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Israelite

1. Bible a member of the ethnic group claiming descent from Jacob; a Hebrew
2. Bible a citizen of the kingdom of Israel (922 to 721bc) as opposed to Judah
3. a member of any of various Christian sects who regard themselves as God's chosen people
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"As you spoke a while ago of the passage of the Israelites and of the catastrophe to the Egyptians, I will ask whether you have met with the traces under the water of this great historical fact?"
Now, whether this passage were miraculous or not, the Israelites, nevertheless, crossed there to reach the Promised Land, and Pharaoh's army perished precisely on that spot; and I think that excavations made in the middle of the sand would bring to light a large number of arms and instruments of Egyptian origin."
Israel's most feared neighbor was the Philistines, who can make iron weapons, while the Israelites had bronze, which was not that deadly.
Unbelievably, Israelites are real good in business.
"Alerted to a prophecy that the Israelites would be led to freedom by a boy yet to be born, the dopy pharaoh orders all newborn boys be cast into the Nile," Trump continues.
When a sympathetic mayor of Dimona offered the African Hebrew Israelites the chance to move into an abandoned former immigrant absorption center in the late 1970s, the complex was in such disrepair that some members of the community wondered whether their leader, the Chicago-born Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, was making the right decision.
We should also keep in mind that how Israelites entered into Palestine, and what is their current status at the moment.
They were indigenous-rights activists from Michigan, Catholic schoolboys from Kentucky -- some wearing Make America Great Again hats -- and Hebrew Israelites from the nation's capital.
The Ark, with two stone tablets listing the Ten Commandments, was built by the Israelites as they conquered the Holy Land.
There might be Biblical basis for it, this time in the Old Testament's Exodus, the Departure of Israelites from Egypt.
The organizers named the protest Jericho March to imitate the siege of the city of Jericho in the Old Testament book of Joshua, one of the greatest events in the Israelites' conquest of Canaan.
TO me the present day problems facing those in the Holy Land can only be resolved by restoring the 12 tribal areas as provinces and for the Israelis and Palestinians to give up claiming sole rights to some or all of them and to agree to co-exist as Israelites, as they once did.
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