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In a sukkah in Har Nof, Jerusalem Sukkot 2008 the conversation abruptly turned to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. Was I not aware of how misleading the established history of the Warsaw ghetto struggle was? Did I not understand that the role of the Hashomer Hatzairnik Mordechai Anielewicz-led ZOB, Zionists of the left, has been much exaggerated in relation to that the Revisionist ZZW fighters drawn from Betar, the educational youth movement founded by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1923? The Anielewicz group, said the sukkah patriarch, had refused to cooperate with ZZW!