Jesus, the zealot?

Terrorsim in Palestine has a bimillennial history. The zealots, that fighted for the liberation of the Jews from the Roman Empire, were the terrorists of that time. They had a strong commitment to social justice, and were rather integralistic concerning religion, not differently from Hamas.
Although the Gospel states that the Christian message is definitively spiritual ("My kingdom is not of this world" and many other passages), it is obvious that Jesus sympathized for the Zealots, and like the Zealots wanted the Jews to be freed of the Romans. I think that he didn't mix too much with them not for spiritual reasons, but for differences in strategy. The Zealots dreamed of going back to an independet kingdom of Israel, but the Christians warned that it was impossible to concentrate on Israel without considering the broader picture. In other wors, the liberation of Israel was impossible without the destruction of the Rome. The Book of Revelation is just about this (the Beast is the Roman Empire).

Zealots rose up a few years after the death of Christ, but failed and Jerusalem was destroyed in the 70. The Christians wiated longer, but ultimately they conquered Rome in the IVth century. All this is represented in classical paintings of the Nativity, where a broken column or temple is always present, meaning that Jesus destroyed the Ancient World, both spiritually and politically.