Actually, those Israelites who were captured and taken as slaves, survived, and returned 70 years later, but because the Babylonians invaded Israel, Babylon was invaded and destroyed, with God’s promise that it will never be rebuilt. I think Sadam had plans once.
The one thing though, is that Israel was invaded by the Babylonians because the only time God didn’t forgive Israel was the time King Manasseh practiced child sacrifice and her streets flowed with innocent blood. But we don’t have to worry about that now, do we? We are not being invaded are we?