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Billy Thistle's avatar

I think it would be a mistake to equate Ashkenazi Jews w/ Khazaria. Even tho such a linkage distances present day Jewish inhabitants of Israel from Hebraic biblical ancestors, the dna evidence is lacking, primarily because there is no extant Khazar population to match Ashkenazi Jews with.

This is a complex subject, one I've struggled w/ for years , starting w/ my reading of Koestler's 13th Tribe. But Koestler himself admits his argumentation was motivated by a desire to distance the Israeli Zionists from real Jews, left-liberal Jews like himself. Those colonialist thugs were not part of the civilized, peace-seeking, intellectual tradition he was part of. Did such an ideological bias cause him to overstate his case? I believe so and so does Laurent Guyenot. https://www.unz.com/article/lev-gumilev-and-the-khazar-chimera/#a-jewish-coup-in-khazaria

T'would be better to hold the Khazar proposition as an unproven hypothesis. There is surely some admixture to the total Jewish gene polo, but not the overwhelming 90% the Ashkenazim represent. Important to keep in mind: the word Ashkenazi means German not Khazarian.

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It wasn't the last time little adolescent Israel made his barking voice heard in Dallas.

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