From Haman to Hamas - By Stuart Halpern

[Richard D]

2. Psalm 137 . . .

. . . which is about the Babylonian Exile has been speaking to me. I don't really like the last two lines, but am including them for accuracy. I cannot read the first part without hearing The Melodians singing it:

Psalm 137

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps.
For there they that led us captive required of us words of song, and our tormentors [required of us] mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning].
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it], even to the foundation thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

this was written around 587 BCE. Our people have been Zionists for over 2600 years.