The tradition says that those Lost Tribes are the Pashtoon & Kasmiris...
DNA studies on Pashtun population of Pakistan indicate that they are from Northern Iranian stock with about 10% of them having Greek markers. They are not a lost tribe of I.
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AFAIK, the only people who are discovered having semitic DNA are Lemba people of the South Africa. They can be considered one of the lost tribes.
In palestine-israel conflict, religion definitely is the source of hate..Especially the traditiinal muslim hatred of "jews" purported by quran and hadiths.
Yes, Quran talks about Jews as law-breakers; but, also tells about their patience and virtuousness and tells that they were sent leaders in succession with scripture and wisdom but in the end most of them were the slaves of theer own desires.
About the current Muslim Jewish conflict involving Palestine, the reason is simple. There were European Jews who were settlers.
By the turn of the 20th century, Jewish consisted only 6% of Palestine's population. After Balfour declaration of 1917, they started to arrive in throngs to Palestine and started to buy land and settle there. The Arabs did notice that and were vocal about that but did not take the arms.
Jews knew that if they tried the democratic methods, they will never be able to make the dream of Israel a reality. So, they resorted to terrorism which included massacres and ethnic cleansing. This led to mass exodus of Palestinians to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Of a total population of 1.3 Million Arabs, between 700,000 to 1 Million Palestinians had to flee. This way, in order to create a so called democratic country, Israelis first had to practice fascist tactics.
The bitterness of the Palestinians definitely have a cause, as they are homeless people now.
On the top of that, there is the dream of a 'Greater Israel' that does not let Israelis calm down and start a peace process.
Yassir Arafat, always sought a policy of moderation, but, Israelis always tried to crush his movement. The 2 state solution of today is in fact his proposition, which, although Israelis accept but only for show. Their actual plans had always been to expand the Israel. You can find the maps of Greater Israel on the web.
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