Historians believe the rebels fled to the desert after the Romans crushed the revolt, hiding out in hillside caves dotted throughout the rugged terrain.Sort of like a second century, Jewish Tora Bora.
We preffer "like partisans after the Nazi invasion". The Romans did turn the Mediteranian red with Jewish blood and there were concurrent pogroms in Alexandria and Cyprus. (Go read Appian)
... We preffer "like partisans after the Nazi invasion". The Romans did turn the Mediteranian red with Jewish blood and there were concurrent pogroms in Alexandria and Cyprus. (Go read Appian) ...A better analogy, surely.