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Of course the jews hate the Romans. Romans squashed all of their petty rebellions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11iPrDv8aBE. The Romans slaughtered them and would even siege a city on a mountain and literally build a road up to it and destroy the last holding remnants.
No, the real reason they hate the Romans is because God chose the Romans over them. Like the demons they worship, they have rejected God and yet throw a fit when He shuns them right back and chooses others in their place.
Maybe when the "equivalent cultures" of sub-saharan Africa stop using Roman roads and bridges and build their own, that argument might have some merit.
The Romans didn't make excuses for their conquest.
Their reasons were:
1. We don't trust you
2. We don't like you
3. We want to own every patch of earth where grapes can be cultivated
4. Try and stop us you filthy barbarians
5. Fuck you
Jesus gave them ample warning what was going to happen, they killed Him like they killed the rest of the Prophets who did the same. (Of course, the modern specimens are probably not even even remotely related to those jews so their irritation at Titus doing his job is very confusing).
That's the height of the Roman Empire, I think, after Trajan. The piece reaching the Persian Gulf was their most tenuously held territory. It was too far away to rule properly and the proto-muzzies were a wily bunch. I only remember that because Trajan built some monuments in Mesopotamia during the Parthinian Campaign.
I wanted to say Aurelian but I think Rome had given up on Germania by then and they only held Pannonia.
They had tried to keep control of those distant territories but the campaign ended in utter disaster because the Antonine Plague (measels or smallpox) basically killed all the legions that were sent. That was the last time they tried before pulling borders back to Turkey.