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AddReply(50799,"To Eric (comment #15)","","","06/27/06","The trouble is you \"read\" the Bible; the Jews study & interpret the Torah.  There is a tremendous difference! Those tribes that for thousands of years  have been lost and integrated with the rest of the nations are just that--\"lost\".  There are millions upon millions of people who have some Jewish blood in them through the millenia, but that, according to Judaism, does NOT make the Jews!");
AddReply(50798,"To  comments above.","","","06/27/06","Firstly, the arab peoples are NOT COUSINS to the Jewish people.  Why, because there have not been any Ishmaelites for about a thousand years. Look it up in the Encyclopedia Judaica. Just as there are no more canaanites, Hitites, or Babylonians,etc., there are no Ishmaelites.  Secondly, the arab nations are a conglomerate of many, many peoples worldwide; whereever these tribes conquered, they were integrated amongst them, by the \"sword\".");
AddReply(50797,"to #19","david","los angeles","06/26/06","the arabs predate abraham. maybe he was the ancestor of some arab tribes but not the arab people in general. by the way, i\'m glad mr. natan-pasko knows that abraham, isaac, and jacob are his ancestors. he\'s obviously not descended from khazarians or other peoples who converted to judaism. ");
AddReply(50796,"To comment #12,B. Kimmel","","","06/26/06","I don\'t know where all you non-historians get your distorted information.  The Jewish people has the most accurate geneological information in the world. There are many Jews who have their roots documented going all the way back to Abraham, Isaac & Jacob.");
AddReply(50795,"A family connection","Natallie Durson","Los Angeles","06/26/06","The writer is proud to mention Abraham, who is also the father of the Arabs.  It is nice to see this acknowledgement of your racial cousins.");
AddReply(50794,"Eph. & Barracuda, you dunce...","Chamishim","USA - saluting pasko","06/26/06","Barracuda you usually have more sense. Gavriel had answered your sad note.\nPasko, I salute you: you managed to stir the \'ephraimites\' out of their odd nooks and crannies. As should be obvious they\'re just another kind of replacement theology, just what we need...");
AddReply(50793,"fine essay but","Isaac","Passaic","06/26/06","Pasko this is beautiful writing w. fine thesis.\nBut hey, fellow Jew, we\'re scholars so you should study more. eg.\nRobert E Lee was a proponent of gradual emancipation & went to an integrated church.\nKarl Marx hated Judaism and his originally JEwish father. And no, marxism was not \"a liberation movement,\" for pete\'s sake.\n\nbut your thesis, intro and closing are excell.");
AddReply(50792,"To Janice #8","Eric","Riverside, CA","06/26/06","You say the northern ten tribes are lost, never to be found again?  Amazing.  Maybe you better read Ezekiel 37.");
AddReply(50791,"To #10","Eric","Riverside, CA","06/26/06","Actually, this belief started in evangelical circles in England long before in the 1800\'s. What do you suppose happened to the dispersed northern 10 tribes?  Surely they did not cease to exist or the word of the L-rd in the prophets is false when He says He led them to live securely in the coastlands and that He would bring them back to their land again and that they would be His people.  Or do you not believe His word in Ezekiel to make the two sticks, Ephraim and Judah, one again? Often, Christians are stronger allies to Israel than a secular Jew, and may be your brothers.");
AddReply(50790,"Than you for the insult","Stephen","Phoenix","06/25/06","All Americans are not as you describe, just as all Israelis are not Jews. Israel was to be designated as the Jewish State and homeland, yet the British Mandate made this nearly impossible. The USA had no such designation and became a haven for most of the cultures and peoples on the planet,including Jews. I am considered a righteous gentile and my neshama is known to be Jewish; I am pursuing conversion, or my \"return\" to Judaism, as I prefer to call it. Also, despite the  political confusion in my country, the USA has often been Israel\'s only ally. Think before you insult me and others again. ");
AddReply(50778,"The Author of Descended forgets","Bernard D Kimmel","Owosso, Michigan USA","06/25/06","At Babylon, the GOD of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob changed what was once a unified people.\n\nWe all come from the same source.\n\nBefore you get to high and mighty you might want to remember why GOD did this.");
AddReply(50782,"#5 Barracuda","Gavriel","Galud","06/25/06","You may doubt what you will, but if memory serves me right, a comprehensive DNA survey of Ashkenazi Jews was done and published several years ago which found a better than 99% match Semitic DNA from those in the Middle East. \nSo unless you have some scientific proof to back up your words, you might want to do some research along these lines. ");
AddReply(50781,"#s 4 and 7 (Paul & Rob)","Gavriel","Galut","06/25/06","Seem to be Christian hand on members of the now deceased, Herbert W. Armstron and his World Church of God. All of this bit with Ephraim and England/USA is a dead give away. Whenever any reader of INN reads such reference, know that they\'re Christians who think that they are of Israel via Ephraim.");
AddReply(50779,"to Barracuda","naphtali","close to Jericho, USA","06/25/06","Look in the mirror - and you don\'t see a Polish, Russian, Hungarian face.  I hope, you\'d never seen the real Ea. European in your life.  When I walk the streets of any major city in Ea. Europe, everyone knows that I am a Jew without asking.  Only American Jews, children of amnesia, do not know it.\nBy the way, there are more than 200 different ethnics in Eastern Europe.  Do you look like any of them?");
AddReply(50788,"To Janice,Denver; to Tom(com.#7)","","","06/25/06","If you think you\'re not a descendant of our forefathers, most likely you are either really not Jewish or you stem from converts and as far as Tom is concerned, you really don\'t know much about Torah and real Yahadut.\nThe ten lost tribes are lost - never to return again.  But, most of the bnei Noach are probably descendants of these lost tribes.  The favorite son of Jacob might have been Joseph but G-D\'s favorite is \"David\", literally meaning \"beloved of G-D\"");
AddReply(50789,"Many others did also!","Rob Hill","Munruben Queensland","06/24/06","Judah is but 1 of the tribes of Israel and also the most loyal to G-d and His country of Israel. However, the genes of the other tribes are still in ALL members of the other tribes. Of these. Ephraim (the tribe and head of the ten Northern tribes) is a most favoured son of G-d. The US IS THAT SON and contains remnants of all your brother tribes! Not many are acceptable to G-d nowadays, but that is their current address except for the majority of Manessah in England and the Commonwealth. G-d is also not happy with Manessah because of their treatment of the Jews during and after WW2.");
AddReply(50787,"machpela","jewish","","06/24/06","please G-d that you can go to machpela \"any time\" you want.");
AddReply(50786,"And the purpose of this preening piece is?","Barracuda","Jericho,  USA","06/23/06","As a descendant of Eastern European Jews I doubt very, very much that the Jews of the Old Testament are my direct ancestors. And if my recollection is correct most of the Jews in Israel today are of Eastern European descent. Mr.Pasko, who usually has some insightful things to say, has written a rather silly and arrogant piece in this instance.");
AddReply(50785,"Suggestion","Paul","USA","06/23/06","Mr. Pasko needs to research the biblical promises made to Joseph and his sons. When an honest exploration is done, it should be clear that the modern-day descendants of Joseph are the American and British-descended peoples.  No other groups of people in recorded history come close to possessing the blessings that were promised to the offspring of Joseph.  The only problem is that they themselves don\'t even know their true identity and roots. Like their ancient relatives, they have forgotten the Source of their blessings and have degenerated into idolatry and wickedness.    ");
AddReply(50784,"Abraham,","Janice","Denver","06/23/06","I think it\'s a good thing to expound on the greatness of one\'s ancestors, without putting down someone elses. (I might find this in Pirket Avod).\n \nAnd as far as Africa; you might check with Anthropolists to see that the Northern Kingdom, Ephraim were your ancestors as well who were scattered through the world; they just forgot who they are.  Be careful not to sound snobish; pride comes before a fall.");
AddReply(50783,"My prayer","Kosher Tiger","","06/23/06","G-d willing we will be able to continue to visit the family burial plot in Hebron.");
AddReply(50780,"Robert E. Lee, et al.","Norman Cohen","Los Angeles, Calif.","06/23/06","If I were a descendant of Robert E. Lee, I would be proud of it.\nThe author shows his arrogant ignorance. As\nfor the Avot, sad to say, most Jews of today would simply say \"That\'s\nnice\". As for Kohen or Levi, sad to say, most Jews of today prefer to ignore it in favor of radical egalitarianism.\n");

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