And if American had joined into helping in ww2 sooner we'd have had more Jewish people today. The USA also flew right over the nazi camps taking pictures, they didn't do anything about it. So, like I say. All countries have a history. Maybe Hussein Obama can change the USA national anthem when he is on the way out. Something to commemorate the ground zero mega mosque?

than Rita singing "Hatikvah" to open the celebration of Israels 50th year of independence. Check it out on YouTube, I think she shattered some windows in the Knesset building.

Choosing the hymn "Jerusalem" as a national sporting anthem is a ridiculous idea. It would politicize sports. This must not be allowed to happen. Jerusalem is the capital city of the State of Israel. No other people can claim political or cultural sovereignty over our capital city. The hymn is a religious song which has been politicized in England since Victorian times. The English Church is already practicing the offence of mal-appropriation of Hebrew Scriptures which they call "The Old Testament" and now the English want to sing about the capital city of Israel at their national and international sporting events!!! My GOD this is outrageous in the modern world. They have been trying to claim sovereignty over our city since the Crusader times. They would be ridiculed and laughed at the world over if they use this hymn. Use your song LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY. That has stood the test of time and will continue to stand in good spirit for sporting events.

the hymn (which is a paean to England as the "New Jerusalem") was set to music by Hubert Parry in 1916, but William Blake (who was of course long dead by then) penned the work in 1804.