When Israel was taken into exile by the Babylonians, it wasn't a random invasion. The Babylonians invaded everybody they could and then scattered them all over their empire to erase competing cultures. and to supplant the native cultures with their own. The same thing happened when Judea was decimated by Rome in AD70. Rome laid waste to Judea and then scattered the remaining Jew throughout the Roman Empire to try and extinguish their culture (it never works, though, because Israel are Yahweh's chosen).

Today, the US is actually doing this to ourselves.