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Unfortunately the excerpt of the DVD:

1. does not answer any questions -- it obfuscates

2. does not answer a simple question: why is there no trace of Israeli/Judaic genes in native Americans (if Native Americans are supposedly descendents of Nephites/Lamanites -- a fictional Israeli group) when genetic research shows a distinctive Jewish haplogroup found in Israeli communities from East AFrica to Yemen to India. Furthermore, the native Americans do not even have vaguely Semitic genes to relate them to any Semites.

3. does not answer a simple question: why is there no trace of any Semitic languages in any Native American languges. SEmitic languages have distinctive elements The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence also the term consonantal root). Such abstract consonantal roots are used in the derivation of actual words by adding the vowels and non-root consonants (or "transfixes") which go with a particular morphological category around the root consonants, in an appropriate way, generally following specific patterns. It is a peculiarity of Semitic linguistics that a large majority of these consonantal roots are triliterals (although there are a number of quadriliterals, and in some languages also biliterals). which Native American languages do not

4. does not answer a simple question: why is there no trace of archaeological elements (pottery, weapons, writings, skeletons, city walls, etc.) of Lamanites or Nephites or any Semites in North AMerica. REmember that they are supposed to have come in 600 BC and in 600 BC in the Old World they were using the wheel, which was not yet developed in the Americas -- but no trace of this. There is none of the Old World technology found here, not even in weaponry or agriculture or town-building. In contrast we have a lot of archaeological artifacts of Tolmecs, Olmecs, Toltecs etc. from before 600 BC. We even have traces of nomadic native American tribes (arrow heads etc.) but none that would indicate an advanced BOM-type civilisation or even a 600 BC level Old World civilisation.