Reply To: Could Chanukah happen again

Comlink, taxation was one of the reasons cited for the revolt, maybe not a stand alone, or trigger of milchems mitvah, but beyond benign taxation, and territorial threat lies the need to define what is ezras yisrael mitzar haba aleihem, and would a non halacha sanctioned malchut (government for example) have a mitzva to act. We still have at least part of the mitzva of bet din based government, which today is oppressed by the PTB, this alone is reason for a mini chanuka, but with the fifty year forecast, that could be moot, unless threatened from without.