelings and who was later the favourite Nazi composer ???

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

@dixxjamm look at the uploader answer to another user who wrote the same.

I would say that despite so many conquerers and haters tried to annihilate us, we are still a living nation while all their megalomanic dreams faded away.

[cqagpe]

I never was interested in Masada. When I was there last year I felt the site, now is a special site for me.

[cqagpe]

To be in Masada generates a personal feeling, you need to be there to feel the place. I'm mexican and I Iive 1.1/2 hours from Teotihuacan Piramids. People from all over the world come to see them. people say Teotihuacan Piramids are amazing, great, the energy...are special, etc. I think same way about Masada. p.d. last year israeli friends come to Mexico and they wanted to go FIRST OF ALL to Teotihuacan Piramids... but they never went to Petra before. How can you explain that?

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

@cqagpe because Jordan is still kind of enemy territory for us, that's the explanation.

[Yuval012]

What so great about this site???

i never been there, people allways told me it's beautifull place and many people doing weddies there.

kimda funny, that people from all over the world come to see that and i living only 30 minutes away and i never been there...

[rccars1234567]

it is very cool duh haha jk

[JusticeVSpropaganda]

@Yuval012 go there and you will understand

it is something to feel rather than understand

[50masad]

If you visit dead sea area you will find hundred site like this so there is 100 Masad

[BrooklynNotQueens]

yeah the myth of the mass suicide is just a good pr thing now. the physical evidence at the site in no way supports the myth which is a good thing i think.

[intrepberkexplorer]

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[PAMAJATRU]

I.' ve been tere in 1977............we climbed te mountain at 4-00 rs. in te morning! It was ver , ver impressing!!! Also swimming in te dead sea and te oase Ein Gedi!!!

[seangrie8]

Loved the visit.

[intrepberkexplorer]

The story was told by only one person, Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian who defected to the victorious Romans. There are apparently no other accounts, leading to disputes over what really happened. Lack of Roman records has been explained by military insignificance of the Masada siege, long after Jerusalem had fallen.

[CHAPSTiiKxx]

what did the survivors, the 2 women and five children, do after everyone was dead? how did they get to better land to tell the story? Where did they go? How did they get there? i NEED an answer! tell me pleaaaase!

[nkirshenbaum]

amen! Am Yisrael Chai!

[ELOXALATO]

About the survivors, what happened with them?

[Rhynome]

They would almost definitely have been enslaved; they were left to tell the story.

It was also not a mass suicide, but the Jews/Judeans drew lots, and a number of men had to kill the others; in order to keep sin to a minimum, basically.

[CHAPSTiiKxx]

what did the survivors, the 2 women and five children, do after everyone was dead? how did they get to better land to tell the story? Where did they go? How did they get there? i NEED an answer! tell me pleaaaase!

[ravends21]

yeah your right, only 2 women and 5 children survived

[CHAPSTiiKxx]

what did the survivors, the 2 women and five children, do after everyone was dead? how did they get to better land to tell the story? Where did they go? How did they get there? i NEED an answer! tell me pleaaaase!

[Cinaed42]

CUT the music......"Masada" the TV series has now been released. The one with Peter O'Toole and Barbera Carrera etc.

[egrosz]

"You are right " is for Gambrinus75

[Gambrinus75]

It´s a little bit strange to listen to the "Ride of the Valkyries", composed by the notorious anti-semite Richard Wagner in a movie about Masada...

[intrepberkexplorer]

Yes, indeed; that's my personal message against censorship. I think this composition, as music, is most appropriate for Madada. Others may disagree, and it's an issue that divides Israelis as well.

[egrosz]

The opinions about Wagner's music are divided in generally, but not in conection to Masada.That is absolutelly inadequate to Masada.

[Gambrinus75]

Well, if you consider Wagner in a Masada movie as an act against censorship, why don´t you make a movie about the Warsaw ghetto uprising with the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" as musical background?

Your wannabe political correctness is an insult to the jewish people and their brothers in arms throughout history...

[egrosz]

You are right!

[GilmoreGirlx12]

that place is truly remarkable, but you should know, they all didn't commit suicide, only one man did.

[2shacks1house]

So again we are lied to by the jews so we can see them as super human? Surely you jest, Schlomo!!

[homero220]

todo muy lindo, pero, lo que suena es Wagner?