Trying to catch up here. I see that a reactionary trend with this type of information - as compelling as some of it may be - is to dismiss it outright on the assumption that "the US isn't Israel". And considering that authors generally operate on the same premise, well... they end up missing the bigger picture themselves, and thus fail to make convincing arguments.
Ironically the cluelessness serves to magnify and identify the "lost" in "Lost Tribes". The nation representing the House of Joseph is hiding in plain sight but as was foretold, the tribes lost their own identity.
Muslims seem to have an instinct for who both houses are, though.
