The severity of the massacres was such that word reached Jewish communities in the Middle East, inspiring Messianic fervor.

'Inspiring Messianic fervor' is a curious way to describe the primary response to your people getting massacred. It makes more sense when you realise Jews, having given Jesus a failing grade yet seething at his popularity, were still itching to see the conditions arise for the coming of their Messiah, conditions which include tumult, war and persecution. Look up Jewish eschatology and the war of Gog and Magog mentioned in Ezekiel, which some Jews (and some of the more philosemitical evangelicals) believe is a favourable sign of the end times and will happen in Jerusalem.

On some level Jews become religiously excited about getting victimised. It might explain how some of the most obviously fabricated accounts of stuff like Oct 7 or other events are so exaggerated that it sounds like a prophetic fever dream from scripture. 'And yea, the demons under cloak of invisibility did steal into the promised lands, bewitching the protectors whose golden armour mattered not; killing no less than a dozen hundred and sparing not the innocent babes, wherefore the demons did cut off 40 of their heads; and unto the mothers of the babies, they did sever 80 of their udders even while defiling them also; and in such a manner did the Messiah's arrival grow near.'

The severity of the massacres was such that word reached Jewish communities in the Middle East, inspiring Messianic fervor.

'Inspiring Messianic fervor' is a curious way to describe the primary response to your people getting massacred. It makes more sense when you realise Jews, having given Jesus a failing grade yet seething at his popularity, were still itching to see the conditions arise for the coming of their Messiah, conditions which include tumult, war and persecution. Look up Jewish eschatology and the war of Gog and Magog mentioned in Ezekiel, which some Jews (and some of the more philosemitical evangelicals) believe is a favourable sign of the end times and will happen in Jerusalem.

On some level Jews become religiously excited about getting victimised. It might explain how some of the most obviously fabricated accounts of stuff like Oct 7 or other events is so exaggerated that it sounds like a prophetic fever dream from scripture. 'And yea, the demons under cloak of invisibility did steal into the promised lands, bewitching the protectors whose golden armour mattered not; killing no less than a dozen hundred and sparing not the innocent babes, wherefore the demons did cut off 40 of their heads; and unto the mothers of the babies, they did sever 80 of their udders even while defiling them also; and in such a manner did the Messiah's arrival grow near.'