Stolen History: How the Palestinians and Their Allies Attack Israel's Right to Exist by Erasing Its Past Read Online Free PDF Page A

genes of widely separated Jewish populations having much more in common than have the genes of localized Jewish populations with their non-Jewish neighbors (despite intermarriage and conversion). These studies also support the Zionist assertion that most Jews, though scattered world-wide, share a common genetic ancestry in the ancient Near East, more specifically in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Israel). 46
    The strength of this research lies in the fact that groups examined in the study included not only major communities such as Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe and Sephardim from Bulgaria and Turkey, but also several that are much smaller and, like the Bukharan Jews of Central Asia and Jews from India, Ethiopia and Yemen, are often referred to as the "lost tribes" of Israel. Because the Nature paper compared the Jewish groups to an unprecedentedly broad array of non-Jewish groups, the results make the comparison — and the genetic ties identified — especially robust.
    Researchers from eight countries participated. They examined 600,000 genomic markers, distributed over the entire genome, comparing the descendents of 14 Diaspora Jewish communities with 69 non-Jewish populations around the world. The conclusion:
    "Historical evidence suggests a common origin in the Middle East, followed by multiple migrations that led to the creation of Jewish communities in Europe, Africa, and Asia - what we call the Jewish Diaspora ... Genome-wide analysis has proven extensive sharing of DNA sequences among geographically and temporally widely separated Diaspora Jewish communities — most of whom bear a Levantine Near East signature." 47
    In short, the Palestinian assertions denying the historicity of Jewish origins in Israel are thoroughly and comprehensively and decisively contradicted by the genetic research summarized above.
Conclusion
    The effort of Palestinians and their political allies in the West to alter, deny and misrepresent Israeli and Jewish history, while increasingly success ful, are so transparently Orwellian that it is valid to wonder why they lie so flagrantly?
    The answer is that they lie because the truth does not support their goals.
    The concepts of "historic Palestine,""Palestinian homeland," and the "Palestinian people" were all invented to suit the political needs of Arab forces committed to the destruction of Israel. 48 These concepts were born in a propaganda war — products of the Soviet Union's exploitation of post-1948 Arab anti-Israel rejectionism — to create a faux-history that changed the appearance of the conflict from a genocidal Arab war against the Jewish State, motivated almost exclusively by traditional Muslim Jew-hatred, 49 into a struggle by the "oppressed indigenous Palestinian people" for their national self-realization, political self-determination and freedom from occupation. By rebranding terrorism as a "struggle for freedom," the Soviets, and a compliant UN, could make a genocidal war against Israel could appear as a legitimate and even heroic struggle for nationhood by "freedom fighters." 50
    But in order for this revisionist history to work, there needed to be a "Palestinian homeland" where the "Palestinian people" had lived from "time immemorial." Because these elements did not exist in reality, the Arab leadership needed to invent them. And the need to invent "Palestine" brought with it an equally deformed Siamese twin: the need to deconstruct Israel, to disconnect Jews and Judaism, Israel and Israelites, from their own traditional homeland and from their history.
    And perhaps the greatest irony of all is that Palestinian leaders are open and frank about their desire to erase Jewish history and fabricate their own. Among the "Palestinian papers" released to the world via wikileaks, there is one called "Talking Points on Recogntion [sic] of Jewish State." 51 In this paper a Palestinian Authority spokesperson details the reasons for not accepting Israel as a Jewish state. Among