Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "Are Jews Indigenous to Israel? | Explained" video.

  1. Yes and no. Palestinians have absorbed a lot of Arabian ancestry along with Islam, and they have a lot of ancestry from further north and east like Anatolia and Iran.
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  2. It is from the political and religious viewpoint of Jews. It ain't necessary so, as the song says. For Europeans, Jews are Ashkenazi and Sephardi, not those from Guyana, Iran, India, Ethiopia. I doubt the Romans made Jews leave whatever you call that place in the Levant. Similarly no one forced Ethiopians to convert, or Jews to move to China. I don't consider non White people to be true Jews just converted ones either way, the original people that lived in the Levant who decided that there is one God without any form are extinct and all the people claiming to be Jews are fakes, adoptees of certain beliefs and customs.
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  3. Well Italian Jews, and other European Jews are essentially Italian like Southern Italians and Sicilian Italians. It's in your dna, it isn't German or Anglo Saxon or Irish or French, and Sephardi Jews are not Spanish or Portuguese, Italian again. Whether your Middle Eastern like ancestry actually came from Middle Easterners or from those Southern Italians can be debated.
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  4. Israelites? You are referring to a bunch of Canaan people who left the plains for the highlands and got rid of the Canaan group of deities for just one. El was one of the deities. Genetically they were much like the Phoenicians. Even the Philistines who were like Mycenaean Greeks intermarried with the Canaan people so much that after 200 years their dna was lost.
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