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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (10372)	3/15/2006 7:52:03 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Gus > Imagine if the news broke that 20,000 Jews were living in dark, dank tin huts and going to bed hungry. Consider the reaction if this were happening in Argentina, Russia, France, or South Africa. But it is happening. And, what's more, those Jews are the real McCoy -- or, should I say, McCohens! freemaninstitute.com >>Tudor Parfitt, the protagonist of the NOVA documentary "Lost Tribes of Israel," made a journey through southern Africa to study the unusual traditions of a black African tribe called the Lemba. This Bantu-speaking group claimed Jewish ancestry and observed many Semitic traditions such as kosher-like dietary restrictions and slaughter practices, male circumcision rites, strict rules against intermarriage, and Semitic-sounding clan names. The team collected DNA samples from Bantu (African), Yemeni (Arab), and Sephardic Jews and Ashkenazi Jews (including Cohanim from both communities) to compare the amount of similarity that existed between each of these groups. As we've seen, the more similar the Y chromosome, the more closely related are some individuals in the different groups to a common paternal ancestor. As a consequence, one can establish links between populations. In an interview with NOVA, team member Dr. David Goldstein commented on the team's findings: "The first striking thing about the Y chromosomes of the Lemba is that you find this particular chromosomal type (Cohen modal haplotype) that is characteristic of the Jewish priesthood in a frequency that is similar to what you see in major Jewish populations. Something just under one out of every 10 Lemba that we looked at had this particular Y chromosomal type that appears to be a signature of Jewish ancestry. Perhaps even more striking is the fact that this Cohen genetic signature is strongly associated with a particular clan in the Lemba. Most of the Cohen modal haplotypes that we observe are carried by individuals of the Buba clan which, in Lemba oral tradition, had a leadership role in bringing the Lemba out of Israel."<< And you don't believe me when I tell you the Semites are not white. Of course, the Ashkenazim may be -- but they are not Semites. And, as I have been told, that was/is the root of the racism within the Jewish community itself -- it certainly was in South Africa fifty years ago. The Askenazim, particularly those of German extraction, believed they were the upper class Jews and looked down on the others. So, to that extent, I can agree with your racism hypothesis.