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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (236970)	7/18/2007 6:14:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

If Israelis were mostly Oriental Jews, then how do you explain the strong European cultural influence there? Your claim that "most Israelis have ancestors who were never in Europe at any point in history" is therefore patently false. I will correct myself if you show a real study that backs up your claim. Demographic studies from the 1990s show about equal numbers of Ashkenzim and Mizrahim. They has been more recent immigration from the former USSR - mostly after 1991. Most of those Jews count as Ashkenazi, but some, like the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus, count as Mizrahim. So there are more Ashkenazi immigrants, but Mizrahi birthrates are higher. There is another census planned for next year which will tell the new numbers. In any case, nobody is saying the Ashkenazim or their cultural influence disappeared, so your statement is claiming a contradiction where none exists by confusing cultural influences with land of origin. For example: There are millions of Chinese, Japanese and Korean immigrants and their descendants in America. Are you claiming that all these people are really indigenous to Europe because America's cultural influences are European in origin?

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