So are Ishael's sons. I get the symbolsim, but refer to the right patriarch. Of course, both were mythical. As are the claims to the land. Indeed, Judaism as it was practiced biblically really did not exist until after the exile. By then the legendary northern tribes had not only been exiled to Assyria but moved along to the east to India, where they were converted by Thomas, the twin of Jesus (because of resemblence).