Ashkenazi are most likely heavily descended from the Khazar. This may go a long way towards explaining why Phil spends so much time thinking about doing some plundering and pillaging on the lusty wives and widows in his community. Khazar is interpreted to mean "wandering" in the Turkic language they spoke.

There nearly certainly was a Roman exile, as there was prior a Babylonian and Persian exile.

There was at least a Roman inquisition. If the Spanish inquisition is any model a large number remained, converted for appearance, but remained Jews privately, and a large number left.

And, if ANY Jews mixed with Khazars, then there had to be at least inter-marriage, and not that Khazars arbitrarily adopted Judaism and imposed it.

As far as the assertion that Palestinians are the remaining "Israelites", that ignores migration in and out of the region prior.

Most likely some are descended from Jewish origins, and are genetic kin to Jews, if not matrilinially Jews.

It does not support either Shahak's or Martillo's revisionist theories though.

I suggests that there are more tributaries than a single, but not that the European tributaries are fraud.

I go through a lot of the material in The Origins of Modern Jewry and in Followup(II): The Origins of Modern Jewry and all the articles to which these blog entries link.

In the short description of the current state of affairs, Palestinians are the descendants of the Judeans of Palestine of the Greco-Roman period.

Islam has evolved from the peasant form of Second Temple Judaism and is for the most part Jamesian Christianity.

Syrian Christianity and Greek Orthodoxy are closer to the elite Palestinian and Hellenistic versions of Second Temple Judaism. They are grounded in Paul's and John's interpretation of Jesus with the modifications that Constantine supported.

Medieval Rabbanite and Karaite Judaism are much later highly modified developments.

When I have had to deal with Christian Zionists, I start from this point to argue that by supporting Zionist interlopers and invaders in preventing the exiles from returning to their homes in Palestine, they have become actors in the prophesies of the Revelation and are firmly on the side of the anti-Christ.

By their own interpretation of scripture, Christian Zionists are destined to suffer eternal torments in Hell.

The accurate summary is of multiple tributaries, containing both blood and culture, that retained a common theme.

Those that retained the theme are Jewish, regardless of origin or path.

Identified as a culture, affirmed in a nation.

Racialists that regard themselves as ANTI-Jewish certainly found means to identify common identity and exclude or kill.

Revision isn't an idea, its a distortion.

The type of essentialism and primordialism you espouse differs in no major way from that of the German Nazis, and is a major reason why I call you an ethnic Ashkenazi Nazi.

As a group, ethnic Ashkenazi Nazis like Richard Witty are far worse than the German Nazis. They are completely unwilling to acknowledge that they serve a lie and that Jewish ethnic fundamentalism as led to the commission of mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Germans show remorse for the crimes committed in the name of the "German People." Ethnic Ashkenazi Nazis like Richard and his ilk in Stolen and Occupied Palestine never do anything of the sort for crimes committed in the name of the "Jewish People."

For this reason I believe — independent of the need to dismantle the Zionist imperial system (Judonia) — that the Zionist invader and interloper population must be removed.

Until there is some awareness that Zionism was fundamentally wrong, one must assume that Zionists will some time in the future commit exactly the same crimes all over again.

BTW, Zionist crimes do not stop with Palestine. On the basis of Pipes appearance at Harvard, I have the impression that Neocon sights are already set on Saudi Arabia in addition to or as a substitute for Iran. See Saudia in the Gun Sights.