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To: Neocon who wrote (194512)	10/23/2001 7:16:16 AM
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I'm sure you've read about the anti-Israeli Semites who have been saying "don't blame us, the Jews did it". Well, unwittingly, they may have a point. Stranger than fiction: Taliban may have origin in ancient tribe of Israel Anthropologist finds many similarities Frank Viviano, Chronicle Staff Writer Jerusalem -- Preoccupied with their own terrorist war at home, Israelis have paid less attention than the rest of the world to the campaign against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. Just as well, says an Israeli anthropologist -- because the Taliban might have had Jewish origins. According to Shalva Weil, there is considerable body of evidence suggesting that the Pathan ethnic group, from which most of the Taliban are drawn, is one of the fabled "10 lost tribes" of ancient Israel. Indeed, as recently as half a century ago, Pathan tribesmen themselves claimed that they were descended from wandering Jews. Writing in the weekly magazine "Jerusalem Report," Weil cites a report delivered to Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi in the 1950s, based on the encounter of a Jewish traveler with Pathan nomads.... sfgate.com