Reply To: Beni Yishma'el

At the time he was born, there was an existence of rather large settlements and kingdoms. So for argument sack, lets assume that at the time he was born, the entire middle eastern population was only 10,000. What are the chances that those Arabs you see today are descendants of the 10,000 rather than the single newly born Yishmael? One in 10,000? That’s not very great!