text: Applies to Abraham's SEED.  The Covenant was ratified IN THE FLESH through circumcision.  Isma'el (alayhis-Salaam) was circumcised.  He was a Semite.  The Covenant applies to him and his people.  Begin,  Sharon and their ilk, though circumcised (as are all Muslims and most American Christians), were NOT Semites.  They were European invaders whose people originated in the region of the Black Sea.