 Anita Shapira considers this " New myth " was necessary not to reject identity with the past and to be able to renounce their common memory . While Israel in the 1980s was under much criticism from myths about the state 's founding , the reception of this idea was mitigated and " this version of Latrun that was destined to blow up the myth that the <unk> was solely in the hands of a group of radicals in the middle of the [ Israeli ] intellectual community " . 
