Even then they were a gang of troublemakers.
A Jewish militant group is more like it.

It was the Rabbis who wanted to resolve the war peacefully. Pay taxes to the Romans as long as they could live in Israel and keep Torah and mitsvos.

Jerusalem Jews were wealthy with many YEARS worth of food. They could have long outlasted any Roman siege.

The Biryonim wouldn't tolerate the idea of non-Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem and burnt down the storage houses of food to "force" Jews to fight.

The Biryonim were responsible for immeasurable amounts of Jewish suffering and death long before the Romans laid a single hand on Jerusalem.

2000 years later the great Rav Chaim Zonnenfeld had a liaison named Dr. Yaakov Yisrael Dehaan who was likewise engineering a plan with King Abdulla and other Arab leaders for Jews to live peacefully in Israel and keep Torah and mitsvos.

He was assasinated by the Zionist movement, Haganah.

History repeated itself again when Rabin and his Zionists parties came full circle and they personally began negotiating with the Arabs. Rabin's assassination was, undoubtedly, and measure for measure, payback for Dehan's assassination. Right down to the same number of bullets.