Masada, an useful sacrifice?

Once it was broadcast on television a picture whose name is "Masada", it tells about how a group of jews decides, after to having been destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem, fighting against the Roman legions, from an unconquerable place, Masada fortress. But in spite of all that Roman Army could find the way to conquer the fortress.

The said fortress was built in the times of Herod the great, at the shores of Dead Sea, and its objective was to be one unconquerable, but after two years of a hard work, the romna people were ready to conquer the fortress on the top of the rock. But when they entered, they had nobody to fight with, the jews decided immolating themselves instead to be conquered by roman army, who, for sure, would enslave and show them like triumph signal.

Today that fact is used by Israel's Army in a similar way to Oath to Chilean flag on july 10th of each year,when soldiers swear to defend a textile piece with the very life. I think ideals of a country are not flesh in what thing is or is nat a flag, but rather what thing it must be defended is the citizens' lives, democratic institutions, the freedom, and not simply a pice of textile.

The thing I can rescue here is the sentence that the personage Flavius Silva, performed by Peter O'toole, who was the roman gobernor, said in a sarcastic way, of selfcritic towards the thing he was representing, all the power of Roman Empire in Judaea, soon to watch how the jews commited suicide "We have conquered a rock in the middle of a desert in the shores of a poisoned sea" what does it mind all those things