[Simon Green]

All those Goths weren't exactly Semitic...

I'm not saying that the Roman Empire would still exist today, just that the absence of Israel wouldn't have prevented its existence in the first place.

[Snickering Hound]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt

Whatever was left of Israel was wiped out 350 years before the collapse of the Western empire.