manitou, ” The rambam says שחזרה מלכות לישראל יתר ממאתים שנה”
Yes, what about it? How does this support your claim? Yes, after Chanukah there was a brief period of Jewish sovereignty, but so what? That isn’t and can’t be why Golus Yovon ended then, because there was no Jewish sovereignty before Golus Yovon, and yet the Golus only started when Antiochus 4 captured the Beis Hamidosh.