The Delhi to Cairo flights were full every day ...
I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Jews like Rabbi Akiva should not have hailed Simon, so-called Bar Kochba, as a messiah, giving people false hope. the revolt was a continuation of the disastrous first war started in 66 which had led to the destruction of the temple, the deaths and suffering of huge numbers of Jewish people. The second war sealed the Diaspora already begun and was the origin of Palestine. Hebrew Christians could not fight for a false messiah which was a wise choice.
Wrong this was not the second war, it was the third war.
The middle one was the biggest one, one of biggest conflicts in history stretching from Mesopotamia to Libya to the Greek islands. It was called the Kitos War. Probably a million people died on each side.
They had Trajan on the run. Two of his generals in charge of the breadbasket of the empire were going to secede but then Trajan dropped dead because of the stress. They wanted to rebuild the Temple. Hadrian said go ahead and the war stopped.
It’s pretty facile and stupid to make conclusions why a war was lost. The Jews took on an empire three times and they were beat before they started unless others arose either from within or without. No one did. Even so in the third war Hadrian had to bring in troops all the way from Britain and use his sailors to fight on land.
Not as much as the Nineveh, Babylon and Damascus shuttles:) I seem to have missed that Hindi invasion of Egypt and the Levant.