[redhead]

"If burning the whole country down, breaking out the salt for the fields, deporting a whole mess of them, enslaving tons more, and publicly executing any leaders they could get their hands on (apart from Josephus), wasn't enough."

It's never "enough" for tyrants. They especially want to go after a defeated peoples' religious faith.

[TheAngryClam]

Religion was the reason the Jews revolted.

Not considered a smart thing, you know. They got uppity after overthrowing the Seleucid rule.