Let us listen to a Ashkenazi(European) Jew in Jerusalem. WW III anybody??
Hope you don't mind if I don't watch, my oven light just lighted on.
He is a radical fundamentalist as are various Muslims and Christians. This radical fundamentalist viewpoint in all religions is really dangerous.
The Chasidim Jews are the tiny minority in Israel. As a cultural Reform Jew I do not share their religious nor political beliefs. They are best to be ignored as radicals.
Ashkenazi does not mean "European" - the Ashkenazim are Jewish people descended from the communities that settled in Germany and France during the medieval period, while the (also European) Sephardim are descended from those who settled in Spain and Portugal.
Yisrael Ariel, incidentally, is a right-wing nutter and is widely considered as such by many Jewish people both in Israel and in the Diaspora. Do not assume his views are even remotely indicative of those of all, or even a majority of, Jewish people or Israelis.
Thanks for putting that one straight. For atheists there is certainly a lot of Christian-like mis-information abounding here!
Sephardics are also north African
@Countrywoman They're the same people - the Jewish people who settled in North Africa are the descendants of the same Sephardim who lived in Iberia. They left Iberia after Spain and Portugal came under Christian rule, relocating to North Africa because the Muslims who held power there were happy to tolerate them, just as they had been when they ruled Spain and Portugal. How the world has changed.
I learned that the Askenazi were descendents of the Khazar, who settled in Russia Circa 800 A.D. and took on the Jewish identity. The diaspora became those who settled in Russia, Poland, France, Germany, ect...
85% of those who call themselves Hebrew/Jewish are not by blood.
Biblically they say those Jewish persons all over the world are the lost tribes of Israel. Israel was created in 1946 circa, by land purchased from the Palestinians. A mass migration of the Ashkenazim from European/Russian countries, landed in Israel.
I mean we can start a lengthy discoarse about this topic. I understand he is a radical. But he exists. If you are not Hebrew/Jew you are Goyim, outside the nation of jews. This is what is written in the text. These people believe they are Gods people, and the covennant was made with them.
According to scripture, the covennant was made with the line of Abrahim. Isaac's line became the the Hebrews, through Jacob's line and to today's Israeli. The line of Ishmael, Isaac's brother, became Arabic muslims.
We were taught as christians that we probably had hebrew/jewish blood in our veins because of the diaspora and the lost tribes of Israel.
Ignorance is combatted through knowledge. But when you throw a mythical god into the mix, anything is possible.
I look at what is being done to the Palestinians in the name of yahweh, so the jews can have the land. And the largest portion of them are not hebrew. A lie, perpetuated on a lie makes gods of men.
He is most deffinately Caucasoid as I can tell. The Hebrew language is Afro/Asiatic, although the Hebrews are characterized as being from the line of shem, thus semitic.
The postulation of several scholars is that the hebrews are the Hyksos who ruled in Egypt for 100 years or so. After the Hyksos exodus from Egypt to Canaan, they split into the Hebrews and Canaaites.
This is supported by archeological evidence as well as the linguistic record. Proto hebrew and the canaanite language are almost indistinguishable. I just checked my info, Hebrew is the last spoken canaanite language. Not to mention the Hebrews and the Canaanites shared the same God. El was their high God, El was represented by the planet Saturn.
My postulation is that the hysksos/canaanite/hebrew are a mix of negroid and mongoloid. I do not believe the caucasoid intermingled. Africans have a distinctive hair trait that is found in the ancient hebrews, afro-textured hair.
The out of Africa theory is currently being challenged. If Sumerians are the creators of civilization, and the creators of written language, I must put relavence to their text. According to the accepted timeline, the egyptian pyramids were created after the Sumerian Pyramids. However even this is being challenged, or I should say the timeline.
@Etre This is complicated somewhat by the fact that, according to halakha, there is no such concept as a Jewish convert - undergo the approved process of becoming Jewish and that's it, you are Jewish. Not a convert, not an ally nor in any way less than someone who was born to a Jewish mother, but 100% Jewish. While some people may argue that 85% of Jews are not Hebrews, in Judaism there is no distinction.
Let's also look at what some Palestinians do to some Israelis - the stabbings, the bombs, the rockets fired into populated areas and at schools. People are shit, regardless of religion, race or ethno-religious group. Yes, Ariel exists; so too do a number of Palestinians who would like to see the Jewish people wiped off the face of the planet.
@Jnei
I agree that you cannot convert. 100%. The hebrew religion is for the Hebrew, the bible is a linage chart. The historical record states the Khazars basically lost there home land, Khazaria. Being expelled they fled to Russia were they took on the Jewish identity. From this point you get the influx of a named jewish culture who are versed in Judaism and speak yiddish as it evolved.
Ashkenazi means German, because they settled there. What was Germany in 800 AD. Holy Roman Empire. The books say that jews settle in germany begining in the early 5th century to 1k AD. To me that matches pretty close to the Khazars exodus to russia, which was not called Russia at the time.
A just looked at a source that showed a genetic study showing that over 90% of the Askenazi traced a linage to turkey, Khazaria is part of the western turkey empire.
@Jnei
Khazaria was the land of the Scythians 1100 B.C. to 200A.D.
The israeli have done nothing but continue to take palestinian land beyond what the balfore declaration gave them. Yes I agree on both sides. But the palestians are getting shafted. The U.S. backs Israel on a lie.
We are very close to a war. Israel just shot down a syrian plane. Russia and China back Syria and Iran. The US invaded that region for the Oil. The US is chomping bits with Iran. Israel complains about everyone, but they have the nost Nukes.
This is a complicated chess match and all of the pieces are not in play. This is the world stage, where only those who are in the know, know. Everyone else is given propaganda. History is the only source.