I think a lot of the perceived accuracy of your post depends on the understanding of the term "jew". There's a wide range of understandings with different (often exclusive) definitions. I will try to avoid it here to reduce misunderstanding. In fact, the term "jew" seems to have originated from the rebranding the edomites gave themselves. First, a brief history: the united kingdom of Israel broke into the northern kingdom of israel and the southern kingdom of Judah/Judea. Judea and Edom were in a perpetual low-intensity conflict and Edom basically won it by infiltrating the culture and society of Judea. That led to something else I'll mention in a minute. Then the Babylonians went in to conquer Israel and Judea. Of course the Israelites fought and were mostly killed off. Most of Judea did not, because they were really Edomites with no real cultural, social, or patriotic ties to Judea (but they didn't exactly lack religious ties - they had been converted by force and took up a perverted form of judaism aka the jewish religion). The Babylonians took the remaining people into slavery, but it was for the most part the end of the Israelites (that is, the descendants of Israel). Other nations and ethnic groups moved into the population vacuum that remained, but mostly the Edomites just grew and shifted up north through Judea and the former Israel. After Persia conquered Babylon, they quickly got fed up with the "Judean" kvetching and told them to get back to the land they claimed and leave them alone. The "Judeans" (really non-Israelite Edomite displacers) went back and took over the choice land up north in and around Jerusalem. There's a lot more detail in there, like the Babylonians spreading them around the kingdom to integrate them and make them not want to rebel, and them refusing to integrate just like we continue to see through history. Oh and that other thing. King Manasseh of Israel reverted to devil-worship in a huge way. He re-established Baal worship, defiled the temple with the likeness of Asherah, built altars to the stars in front of the temple, and sacrificed his own son to Moloch. As one might expect, God cursed him and with him all of Israel (who followed him into depravity), saying "I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance". In my understanding, that is where the Israelites as we understand them ended, and they were no longer the chosen people of God. Anything left is just a hollow echo or pretending imposters, at least until Christ came to give a measure of mercy.