Recent biological research has clearly shown that despite their long-term residence in different countries and isolation from one another, most Jewish populations were not significantly different from one another at the genetic level. The researchers studied six Jewish populations: Yemenite, Ashkenazic, Near Eastern, North African, Asia Minor and the Balkans, and Ethiopian. The first five showed a strong affinity, with the Ashkenazi and Yemenite populations coming out the closest. There was a close resemblance between
the Jewish communities and Palestinian and Syrian Arabs.
Another research showed that the Jews in different countries are much closer to Jews in other countries that to their non-Jewish neighbors.
There was no resemblance between the Ashkenazim and present day Turks, which means that the Ashkenazim are not descendants of the Khazars.
All that indicates that the Jews are indeed ONE people and they originated in the Middle East, |
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