Sunday, March 13, 2011

The essence of the so-called Middle-East problem is this: The people who gave Palestine to the European Jews were giving away something they did not rightfully own. From the British and their 1917 Balfour Declaration, to the UN and its 1948 Partition Agreement—to which no Arab agreed—it was a case of Europeans giving away a part of Asia. This is morally the same as if I paid my bills with your money.
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Those who attempt to assert a Jewish claim of prior ownership of the land are basing their position on a myth: The concept that European Jews are descended from ancient Hebrews. Unfortunately for them, the modern scientific analysis of DNA conclusively disproves that claim. Jewish Europeans are Slavic people, and their origins lie in Russia and Eastern Europe. No genetic connection between Jewish Europeans and ancient Hebrews can be scientifically established.
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History says that 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel disappeared after the Babylonian captivity. We also know that after the Diaspora approximately 80% of the Hebrew population never left western Arabia. Most who did leave went to North Africa, Ethiopia, and Mesopotamia (now Iran and Iraq). Those whom history calls the “missing Hebrews” were reabsorbed into the modern-day Middle-Eastern peoples—Arabs, Persians, etc. These peoples, especially the Arabs, are the ones who have a valid claim to the land.
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All the rest is myth and legend.

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