i am of course familiar w/ the warsaw uprising - the jews could have had all the weapons they wanted and it wouldva turned out the same - maybe if they'd had rpgs, artillery and fighter planes they could have turned it around, but again, i don't think any of those are reasonable weapons for john q public to have, and i find it inexplicably bizarre that anyone could feel differnetly on that point.
and speaking of masada (the anniversary of its conclusion was last week), remember how it turned out? exactly the way the nazis wanted it.