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Sorry but only people who know nothing about Psalms / Torah etc could take something like Psalm 137 and turn it into an upbeat pop song and then others sing and dance along to it for decades.

Let's read the full Psalm and then see if this should be turned into an upbeat pop song.

1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion (Jerusalem).
4. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

The first 4 verses alone are enough to not be an upbeat pop song.

5. If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning].
6. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
The psalm then ends with prophetic predictions of violent revenge for what the Babylonians did to the Jews in Jerusalem.
7. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

That last line is about the Babylonians who destroyed Jerusalem and bashed little Jewish children’s heads in with and on rocks.

Great pop song hey?

Those damn brutal IDF soldiers again making "Palestinian" Arab children's lives hard as usual!!!

This is Yogev Klein, he is the owner of a bunch of holiday bungalows called "Among the palms" and during the recent operation in Gaza, which saw over 1100 rockets and mortars fired at Israel, he let 10 families from the Gaza vicinity stay in the bungalows for free just to get away from the chaos a bit.

This is the true Israeli!

Kol HaKavod Yogev!

This IDF combat soldier wrote the following:

"For a whole year I have been waiting for this moment! This angelic woman simply refused to be photographed. Every time I say maybe this time it will happen. I tried several times and it didn't work. For a whole year every day she ran with a cart collecting pastries, sandwiches and treats from random people and distributed it all to IDF combat soldiers quietly and modestly as if they were her own children. Well she finally agreed this time and so I took a picture of her to show you all that she is truly an angel and deserves everyone to bless her."

Amazing stuff! Bless this woman!!

I found Alice Cohen's video that she made and posted on social media blessing and inviting Bibi Netanyahu to her birthday celebration. The video got to Bibi and he arrived to it.

In the video she says how she blesses him daily and that her and her whole family are Likud voters and that she wants to bless him like he is her son.

This is related to this post above: https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/8866

Today is the Jewish holiday of Tu B'Av (literally the 15th of the Jewish month of Av).

This is how a Jewish Yemenite man surprised his wife by buying her a gift while their grandson filmed it.

According to the Mishna, Tu B'Av was a joyous holiday in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the grape harvest. On Yom Kippur and Tu B'Av, the unmarried girls of Jerusalem dressed in white garments and went out to dance in the vineyards. The Talmud states that there were no holy days as happy for the Jews as Tu B'Av and Yom Kippur. Which is why if you come to a Mizrachi synagogue on Yom Kippur, it is an uplifting spiritual experience that appears like a celebration.

I totally missed this one from Jerusalem Day back in May and it is never too late to show a great moment.

This is Jewish woman was surrounded by a group of young girls celebrating around her on Jerusalem Day after they saw her sitting there holding a flag. They brought much joy to her.

This is a very powerful message by Rabbi David Bar-Hayim relating to Tisha B'Av but about Jewish survival.

This week marks 17 years since one of the worst tragedies in Israeli history occurred, one that still has a massive negative affect on the Israeli security situation as well as on the many people it directly affected and those that it now indirectly affects. The disengagement from Gaza took place whereby over 8000 Jews were forced to leave their homes in ruins only to be taken over by blood thirsty terrorists in Gaza.

See the videos and pic below this post.

I included one of the most iconic videos and songs that will bring a grown man to tears as the very last group of Jewish girls who were the last to leave Gaza and before they left they let everyone know how they felt by singing their hearts out for hours in the Beit Knesset to the prayer of Tefila LeAni. See the full documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMYz0spNfhY

I included a pic of Yelena Bosinova z"l.....just before the disengagement she became the first Israeli to burn herself to death in protest...the protest was against the disengagement of Gaza. She was a right-wing activist who wrote on Russian websites expressing her concern that the disengagement would bring disaster to Israel and boy was she right. She was also an engineer and a physicist. Even though I do not agree with her choice of protest, may her memory be a blessing!

In addition I include a very sad song by Narkis who was born in Gush Katif and who was forced out too. It caused her and her husband to divorce. She slightly changed the words to the poem "Im Nin'alu" and then added her own words in the rest of the song. The people in the video are some who were kicked out of their homes.

The scars of those people still hurt to this day and that isn't an exaggeration. A large amount of the families have broken homes now, parents divorced, many still homeless and live in shelters in Ashdod and other places. None of the left wingers in Tel Aviv or anywhere else in Israel gave a crap and do not give a crap today for what they protested so strongly for. I pray we never see such an awful moment again.

May all of those who were exiled from their homes, only to be replaced with savage terrorists, find their peace and prosper and may we return to all parts of our land.

Some additional information about the disengagement which is interesting.

On the 7th August 2005, Bibi Netanyahu resigned from the Likud just prior to the cabinet ratification of the first phase of the disengagement plan. Netanyahu blamed the Israeli government for moving "blindly along" with the disengagement by not taking into account the expected upsurge in terrorism and boy was he right too.

On the 10th August 2005, in his first speech before the Knesset following his resignation, Netanyahu spoke of the necessity for Knesset members to oppose the proposed disengagement.
"Only we in the Knesset are able to stop this evil. Everything that the Knesset has decided, it is also capable of changing. I am calling on all those who grasp the danger: Gather strength and do the right thing. I don't know if the entire move can be stopped, but it still might be stopped in its initial stages. [Don't] give [the Palestinians] guns, don't give them rockets, don't give them a sea port, and don't give them a huge base for terror."