globetrotter
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oh, and the other thing is that the real story behind hanuka is that it celebrates victory in a horrible civil war between secular jews and religious jews in hellinistic israel, in which the religious jews actually requested military assistance from rome. if you read the books of the macabees, the stories are horrible, the war was horrible, so nobody really talks about that too much.