What does ancient history have to do with present circumstances? Your story is fascinating, but it only shows how arbitrary our attempts are to correlate our genetic inheritance with our cultural identity. The present, horrific impasse between Israel and its surrounding Palestinian population is largely due, paradoxically, to both sides’ embrace of a tribal deity whom both sides claim is also the One True God. Such a “my way or no way” ideology inevitably results in both sides seeing the other as the enemies of the One True God, worthy only of annihilation. And Christian fundamentalists are no better!