I run lots of DNA tests using DNA samples from Palestinians (Muslims and Christians), Samaritans and Jews and I compare them to ancient DNA samples unearthed in Israel/Palestine. I also match them to history of the land as per historical accounts of demography. In my findings, the vast majority of the ancestry of Palestinians and Samaritans is Canaanite in origin. Samaritans are known Israelite descendants which means the Israelites were likely a Canaanite group because Samaritan DNA has been found to be Canaanite. Matching all of this DNA data to the history when most of the Jews were killed or exiled, many did stay and they nearly all converted to Christianity or Islam at some point. Many Samaritans stayed too after the Assyrian destruction. There were Pagans in the land also since ancient times, they were worshippers of the Canaanite God Ba’al and they stayed and they were descendants of Israelites and earlier Canaanites. Most of these Jews, Samaritans and Pagans that had stayed in the land and had not been killed or exiled, had converted to Christianity by the Byzantine era, but some remained Jewish, Samaritan and Pagan as minorities. Upon the Muslim eras (Arabian, Mamluk, Ottoman), most of those that became Christians at some point converted to Islam along with most of the remaining Samaritans and nearly all of the rest of the Jews and Pagans. Some Christians did not want to convert and were either killed or left (but it was only some, not most as Tsvi has portrayed in this video, historical records show this). However, the majority of Christians did become Muslim. Only a minority of Christians and Samaritans remained until today and a handful of Jews at the time of the start of Jewish immigration into Historical Palestine in the late 1800’s. Palestinians are a native indigenous people of the land of Israel/Palestine, DNA and history dictates this and matches perfectly.
How do the Judean tribes figure into this narrative? Only referring to Israelites is incomplete. Also and more importantly Ashkenazi Jews have a very high ad mixture of Middle Eastern haplotype markers, so they’re de facto indigenous to Canaan, same as every other Semite
@@arayterJudeans figure into the story that they were one of the Israelite groups to remain in the land after the Roman period of expulsion and death of many ancient jews. Most of them that stayed had converted to Christianity by the 12th century. The other two peoples in the land were Samaritans and Israelite Pagans (of both Hebrew and the original Canaanite origin) that worshipped the Canaanite god Ba’al. These other two peoples would also convert to Christianity. Then this Christian population of Jewish, Samaritan and Pagan origin converted to Islam by the Ottoman period. Palestinians are the descendants of Israelites and Canaanites. Ashkenazis, are a mixture of Judean and European ancestry. Modern Jews, Samaritans and Palestinians are all one family by blood. 🩸
@@NubiansNapata There are NO converts from Europe. Jews are not Europeans. *Ashkenazi Jews?* Jews which spent the Diaspora in Europe are the descendants of the ancient Jews brought into Europe by the Romans, mixed with the Babylonian Jews invited into France by Charlemagne and his son from the 800s to 1000s. It was illegal to convert to become a Jew for most of the 2000 years the Jews were in Europe and the 1400+ years in the Arab Muslim world. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews still show 50% of ancient Canaanite DNA even after 2500+ years of diaspora. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews are the Closest genetic match to the Palestinians out of All the diaspora Jewish communities. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews match the Other Diaspora Jewish communities (Sephardi, Italkim, Mizrahi, Romaniote and others), then match non-Jewish Levantines, the Druze, Lebanese and Palestinians. ▪︎Ashkenazi Jews at 70%, and Palestinians (those living in the land for generations, not the Muslim refugees and Arab Levantine laborers that came into the land in the 1900s) at 82% share the same Y-chromosomes. meaning they came from the same ancient Levantine population. ▪︎ *Ashkenazi Jews Can be Identified at 100% Accuracy (from Europeans) by DNA Tests* if you search this with the _National Vanguard,_ you will find the article about the genetic study, *_"A genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans"_* which shows that Ashkenazi Jews Can ve Told From Europeans at 100% Accuracy by DNA Tests, even those with just one Jewish parent or grandparent.
The fact that religion in the Levant as well as elsewhere has always been predicated on the condition of "accept or get out" means that people for millenniums been practicing religious doctrine falsification for the sake of home and family survival. What this furthermore means, is that through time, we the people, who are so seemingly divided are really factually one and are by blood, truly United.
@@GenerousVoyager But actually, Judaism is still much like the others,. They may not ask or force into conversion but they do bring a Bulldozer and destroy the whole village and all the homes within. So not really fifferent, right!?
@@GenerousVoyager That's the way I see it. Judaism always seemed to be more of a national identity rather than a religion. They're not trying to make the whole world "Jews" the way Christians and Muslims are trying to take over the world.
The residents of Kfar Yata in the south of Mount Hebron have Jewish roots. The same is true in the village of Samoa-Eshtamoa, where the Muslims preserved the structure of the synagogue in the center of the village. There is also a Bedouin tribe not far from there that openly declares its Jewish roots. During the Muslim occupation, the Jews there were forced to convert to Islam and thus were allowed to remain on their land to this day.
Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Then Did Christ Come Down A Few Times Before The Gospel? As These Religions Later Added The Trinity Akin To Christianity, Well Before The Gospel? Egyptians Greek Romans Hindu's Zoroastrian's Buddhist's Are You Aware That Constantine Added The Trinity In 325 AD Treaty Of Nicaea. The Greek Zeus Son Of God, Became Jesus Son Of God. The Roman Triad Of Juno, Jupiter & Minerva, Became Father, Son & Holy Ghost. Even Our Months, Star Signs And Planets, Are All Named After Greek & Roman Deities.
Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. If The Muslim's Forced Conversion Of Jews & Christians, Then How Come There Are Still Lots Of Jews, Christians And Hindu's Left On The Planet?
Historically, male circumcision was practised among ancient Semitic people including Egyptians and those of Jewish faith, with the earliest records depicting circumcision on Egyptian temple and wall paintings dating from around 2300 BC
@@NubiansNapata"among ancient Semitic people including Egyptians " what I mean is semitic people and egyptians not egyptians as semite but also practice circumcision
There’s a case for all Palestinians. Palestinians as a whole are the descendants of Israelites and Canaanites that stayed and converted religion like everyone else in the region did, becoming Christians first then Muslim and adopting Arab identity and language. This same phenomenon happened to the native peoples of the whole region, from Syria to Egypt. It happened to Palestinians just the same. Yata has more memory of it because they were among the last Jews to convert in the Ottoman period so it’s still remembered because it was just a couple hundred years ago. But Palestinian ancestors that converted in the Roman or Byzantine era or Middle Ages will likely not still have the memory of it because so much time has past. Palestinians are indigenous peoples to Israel/Palestine and it’s in the historical record. Palestinians, Jews and Samaritans are all related by blood 🩸 and are one family.
In Western literature, al-Hakim is called the "Mad Caliph".[42][43][44] This title was due in large part to his erratic and oppressive behavior towards the religious minorities under his command, as recounted by historian Hunt Janin: al-Hakim was "known as the 'Mad Caliph' for his many cruelties and eccentricities";[45] his persecution of Christians are seen as a contributing factor to the Crusades, as he not only banned pilgrimages to the Holy Land but also ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem in 1009. The church was rebuilt by his son and successor, azh-Zahir, with historian Michael Bonner showing that the term was also used because of the dramatic differences between al-Hakim and his predecessors and successors and also shows that this kind of persecution was very rare in Islam in this era. Historian Michael Bonner notes, "In his capital, Cairo, this unbalanced (and, in the view of most, insane) caliph raged primarily against Christians.... On the whole, such things remained the exception, as "[46] Historian Michael Foss also notes this discrepancy: "For more than three hundred and fifty years, from the time Caliph Umar bin Khattab made an agreement with Patriarch Sofronius until 1009, but the Caliph was insane, al-Hakim began attacks on Christians and Jews in the city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land which were open to the West, with an easy response and a path no more dangerous than the journey from Paris to Rome.... Soon [after al-Hakim's time] the panic ended . In 1037 al-Mustanshir would reach a peace agreement with Emperor Mikhaēl IV."[47] As noted by a leading journal, al-Hakim is of more interest to modern historians than any other member of the Fatimid dynasty because: "His eccentric character, the inconsistencies and radical changes in his behavior and policies, his extremely violent personal life, his vindictive and cruel attitude in dealing with the highest officials in his government, coupled with an obsession with suppressing all signs of corruption and immorality in public life, his efforts to exterminate Christians and called for the systematic destruction of all Christian holy places in the Middle East culminating in the destruction of the most sacred Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, its apotheosis by a group of extremist Isma'ili missionaries who became the forerunners of the founding of the Druze religion, [which] all aspects of his reign stood in stark contrast to those of his predecessors and successors and indeed, indeed, of any Muslim ruler.... The question is to what extent his behavior can be explained as rationally motivated and conditioned by circumstances, and not as the work of an unhinged mad mind. understandable?"[48] The claim that al-Hakim was crazy and the version of events surrounding him were dismissed as mere propaganda by some scholars, such as Willi Frischaue, who stated: "His enemies called him the 'Mad Caliph' but he enhanced the reputation of Cairo as its center." civilization."[4] The writings of historian Heinz Halm attempt to dispel "those distorted and hostile accounts, which suggest that the anti-Fatimid tradition tried to make this caliph into a real monster.",[5] while PJ Vatikiotis wrote that, "the persecution [al-Hakim] against Christians and Jews and the laws enacted for that purpose between 1004 and 1020 appear to have been policies with justifiable aims."[49]
It would be interesting if Corey Gil Schuster goes to this area and does his ask project about their ancestry, especially about the gentleman who says the land belongs to Israel 🇮🇱
@@tagbarzeev8283 My friend, how are you and your family doing? I sent another message, but RU-vid had me on a hold status, and none of my messages were posted.
@@CrazyBenlols13Palestine has never been a state. Could be in the future but it’s always been a mandate or protectorate, so your statement doesn’t make sense
The same thing happened in Sicily in the early 13th century when Frederick II forcibly migrated the Muslims. Many Muslims became publicly Catholics but remained Muslims in the privacy of their homes and retained Islamic customs.
In Sicily local people were converting to Islam too, but the Muslims were removed at some point. In Spain and Portugal, most Muslims were actually local people that had converted and many of them were exiled to Morocco while many had converted back to Christianity. In Palestine, the native peoples of the land that were not exiled or killed and stayed had converted to Christianity first, then Islam like the rest of the region did, from Syria to Egypt. Palestinians are natives of the land.
Yeah, what you said about Palestine is how I understand it. I am more interested, though, in your haplotype research. Have you studied extensively Sicilians? When Frederick II forcibly migrated the Muslims, they were taken to Lucera. About 80 years later, they were sold into slavery. Do you know if they went to a specific location or were spread throughout the Mediterranean? Do modern Sicilians show more genetic similarity to Arabs or northern Europeans?
This I believe. Live in dearborn michigan used to live in ypsilanti michigan know thousands of Palestinians//on dna tests all their dna says canaanite or southern levant or mizrahi jewish...lebnanese too...the rest of the arabs they may have some but not nearly as much.
Muslim all over the world circumcise within a week of birth , most latest 4 weeks. The Prophet Muhammad recommended performing circumcision at an early age. During the time of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) circumcision was done for male children at the time of their Aqiqah (conventional celebration for the birth of a child which involves the sacrifice of an animal in greatness to Allah). The Prophet (pbuh) performed the Aqiqah of al-Hasan and al-Hussein (the prophet’s grand- sons) and circumcised them on the seventh day as narrated in al-Bayhaqi and Tabarani. If it is essential, circumcision can be delayed due to medical reasons. Our annual audits showed that ideal age of newborn circumcision is under 4 weeks old age
After the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD, many Jews were killed, enslaved, or scattered across the Roman Empire. Why are the palestinians did not exist back then and fought the roman empire?
@@blackberrilandas a palestinian i totally agree but I'm amazed that ppl from abroad know this ! Then how come all people from outside palestine say we are Arabs and have no right to the land! And that it is only for jews!! Actually, ever if we were Arabs, which most of us are NOT, that doesn't give modern day jews the right to displace us and massacre us!
The Palestinians are not European settlers, of course they have Jewish origin. Not only that, but also Philistine (Greek) and Canaanite origin. That's why they're indigenous to the land. I don't know what's so surprising about this guy that he somehow an important figure. He's not some scholar like Shlomo Sand. Go read Sand's book.
@@arayter Ashkenazi mtDNA is 80% European.. y Haplogroup is around 50% middle Eastern.. y haplotype or mtDNA is only 1% of your complete genome sequence..
Maybe we're all descended from Mizrahim like from pre-historic pre-biblical times, seems plausible to me if you go back far enough (but you have to believe in evolution to go pre-biblical lol)
Judaism is a Religion not a genetic race. White Jews are European, Ethiopian Jews are African and yes some mizrahim Jews are Palestinian and indigenous to Israel/Palestine same as their Druze Samaritan Muslim and Christian brothers.
@airhabairhab Judaism is a religion, but being jewish is an ethnicity, not all jews are religious and some are atheists , and some are also Christians, jews are ethnic group originated in the middle east , if a jew converts he will remain jewish, jews are descendents of levantine jews who were kicked out of their homeland by romans , European jews exist for less than 1000 years , their dna is 50-60% middle eastern , and 40-50% European, making them non Europeans or indigenous, mizrahi jews are jews who remained in the middle east , they are the closest genetically and culturally to palestinians and other levantines
Israel literally imports people form around the world, recognizing them as descendants of Jews. Meanwhile, Palestinians live under the noses but they're regarded as "foreign" even as their DNA and customs match those of the ancient Canaanites.
@@michaelsmullen9891 Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Then Did Christ Come Down A Few Times Before The Gospel? As These Religions Later Added The Trinity Akin To Christianity, Well Before The Gospel? Egyptians Greek Romans Hindu's Zoroastrian's Buddhist's Are You Aware That Constantine Added The Trinity In 325 AD Treaty Of Nicaea. The Greek Zeus Son Of God, Became Jesus Son Of God. The Roman Triad Of Juno, Jupiter & Minerva, Became Father, Son & Holy Ghost. Even Our Months, Star Signs And Planets, Are All Named After Greek & Roman Deities.
@@omarlittle-hales8237I don't believe in a God of flesh and blood but an infinite God and that the only reason that God is anthropomorphized is because we are limited by finite terminology. There are some that state that 'As Above So Below' means that we are also Gods, I dispute that as we can only create something from something and there has never been anyone that ever lived that could create something from nothing. Yes there are parallel stories in many cultures. There was a reason that Abraham was told to go to the land of Canaan/Israel and what he saw there as he was an expert Astrologer/Astronomer that there was no power over that land. All the other 70 post flood nations had celestial principalities each of which was represented by a divine Prince that was answerable to God the Most High. Yes it is possible that those divine princes had their earthly counterparts, but they did not come down to this world in the sense that you mean. We all come down into this world after spending time in Heaven/Celestial Garden Of Eden between incarnations, with some being reincarnated straight away. The worship of the Celestial Princes is not the worship of God but is Star Worship, with the other main types of worship being the Sun and the Moon. It however is not necessary to go through an intermediary. That is why Jews stick to the Torah and reject the Christian and Islamic doctrines, though we don't deny that there are levels of truth in other paths, it's just not for us. Incidentally, anyone can have a relationship with the Most High if they want and are not bound to any intermediaries.
@@truthfuturist Salam, Shlomo, Shalom, Peace. Quran [Last Testament]: The heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit, before We clove them asunder" Following this big explosion, God "turned to the sky, and it had been (as) smoke. He said to it and to the earth: 'Come together, willingly or unwillingly.'
Arabia were Jewish and Christians before Islam... Himyarite jewish kingdom in Yemen lasted until the Starting of Islam.. Canaan land inhabited by Samaritans of torah and jews in Jerusalem
@@QusaiSaleem-gs4itthe Arab pagans where not in Canaan though, they were in the Arabian peninsula. Arabs are not native to the levant, they’re semites but from farther south, just like Ethiopians are semites but from even more south…
Who's that Caliph from Cairo since Al Hakim died in 1021! Not mentioned😮 However if that was Al Hakim, well Muslims also call him 'mad'! Many Authors talk about coercive measures not forced conversions (Ref Amir Ali and Thomas Arnold). All converge to say that his measures disappeared with him. Maimonides converted to Islam in Spain (may be he blasphemed according to 'Le Point References' Feb/Mar 2014). But he reverted to Judaism in Egypt under Saladin. Yes, somebody condemned to the gallows in Islam redeems himself by converting to Islam as probably happened under Al Hakim or the alMohads since some Jews helped the Christians. You won't blame us to be lenient (free to recant later). As for remnants of Jewish rituals, maybe, maybe not (a set up?) as Zionists are profoundly embarrassed having been protected by Muslims and now (according to 'sacred' scriptures and subscribed by Ben Gourion (half mad said author Alan Hart): The killing of women & children legitimized!
This video is made by i24? LoL. I'll come back to this shortly! Does anyone know the researches made by Israel Belkind as reported by Shlomo Sand 😂 In there there's no hint at 'forced conversions' but 'conversions' in short after the dispersion of the 12 tribes following the Assyrian aggression first in 721 then in 705! I e that the Jewish agricultural workers converted en masse to Islam and they form the bulk of the Palestinians today. Moreover Jewish historian Joseph Reinach said in 1919 that the Ashkenazi so-called Jews are in fact Roman, Egyptian & Greek converts to Judaism in large numbers 7 years after 70 AD as told by Jewish historian Alfred Lilienthal and that was revealed by Hasday Ben Shaprut, prime minister to Abdul Rahman III Caliph of Spain in 961! So the Ashkenazi are not semitic 😮 Never mind, Muslims have harbored you always 😢
A Greek or Roman who converted to Judaism in 70ad, their descendants have more right to the land than a Muslim Arab who came there 800 years later. Ashkenazis have a large add mixture of Middle Eastern haplotype markers so they’re indigenous to Canaan.
@@arayter My point is that not only Muslims have always harboured Jews when they were massacred by Europeans (Ref Emmanuel Todd, French demographer) but Judaism which was doomed in Roman lands, Persia & Visigothic Spain won a second lease of life when Arabs conquered all these lands & gave Jews not only freedom of worship but .... prosperity! Admixtures of blood have little or no importance in Islam as Biruni had hinted upon finding the horrendous caste system in India 😇!
@@shainazion4073pt you know they aren't descended from Ishmael. Mohammed made that lie up, which is obvious, as there is no written record of that particular truism made prior to him.
😂😂😂😂😂so stop saying that since we are Arabs, we have no right to the land. Because a) we are not Arabs. b) even if we were, that doesn't give Israelis the right to kick us out. And don't say that now since we are no longer jews by faith we don't deserve the land. Many Israelis are atheists ! And jews have always considered jewishness an ethnicity and a matter of ancestory
Europeans settlers are not indegenious to this land. Palestinians and Palestinian jews have been on this land since cannan,greek Egyptian the ottoman and greek civilizations. Palestinian jews and Palestinians have genetic commonalities. The Palestinians are the righful owners of that land not European settlers.The Palestinians date back to the Levant stone age.
He is just a liar. They stole much Palestinian and Arab heritage. They even stole food recipes. Ethnically, the Arabs and the Jews are close but they are different in so many ways.
I think life was good in the land of Cannan, till a deranged Abraham showed up, since he landed his foot in the land of Cannan the middle east didn't experience peace or prosperity.
How dare you call Israel an apartheid state ? Jews, Arabs, Christians, Beduines, Druze, and others minorities use the same beaches, same hospitals,same buses. same restaurants, same supermarkets, same in everything. Jewish, Arabs, Christian, Druze and other ethnic minorities doctors, cleaners, nurses, surgeons. do work together side by side. The Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court is an Israeli Arab. There are Israeli Arabs in the Israeli parliament and last Israeli government lead by Lapid there was an Israeli Arab in the government Jews, Arabs, Christians,Beduines, Druze, and other minorities are serving in the Israeli defence forces. Do you still call Israel an apartheid state ? If you do, then you must be stupid brainless donkey
Think Islam think racist and apartheid nation. !!!!!! How many synagogues and Churches in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia. Who destroyed the Buddha statue in Afghanistan ? Jews , Muslims, or Christians ?
@@Manowar68 Ezekiel 43:7 And He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. No more shall the house of Israel defile "My holy name", they nor their kings, by their harlotry or with the carcasses of their kings on their high places. Revelation 17:5 And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. Daniel 3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 1 Kings 11:4 For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods; and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David. 1 Kings 10:14 The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, 2 Chronicles 9:13 The weight of gold that came to Solomon yearly was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, Rev 13:17-18 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. Exodus 32:30-33 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! Yet now, if You will forgive their sin-but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. Daniel 3:12 There are certain Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; these men, O king, have not paid due regard to you. They do not serve your gods or worship the gold image which you have set up.” Revelation 14:9-12 Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Zechariah 11:13-14 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”-that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter. Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. Psalms 2:7-9 “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me,‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them to pieces like a potter’s vessel.’” Daniel 2:44-46 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold-the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face, prostrate before Daniel, and commanded that they should present an offering and incense to him. Isaiah 14:22-23 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “And cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord. “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, And marshes of muddy water; I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts. Revelation 18:2 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!
No they are not 🤦🏻♀️ Scientists reveal Jewish history's forgotten Turkish roots. Israeli-born geneticist believes the Turkish villages of Iskenaz, Eskenaz and Ashanaz were part of the original homeland for Ashkenazic Jews.