Blind to themselves.

I just watched part 1 and towards the end there's a scene of the Romans driving Jews off their land and moving into their houses. There are shots of Jews asking God why he allows it and an old Jew confronting a Roman soldier over his evil ways.
Yet when this show was being filmed the Israelis were doing that exact thing to the Palestinians and had been for decades. It's like the irony was completely lost on the makers of the series.

The Jews took the land from whoever lived their first, then got the boot by the Romans and now are taking it from the Arabs. Why does the series show it completely as a Jewish story, with even shots of the Israeli army at the start? Are we just supposed to be on their side and that's it?

Anyway it is an entertaining story and enjoyable. But if they're so heavy with the symbolism of combining ancient and modern you'd think they'd get the irony when it comes to people being driven from their homes.