Publisher's Synopsis
There is no more fascinating saga than that of the Jews. Uninterrupted for four thousand years, it describes how a people 'diasporised' from their 'promised land' still survive a pernicious world, outliving all civilisations despite constant persecution and a Holocaust killing frenzy more malevolent than the Dark Ages' Barbarian freaks who pillaged Europe after the Romans. But there were heroics as well. At Masada, a few Jews held off more Roman Legions than any other Roman challenger in that empire's military history. A few Jews had the Nazis pulling out all stops in to raze the Warsaw Ghetto. No, contrary to Holocaust belief, the Jews are not a meek people. Small numbers of concentration camp survivors defeated the collective power of seven Arab armies five times in five separate wars. The 'Six Day War' lasted that long because their God, it was said, rested on the seventh day! Most Jews see the hand of God in their epic struggles for survival. With foresight, their God had equipped them with something more powerful than weaponry. Mental flexibility linked to a Jungian 'collective unconscious' is more effective. By far. Victor Hugo said. "There is no greater power than an idea whose time has come." "Tribes: Israel" demonstrates just that.
