The "topic" is who or what is Israel. Israel in today's news construct is a place which denotes the "land of Israel", in which Israel is a person. "Israel" in the concept of genealogical personage, is a person in the form of Jacob, and his sons, in the form of Joseph and Ephraim, and in the sense of the genealogical offspring of Ephraim, and in the biblical history, applies to the 10 northern tribes, which are "scattered among the nations" (Ez 36), and would include multiple nations. As for the term "house of Israel" (Jer 31:31), in the biblical sense, that would include all 10 northern tribes which split off from the "house of Judah", which includes Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. As per Esau/Edom, he sold off his soul for a bowl of red bean soup, and per the biblical narrative is hated by the LORD, and whose genealogical offspring, will be destroyed, barring all the women and children. As for Esau, who was named "Edom" per the biblical narrative, because he ate the red bean soup at a price, his land would be "Edom" which is the home of Petra, the home of the Arab tribe from which some supposed character called Mohammad rose. Petra was the home of the Arab worldwide traders known as the Nabatean, and the home of the Arab Kabba and black stone until the Muslim year 70. While Abraham threw out Ishmael and Hagar, for Ishmael taunting Isaac, Abraham simply gave Haggar food and water near Jerusalem and told her to leave, and did not take her to some unknown barren wilderness, now known as Mecca, where supposedly Abraham built a altar to the LORD. Abraham built an altar in the area of Jerusalem. Many people, including non-Arabs, Persians, have become Muslims, which would include some genealogical offspring of Ishmael, but Ishmael wasn't hated by the LORD. As for how Mecca came into the picture, the story is best laid out by the archeologist, Dan Gibson, on his pod cast "Absolute History". The term "Islam" was not in the Muslim narrative until after the 2nd Arab war and the building of the dome of the rock by Abd al. The term Mecca was not in the Muslim literature until much later. The term in the "Koran", a book sourced from "Christian", Jewish, and Persian material, was Makkah, a term close to Bakkah/Becca/Bacca, which is the "forbidden area", and area noted in the Koran as the place of no killing, which is marked out in Petra, to this day, by large cubic stones. The script for denoting Makkah is indistinguishable from that of Bakka, from the viewpoint of a novice. Bacca could be easily changed to Makka to erase the Abbasids (Arabs of Petra) from the Islamic history, by the Umayyads (Arabs of Kufa (Persia)) after the 2nd Arab civil war. A bubbling Islamic civil war is now going on between the Sunnis and the Shia. As for the Islamic narrative, there is one true Koran kept in heaven. According to reality, there are around 100 different Korans, with multiple discrepancies. According to the Islamic narrative, everything was burned shortly after the death of some fictious "Mohammad", murder by a disgruntled woman, where upon there was a production of around 7 to 9 copies, made from memory, which were sent to all the Arab provinces, which have all disappeared, apparently because of the miraculous appearance of a genealogical offspring of Genghis Khan. The story of the Ishmaelites being born out of the mythical Mecca is pure myth. As for the writings of the false prophet Paul, they hold the same degree of awe as the writings of the illusional Mohammad.