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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The Druze are actually a later version of Islam than the Shia or Sunni, arising in Egypt in 1017, using genetics to prove mythical ownership to land is a fools errand anyway, you can be fairly certain a fair chunk of jews didn't leave with the diaspora but converted to whatever conversion the Romans allowed, in the fullness of time became orthodox Christians and then Muslims eventually, there's a fair number of Palestinians who's ancestors would have been less than committed Jews a thousand years before
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I was thinking of the Samaritans but yes I do tend to agree with you. I am not a DNA expert though. My post was not attempting to do that, only to explain that Jews descend from the Levant and the historical legitimacy of that claim is very much legit. I did not bring up genetics to show why Jewish right to the land is superior, but that it is not a fairy tale that the Jews of today have a genealogical connection to the levant. Like I said, I am not trying to play genetic olympics here. Given the immense interest on this conflict I have seen many miss characterizations of Jews and often complete total lack of understanding of Jewish history. Jews get called colonizers, white settlers, religious supremacists and everything else under the sun. Somehow people feel entitled to re-write our own history for us.