It should surprise no one to learn that the 10 Tribes were murdered off, sold into slavery, died of every disease known and unknown, and were forcibly assimilated and forcibly converted to the prevailing beliefs of their captor nations. That being a high probability, there are some cases known which seem to have more to their claims than mere anecdote. The Pashtun tribesmen of Afghanistan claim to be direct descendants, call themselves Israel, and wear blue and white prayer shawls and fringes. Most of them look just like other Jews, and it is easily believable that they made their way to Southwest Asia and were eventually forced to convert to Islam. There is a community of Jews living off the coast of Libya claiming to be direct descendant Cohanim who spend all their time making Temple items in preparation for their Return. Other remnant groups undoubtedly remain scattered around the globe. That being said, it is difficult to accept that Angles, Saxons, and Celts who worshipped trees, had women priestesses and spoke a language totally unrelated to any Semitic language, are the "long lost Jews". It just doesn't add up. There's not a scintilla of evidence linking them to the Middle East. Same goes for the Teutons, Franks, Schots, Slavs....there is just nothing that link them to Jewish roots. Their religions and cultures are forms despising all things Jewish. The Irish are fond of sitting around inventing stories about how they are the Lost Tribes, and how they have Leprechauns, and how.....this and that....when they're not getting s-itface drunk and beating each other up. Germany as well as Italy weren't even nations until the nineteenth century. Both were nothing but disunited duchies and loose confederations -- and there were Jews living there rooted and settled since Roman times! It only makes sense that Jews rooted in a land for over a thousand years would know if their adapted hosts were in fact their kin! The Italian people today today have no relation whatsoever to the original Romans. The Romans were descendants of the Etruscans, a distinct ethnicity which founded Rome, and who no longer exist. Early in English history King John expelled all the Jews from Britain. That Edict is still Law and still on the books. The act of fellow Jewish Tribesmen? I don't think so. Danes and Norsemen the Lost Tribes? Worshipping Odin and Loki and death and war? Doesn't sound like the Lost Tribes to me. Virtually all the peoples of Europe today are the resettled remnants of the migratory barbarian invasions which followed the Fall of the Roman Empire. Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Jutes, Vikings, Franks, Teutons, Normans, ....these are the peoples of Western Europe today with white skin. Russians are a mixture of Viking migrants and native Slavs. They have no relationship whatsoever with the ancient Jews or any other Semitic peoples. Even the ancient Egyptians were displaced by Berbers and Arabs and other invading peoples. If the Lost Tribes of Israel are prophecised to make a metaphysical and supernatural Return to unite with their remaining brethren in Eretz Yisrael, then I am all for it and I actually believe it. However, scholars from every country in the world have been searching worldwide for evidence "proving" the existence of the Lost 10 Tribes, and ALL of them have come up with little but scant evidence; most of it anecdotal folk legends and the like. Furthermore, most of the investigative research into the 10 Lost Tribes done by Western Christians is based on terribly flawed translations and misinterpretations of the Jewish Scriptures; enabling them to "force fit" their findings to make them "prove" what was untrue from the start. There is a wide chasm between METAPHYSICS and HISTORY. Metaphysics is entirely unprovable and must be accepted and believed based on doctrines and scriptures which themselves bear little in the way of documentable proof. History, on the other hand, is that which can be concluded by the study and analysis of documented and verifiable records compiled by historians, governments, writers from the period, cross references and analysis of other fields of study such as language patterns, cultural changes, etc. .
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