are just some of the similarities during time of great stress.The 'Stern gang' was just a modern example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicarii

Sicarii (Latin plural form of Sicarius "dagger-man"; in Modern Hebrew rendered siqariqim סיקריקים) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to an extremist splinter group^[1] of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from the Roman province of Judea.^[2] The Sicarii carried sicae, or small daggers, concealed in their cloaks, hence their name.^[3] At public gatherings, they pulled out these daggers to attack Romans or Roman sympathizers, blending into the crowd after the deed to escape detection.

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According to Josephus's 'Jewish Wars', the Masada jews were betting on divine intervention by yahweh to send angelic legions to smash the romans besieging the masada fortress. From the ISIS paris attack communique:"...In a holy attack made possible through Allah, a group of believers and soldiers of the Caliphate, from the Caliphate – blessed with power and triumph be it through Allah – targeted the capital of abominations and perversion.."