Who are Israelites?

ALMOST everyone who reads the Holy Bible will agree that it was written by, to, and about Israelites.  Isn’t it surprising then, to realize that the race that reads, prints, and distributes the Holy Bible, and claims it as its divinely-inspired religious book, is not the Jews, who most ministers insist are the Israelites, but is instead the people of Europe (and as they have spread to America, Australia, New Zealand, etc)?  Is it possible the Jews are not Israelites after all, but that instead you folks, whose ancestors came from Europe are the true descendants of the Israelites?  What a different picture that would make of the Bible, of current history, and prophecy!