Reply To: MODERN ORTHODOXY: The Fundamental problems

Mentsch, Rmabam also says at the beginning of Hilchot Chanuka that it was the beginning of 200 years of national independence. For that matter, many of the days on which Megillat Taanit says it was prohibited to fast were commemorations of Hasmonean military victories. This despite the fact that after the first generation they became Tzaddukim.