PA: "If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem" First Said by Crusader

Arutz Sheva ^ | 12/6/11 | Gavriel Queennan

[Eleutheria5]

Continuing its policy of denying Jerusalem's Jewish heritage the Palestinian Authority publicized the claims of an Arab researcher that the well-known ancient Hebrew psalm, "If I forget three, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill," is not Jewish at all, the Israeli research institute Palestininian Media Watch reports.

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Instead, Dr. Hayel Sanduqa insists the words were uttered by a Christian Crusader, and have only recently been "borrowed" by Jews and "falsified in the name of Zionism."

The verse in question, from Psalm 137 of the Hebrew Bible, opens with the words: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The researcher did not inform listeners of that fact.

Psalm 137, which mourns the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE, is part of Jewish tradition and liturgy since then and has appeared in Jewish sources for thousands of years.

The oldest surviving manuscript of the Ketuvim, or 'Writings,' which includes the Hebrew Psalms, is dated between 175–164 BCE. It contains Psalm 137.

[Eleutheria5]

This has to be a Latma TV spoof gone haywire.

[sheik yerbouty]

Bolllocks to TROP presstitutes..

[sheik yerbouty]

Bolllocks to TROP presstitutes..

[RhoTheta]

Psalm 137
An Experience of the Captivity.

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.

Upon the willows in the midst of it
We hung our harps.

For there our captors demanded of us songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
How can we sing the LORD’S song
In a foreign land?

If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
May my right hand forget her skill.

May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
If I do not remember you,
If I do not exalt Jerusalem
Above my chief joy.
Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze it, raze it
To its very foundation.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one
How blessed will be the one who repays you
With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.

- NASB

[HiTech RedNeck]

You’d think the Christian church would claim bragging rights to this, if this absurd claim were true... nope, they don’t.

[RobbyS]

Islam is an ahistorical faith. Almost nothing about Mohammed, or the Koran for that matter, can be verified by resort to non-Islamic sources.

[null and void]

let my right hand forget her cunning

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Oy. These muzzies. They make the stupidest claims.

[docbnj]

“8. O daughter of Babylon, thou art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us.
9: Happy he shall be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock.”

There is much blood, gore, and genocide in the Tanakh. It has made me wonder if the our holy books should be kept away from children: it might make them real interested in reading them.

[ari-freedom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t3MPxKSESI

Im eshkachech Yerushalayim tishkach yemini...
Im lo e’eleh Yerushalayim al rosh simchasi

[RobbyS]

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It’s history.

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Leftists. They just can’t keep their filthy, lying revisionism off our history.

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