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[The Sadducees could not execute alleged zealots. Why? They did not hold sovereign power. The Romans did. This explains the political manipulation of the Roman Governor in the execution of Jesus.
In addition, the Pharisees and other elites played a game of shunting dissatisfaction with their own sovereigninfra religion into hatred of their military overlords, the Romans.
They succeeded only too well. Typical of sovereigninfra religions, they were not aware of the consequences of their actions.
The Romans destroyed the city of Jerusalem in 70 AD.
Was the fall of the second temple an exercise in lawessential?]