How did the Jews lose Israel?

Answer 1

70: The Roman Army destroyed Jerusalem, killed over 1 million Jews, took about 100,000 into slavery and captivity, and scattered many from Palestine to other locations in the Roman Empire.

Circa 115 -117: Jews in Cyprus, Cyrene, Egypt and parts of Mesopotamia revolted against the Roman Empire in what is known as the Kitos War. This caused the death of several hundreds of thousands of Romans and Jews. The Roman Legions eventually crushed the rebellions.

132: Bar Kochba led a hopeless three-year revolt against the Roman Empire. Many Jews had accepted him as the Messiah. About a half-million Jews were killed; thousands were sold into slavery or taken into captivity. The rest were exiled from Palestine and scattered throughout the known world, adding to what is now called the "Diaspora." Judaism was no longer recognized as a legal religion.

135: Serious Roman persecution of the Jews began. They were forbidden, upon pain of death, from practicing circumcision, reading the Torah, eating unleavened bread at Passover, etc. A temple dedicated to the Roman pagan god Jupiter was erected on temple mountain in Jerusalem. A temple of Venus was built on Golgotha, just outside the city.

Basically the Romans expelled them. Jews battled with Romans for quite a while and were perceived as a threat to the Roman Empire. Some remained in Israel and continued to fight, but most spread to many different areas. There has been a consistent Jewish presence in Israel for thousands of years. In fact unified Jerusalem has one of the oldest recorded histories of anywhere in the world. Romans named Palestine after the biblical Phillistines as an insult to Jews. Palestinians are not actually philistines and did not arrive in Israel until the 7th century. Now Jews are denied their rights to all of Israel because they are small minority in the world and Europeans and Arabs have far more power than them. Other countries in the world act in their self-interest which is typically not with a very small population such as the Jewish people. It's hard to get straight answers about Israel because their is so much revisionist history and Propaganda put out by Muslims and some people who dislike Jews, so be careful to double check anything you read.

Answer 2

Around 2500 years ago, the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple and forcibly exiled the remainder of Israel's population to Babylonia. (See: The Destruction)
While the Jews were permitted to return to Israel (Judea) seventy years later, and tens of thousands did so (and rebuilt the Temple), most of them remained in Babylonia, while others began to settle in North Africa, southern Europe, the Crimea, throughout the Near East and elsewhere.

In 68 CE, the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. The Romans did not force the Jews out of Judea in a single expulsion. Rather, the Romans expelled them from Jerusalem only; and the rest of Judea lost its Jews slowly, over a period of centuries, as living there became too harsh. Even then, we have records of Jewish communities who lived in Judea (Palestine) during the entire period of the last two millenia. (See:History of the Jews in Israel)