Some interesting comparisons here, but there are a couple of logic flaws.

Firstly, I hate to sound like a post-modern cultural theorist, but you are applying current moral standards to a very different era, when slaughtering one's enemies was quite usual. Parts of the Bible are extremely bloodthirsty, with vast amounts of smiting, slaughtering and exterminating, so there's not much point focusing solely on the Maccabees. (Of course Auschwitz, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur etc show the hypocrisy of our supposed respect for the laws of wars.)

The main difference is, of course, that OBL seeks terror and murder for its own sake. The deaths of thousands of innocent civilians is an end in itself. The Maccabees were fighting for survival.

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