>>10590201>>10590215I have decided that Ashkenazi are the furthest point of what could be considered European. Many have Middle Eastern admixture, but that's from living in the Middle East for so long (both in Israel and as slaves - probably more from being slaves than anything else; Blacks in america have an average of 25% European dna for this very reason). I see them as the first large European expansion out of Europe. According to the old testament, they don't come from Israel, it was a place they were rewarded with for their faith. They slaughtered the native inhabitants of Israel, and God committed acts of total genocide for them along the way to clear a path to their destination. I suspect this wasn't the first time they did this. My theory is that they were Europeans who claimed a divine mandate to find a new home, slaughtering their way back into the Levant, settling for a while before being enslaved by Arabs, only to find a way out of slavery and consolidation as a new people with a new divine mandate (Israelites).
Sephardi Jews and other Jews are Arab equivalent of hispanics, though.
