the jews were vassels of the persions and slaves and told to 'go home' but they were still vassals and they had a chip on their sholder and even when all the other nations around them decided to end the wars, they just couldn't stop trying to be the supreme people.
they couldn't aaccepppt that they weren't 'better than' everyone and saw foreigners as dirty invaders, even though they lived in a place that they had invaded.
and then when the Romans declared peace, they couldn't gie it up, so they burned down herods temple and blamed the rest of the world, and cry babbyyied about it for 2000 years.