A long version of the headline question would be something like this: Given that in the 46th year of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank Jewish settlers are continuing to consolidate their hold on the territory’s land and water resources by stealing more and more of both, thus demonstrating not only Zionism’s contempt for international law but, also, that the only peace Israel’s leaders are interested in is one that requires a complete Palestinian surrender to Zionism’s will, is there any real prospect, in any foreseeable future, of justice for the Palestinians?
It is probably still the case that, in the name of Arafat-like pragmatism, a majority of the oppressed Palestinians would regard the establishment of a state of their own on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem its capital as an acceptable minimum amount of justice.
They are, of course, fully aware that in such a scenario the right of return for those dispossessed of their land and their rights in 1948 and again in 1967 would have to be limited to return to the territory of the Palestinian mini state, which would mean, because of the lack of space, that only a relatively small number of the dispossessed Palestinians and their descendants would be able to return. (Arafat and his leadership colleagues calculated that initially not more than 100,000 would be able to return). The rest would have to settle for financial compensation.
Beyond that the Palestinians of a mini state would entertain the hope, as Arafat did when he persuaded the institutions of Palestinian decision-making to accept the need for unthinkable compromise with Israel (peace with it in return for only 22 percent of their land, thus legitimizing Israel’s occupation of the other 78 percent) that a genuine two-state solution could lead in one or two generations to one state by mutual consent. In that event there would be greater scope for more diaspora Palestinians to exercise their right of return.
But it isn’t going to happen. Though not yet buried, the two-state solution has long been dead, killed by Israel’s colonization with the complicity of the major powers and, by default, the regimes of an impotent Arab Order. As I document in detail in my book Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews, the Arab regimes never had any intention of fighting Israel to liberate Palestine or using the leverage they have to press the U.S. to require Israel to end its occupation of land grabbed in 1967.
As I also reveal in my book, the most explicit statement about why the two-state solution has long been dead was made to me in early 1980 by Shimon Peres. He was then the leader of Israel’s Labour Party, in opposition and hoping to win Israel’s next election and deny Begin a second term in office as prime minister. I was then acting as the linkman in a secret and exploratory dialogue between Peres and Arafat. At a point in our very first conversation for this initiative, Peres said that he feared it was “already too late”. I asked him why. He replied:
“Every day that passes sees new bricks on new settlements. Begin knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s creating the conditions for a Jewish civil war. He knows that no Israeli prime minister is going down in history as the one who gave the order to the Jewish army to shoot large numbers of Jews (to end the occupation).” Pause. “I’m not.”
Obvious question. If it was too late in 1980 when there were only about 70,000 illegal Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank including Arab East Jerusalem, how much more too late is it today when they number in excess of 500,000, with that number rising on an almost daily basis, thanks in large part to funding assistance from America’s Christian fundamentalists?
In passing it is interesting to note that the U.S. State Department has now defined Israeli settler violence against Palestinians as “terrorism”.
It is now clear beyond any doubt that the most any Zionist leadership will offer the Palestinians for peace is a maximum of 35-40 percent of the West Bank (the Sharon plan) in the shape of two, three or four Bantustans which the Palestinians could call a state if they wished. This is and always will be totally unacceptable to all Palestinians.
As things are and look like going, I believe the course is set for a final Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
I mean that when Israel’s leaders conclude that their policy of making life hell for the occupied Palestinians in the hope of causing them to abandon their struggle and leave in large numbers has failed, and that they can’t bring on a puppet Palestinian leader who will force his people to accept crumbs from Zionism’s table, they will create a pretext to drive the Palestinians off the West Bank and into Jordan or wherever. One possible pretext could come about with a classic false flag operation – Mossad agents posing as Palestinian terrorists to plant bombs and kill Israeli Jews.
What about the Palestinians of the blockaded Gaza Strip? According to the latest UN report, it will not be “a liveable place” by 2020 unless action is taken to improve basic services in the territory. My guess is that in Zionism’s plan for the future the Gaza Strip’s Palestinians will be left to sink deeper and deeper into poverty, misery and despair in the hope, Zionism’s hope, that this will eventually cause large numbers of them to flee and seek a new life elsewhere. If that doesn’t happen Israel’s leaders will have the option of creating a pretext for a Gaza Strip ethnic cleansing operation by military means.
After months of reflection my conclusion is not only that the Zionist state of Israel is a monster beyond control but that Palestine IS a lost cause UNLESS… The main purpose of this article is to put some flesh on the bone of what I see as the Unless Scenario.
In it there are two initiatives for the Palestinians themselves to take.
The first is to demand and insist upon the dissolution of the impotent and discredited PA (Palestine Authority) in order to make Israel completely responsible and therefore fully accountable for its occupation.
Without the PA’s American trained security forces to keep the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank (Hamas supporters especially) under control for Israel, having to take complete responsibility for occupation would be costly financially and in terms of the additional call on Israel’s own security resources.
More to the point, if the Zionist (not Jewish) state had complete responsibility for the occupation, calling and holding it to account for its defiance of international law and its occupation policies would be, in theory, less than what it is at present – a mission impossible
But if theory is to be turned into practise, something very significant has to happen.
Only governments can call and hold Zionism to account for its crimes, but they won’t act unless they are pushed to do so by informed public opinion. The problem, as I never tire of saying and writing, is that public opinion, in the U.S. especially, is too uninformed – too conditioned by Zionist propaganda – to do the pushing in big enough numbers. So here’s THE question: With the mainstream media unwilling to come to grips with the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict in and over Palestine that became Israel, how can the citizens of nations be informed and empowered to do the pushing in big enough numbers?
There are hundreds of groups of all faiths and none around the world which call and campaign for justice for the Palestinians, but (generally speaking) they are each and all doing their own little things in isolation, which makes them like flies to be swatted away by Zionism. In that light I think the informing to mobilise public opinion to push governments can only be done if groups of all faiths and none everywhere which call and campaign for justice for the Palestinians collaborate and form one (Zionist-like) universal lobby. The internet makes the necessary collaboration and coordination perfectly possible.
The strategy of a universal lobby for Palestinian rights should be determined by asking and answering one question. Why, really, has Zionism succeeded to date?
The short answer is its success in selling propaganda lies about the making and sustaining of the conflict as truth; an amazing achievement that was assisted by having the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust to play as a blackmail card.
It follows, or so it seems to me, that the first priority of a coordinated, universal lobbying campaign for justice for the Palestinians should be to present in forums and on platforms of every kind the documented evidence which exposes Zionism’s propaganda lies for the nonsense they are.
Four of the many essential truths to be communicated are:
- that almost all if not all the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection whatsoever to the ancient Hebrews and therefore no claim on the land;
- that Israel was created mainly by Zionist terrorism and ethnic cleansing;
- that Israel’s existence has never been threatened by any combination of Arab force – i.e. Israel has not lived in constant danger of annihilation, the “driving into the sea” of its Jews; and
- that it was Israel not the Arabs which closed the door to prospects for peace time and time again.
I am assuming (am I guilty of wishful thinking?) that if the citizens of nations, Westerners especially and Americans in particular, were aware of the truth of history as it relates to the making and sustaining of the conflict, they would insist that their governments called the Zionist monster to account – not only for the sake of justice for the Palestinians but also to best protect the interests of all, including the Jews of the world. (In a Footnote below there is reference to a report of the thinking of America’s intelligence community on what must be done to protect US national interests).
Now to the second initiative the Palestinians could and in my view should take if they are to play their part in preventing Palestine becoming a lost cause.
Obviously the dissolution of the PA will only happen if enough Palestinians demand it. But in my view it’s not only the occupied and oppressed Palestinians who need to do the demanding. In my view it’s time for Palestinians everywhere to become engaged by peaceful and democratic means in the struggle to end the Zionization of their homeland. Put another way, if the Zionist colonial project is to be contained and defeated, the incredible, almost superhuman steadfastness of the occupied and oppressed Palestinians must be supplemented by practical, effective and co-ordinated Palestinian diaspora action. For what purpose?
Not only to bring about the dissolution of the PA but to have it replaced as soon as possible by a re-structured and re-invigorated PNC (Palestine National Council). Once upon a time this now side-lined parliament-in-exile represented Palestinians nearly everywhere in the world and was the supreme decision-making body on the Palestinian side. Even Arafat was accountable to it. (It did, in fact, take him six long years to persuade a majority of PNC delegates to endorse his policy of politics and compromise with Israel. That happened towards the end of 1979. The PNC vote in favour of Arafat’s policy – the two-state solution – was 296 for it and only four against. From then on the Palestinian door was open to peace on terms which any rational government and people in Israel would have accepted with relief. Arafat’s problem then was that he didn’t have a partner for peace on the Israeli side. He did eventually get one in the shape of Prime Minister Rabin, but he was assassinated by a Zionist zealot. The assassin knew exactly what he was doing – killing the Oslo peace process Arafat started and to which a reluctant Rabin pushed by Peres responded positively. It is fashionable today for pro-Palestinian activists to rubbish the Oslo peace process, but I still think Arafat’s take on the matter was correct. When it was obviously doomed to failure by Israel’s complete rejection of it after Rabin’s death, I asked Arafat if he thought that history would say he had made the mistake of his life in thinking that he could trust Israeli leaders to keep their word and honour agreements. He replied to the effect that if the US had backed the Oslo process it could have worked – could have achieved “something concrete” for the Palestinians on which they could, hopefully, build).
For the PNC to be brought back to life re-structured and re-invigorated there would have to be elections to it in communities throughout the Palestinian diaspora.
The composition of the Palestinian diaspora by countries and numbers of Palestinians resident in them is roughly the following. Jordan – 2,900,000; Israel – 1,600,000; Syria – 800,000 Chile – 500,000; Lebanon – 490,000; Saudi Arabia – 280,245; Egypt – 270,245; United States – 270,000; Honduras -250,000; Venezuela – 245,120; United Arab Emirates – 170,000; Germany -159,000; Mexico – 158,000; Qatar – 100,000; Kuwait – 70,000; El Salvador – 70,000 Brazil – 59,000; Iraq – 57,000; Yemen – 55,000; Canada – 50,975; Australia – 45,000; Libya – 44,000; Denmark – 32,152; United Kingdom – 30,000; Sweden – 25,500; Peru – 20,000; Columbia – 20,000; Spain – 12,000; Pakistan – 10,500; Netherlands – 9,000; Greece – 7,500; Norway – 7,000; France – 5,000; Guatemala – 3,500; Austria – 3,000; Switzerland – 2,000; Turkey – 1,000; and India – 300.
The prime task of a re-structured and re-invigorated PNC would be to debate and determine Palestinian policy and then represent it by speaking to power with one credible voice. That could only assist the task of empowering the citizens of nations with the truth of history.
There is also a joint initiative a universal lobby for Palestinian rights and a re-structured and re-invigorated PNC could that would of itself be a game changer. Just imagine what would happen if a million or more diaspora Palestinians, other Arabs and peoples of all faiths and none marched peacefully on Greater Israel from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
I can see only two ways in which any Israeli government could react. It could order the IDF to shoot to kill in unthinkable numbers – a reaction that would so horrify the world that governments, including the one in Washington D.C., would have no choice but to take whatever steps were necessary to bring Zionism’s colonial enterprise to an end; or it, the Israeli government, pushed perhaps by a majority of its own people, could say something like: “We are now ready to be serious about real peace even if the outcome of negotiations is One State for all, provided only that the wellbeing and security of all its citizens. Arabs and Jews, is guaranteed.”
I have suggested the need for such a march in the past. It really could be organized if the groups of all faiths and none everywhere who call and campaign for justice for the Palestinians put their act together.
Footnote
I think I am not alone in wondering if there is real substance to a recent report in Foreign Policy Journal by Franklin Lamb with the headline America Preparing For a Post-Israel Middle East? (A Professor of Law and a former Assistant Counsel to the US House Judiciary Committee, Lamb, currently based in Beirut, is a real Middle East expert with very good sources).
The lead point of Lamb’s article was that the 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community commissioned a study which has produced in draft form an 82-page analysis, apparently due for publication very soon, which concludes that “the American national interest is fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel“, and that “Israel is currently the greatest threat to US national interests because its nature and actions prevent normal US relations with Arab and Muslim countries and, to a growing degree, the wider international community.”
According to Lamb’s account, the draft study is nothing less than a call for the next president to put America’s own interests first by withdrawing its support (funding and other) for the Zionist monster.
My first reaction to Lamb’s account was – if true, wow!
If it is true, I mean if such a draft analysis does exist, one speculation invited is that whoever is the next American president will have to choose between saying “No” to his intelligence community and putting America’s own best interests first or “No” to Zionism. In that event a key factor in the presidential decision-making process would be the state of American public opinion. In my view the president would need it to be much better informed about the truth of history than it is today if he wanted to say “No” Zionism and have the best possible chance of staying on that track when the Zionist lobby and its many stooges in Congress tried to push him off it.
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Hmmm
The title has it all backward. The real question should be: "Is Israel a lost cause", should we send in the Marines and just start over?
If South African can recover their land from the European occupiers by armed struggle - So can Palestinians. The main difference in these cases is that the White Afrikans never bothered to control America's political system - and thus were dumped by Washington for its national interests. Israel, on the other hand - control practically everything in the United States. so much so that Dr. Lasha Darkmoon calls the US as "Israeli colony".
http://rehmat1.com/2011/11/04/lasha-darkmoon-america-is-an-israeli-colony/
I was also amazed when I saw this study of planning for a post-Israel Middle East - thought it was a joke.
However, the Foreign Policy Journal has checked the validity of this paper asking Franklin Lamb to provide background for his claims.
See
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/08/28/us-preparing-for-a-post-israel-middle-east/
where this note is found:
[Editor's Note: While this report does not mention the source for the information concerning the alleged draft report, FPJ with permission from the author is able to disclose that the source is a staffer with a certain research unit of the CIA.]
If this is true it is certainly most welcome! It would probably mean that some people are prepared to take the battle with the media and the Israel lobby - and likely with approval from the top. The lobby people have succeeded in assuming control with important positions and have tried to put Israel firsters in many top posts. But many in the intelligence community, military etc. have been offended and truly disturbed as true patriots to see this cancer spreading in the institutions and government of USA. So, one can hope this is part of a grand strategy to get rid of the lobby and its fifth column people once and for all.
Dear Franklin,
A very interesting piece, especially the IC report on Preparing for a Post Israel Middle East. The conclusions of the report as you describe them should certainly cause the Jewish/Zionist community to sit up. However, no matter what the recommendations be, I don't think they will ever be applied. Obama notwithstanding, which I don't believe he is, there is no way I can see them being implemented. Israel is tied to the US at the hip, one neither controlling nor influencing the other, but rather working for exactly the same goals in the Middle East. If Israel didn't exist, the US policies in the Middle East would be exactly as they are today. Israel is a useful partner in executing those policies.
I wonder if the IC report in not just a facade to make it look like there is a difference between the policies of these two countries? Ros-Lehtinen has not much to worry about, whether the winners in this election are the Republics or the Democrats. There is not a sliver of difference between them.
Best regards,
Gene Schulman
PS - The typo in your ultimate paragraph is telling, almost a Freudian slip: "The soon to be published 'daft' report......"
Alan, above was my reply to Franklin's article as it appeared in Information Clearing House. His reply to me was: "What makes you think it was a typo?" I agree with you that one-state is the only solution, but it will come only when Zionism and its US partners end their suicidal path of attempting world dominance.
I never understood this business of "facts on the ground." Israel has pursued colonization of the West Bank and Gaza (indeed all of Palestine) and by creating settlements creates "facts on the ground." Presumably this settlement is hard to undo. But, look again -- If colonists are "facts", so also are the Palestinians who preceded them. There are several million Palestinian "facts on the ground" and if they can be undone by Israel, then Israel's colonization can be undone as well. If it is possible to push many out, discourage many from living there, control access to the land, then these same strategies could be used to undo the colonization.
In short -- why is Israel's colonization immutable but the Palestinian possession of the land somehow more fluid? I don't see any reason why a combination of forces, including the US, cannot be brought to bear such that the settlements are isolated, boycotted and left to rot, so that these Jews go back to the Israel of the green line. Why not?
* Agree with the tone of your article, especially about winding up the PA. I agree the Palestinians worldwide seem incapable of helping themselves - why is that?
* Space for returning Palestinians? What about in the 500,000-odd homes of abandoned settler homes?
* How to inform the public? With an advertising campaign like that for John McCarthy or the most recent one paid for by Henry Clifford in New York, showing maps of the disappearing Palestinian land.
* You suggest using the internet to help generate co-ordination between the many disparate pro-Palestinian groups. But that's already being done, and has been for a long time, with no discernable result, so why should your version work any better?
* Your first priority - but again, this already happens. There are no end of forums and platforms that document the evidence that you describe, again, with no discernable result.
* A march on Israel was also proposed by Arun Gandhi. Apparently he suggested this to the PLO, who rejected the idea. It seems like a very good idea to me.
* Facts on the ground? There were facts on the ground before all this ever started in the late 1940s, but that didn't stop radical and rapid change (occasioned by the point of a gun, of course). So facts on the ground now are no reason to conclude that those facts can never change. Because of course they can, though perhaps only at the point of a gun again. Or, just possibly, by a march.
[...] Alan Hart: Is Palestine A Lost Cause? [...]
In 2002, American author Greg Palast published his book, titled “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy”. The book is a compilation of his investigating reports. The book exposes various powerful foreign, religious and industrial lobby groups which runs the government in United States through investing in the political parties by funding candidated for the White house, Senate and Congress. The book proves beyond any doubt that the US administration is not elected by the public but the interested lobbying groups. However, Washington, like many other myths – has kept its ‘world champion of democratic system’ myth through mass propaganda. Tragically, in most of the cases the “free elections” helped the anti-USrael got elected, i.e. in Occupied Palestinian Territoties, Lebanon and Iraq.
http://rehmat2.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/how-lobby-money-controls-us-politics/
There are so many problems among Palestine activists that in spite of their growing numbers, solidarity has fallen by the wayside in favor of personality cults, hate groups, fraudsters and others who act only in self interest. There is no common cause, and a lesson can be taken from the zionists themselves, who let nothing get between them and their objective - to promote any and all narrative that is pro-Israel. In fact, Finkelstein was right to use the term "cultish" to describe not the BDS movement but Palestine activists in general, who seem to be accomplishing almost nothing while zionism continues to eat up Palestine.
I have never seen Foreign israel so fragile.
A recent poll found that 25% of zionists indicated that they will leave if war breaks out against Iran.
The writing is on the wall.
> David King: That's only to save their own skin, not because they don't approve of a war.
Mene mene tekel ........
It's one thing to bomb the unarmed Gazans, most of whom are children, and quite another to bomb Iran. Iran can guarantee heavy Israeli casualties via retaliation. If I were Israeli I'd be getting the hell outa Dodge.
@ Gene: Of course.
@ Maryam: Foreign zion will NOT attack Iran.
What does this poll mean? 25% is a very large number. I think it indicates that many zionists realise ersatz israel's time is running out. It is not just this issue with Iran. Things have been going from bad to worse; and their world is disintegrating. Ersatz israel is a failed idea and it's time has come.
@ David and Maryam: I agree that eretz (ersatz?)Israel is a failed idea, and has been from the beginning. That's precisely why there will be a war with Iran; to postpone the end. They will drag the US down with it, not without a lot of help from the US, itself.
The impending war on Iran is the culmination of 64 years of zionist lunacy, paranoia and heavy-handed manipulation. I've always believed that Israel would be the catalyst for World War III, and I still do. There is nothing stopping Netanyahu from launching unilateral air strikes on Iran; as much as Obama despises him, he will do nothing to stop it because Bibi knows Obama is desperately in need of zionist political and financial support. Who knows, Obama might find himself being Sheldon Adelson's new best friend if he goes along with an attack on Iran before November. Witness last night's desperate move by Obama - he personally made sure the Democratic Party platform includes a clause saying that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel.
Let us all not forget that it is the US that wants regime change in Iran. Israel is only its bulldog, doing a good job yapping and keeping everyone on the edge of their seats. Obama will do nothing to rein in Netanyahu.
Is Palestine a lost cause..........well apparently it is as....
In the city of Brighton UK a new outlet opened this week called Ecostream, it manufactures its products in Mishor Adumim the industrial unit of the illegal settlement of Ma'ale Adumim.
So the Israeli's are permitted with the council's consent to infiltrate our society.
Corporate Watch has all the relevant documents on their website.
This is BAD news for Justice
@ Gene
Ersatz: an artificial substance or article used to replace something natural or genuine; a poor quality substitute.
I am not convinced that Foreign israel will attack. If they do, it would mean the end for them. The zionist population is ready to break and flee. Bomb Tel Aviv and they could never recover. Those left behind, such as the "Settlers" ...well, we have spoken about the coming Holocaust.
In regards to the US; they are moving to a Police state model. Their soldiers will be returning to the US for policing duties. The US citizens will either acquiesce or throw off the zionist yoke. Perhaps the zionists will flee to the US from Palestine? "As yea sow, so shall yea reap."
Please be sure that I am not arguing against an immoral and brutal occupation, but I take issue with sentences wrought with fallacies such as: "that almost all if not all the Jews who went to Palestine in answer to Zionism’s call had no biological connection whatsoever to the ancient Hebrews and therefore no claim on the land" - What on earth is a 'biological' claim to land anyway? Land is land, and people are people. They are not the same. Moreover, this suggests a large unverifiable claim on your part regarding biological issues, and perhaps not the best rhetorical strategy in any case. Shlomo Sand regarded 'biological claims' as so much Nazi eugenics, but was unable to refute that there is plenty of research to indicate genetic markers linking Jewish populations worldwide; whether they are descendants of 'ancient Hebrews' (?), or whether the Palestinians are 'ancient Palestinians' (?) is equally unverifiable. We are not talking about Amazonian natives in the rainforest: no culture is in the near East or Europe is not blended, none have an unending connection to a region. On this essential hybridity Edward Said wrote, "No culture today is pure. Huntingdon writes about the West as if France we still made up of exclusively of Duponts and Bergeracs, England of Smiths and Joneses. This is fundamentalism, not analysis of culture, which, it bears repeating, was made by mankind … Another way of using difference in culture is to welcome the “other” as equal but not precisely the same … We have a choice to work for conflict, or against it. We must not be fooled by Huntington’s martial accents into believing that we are condemned to ceaseless strife, because in fact we are not." ('The Uses of Culture' in 'The End of the Peace Process—Oslo and After', 2000, London, Granta Books. Essay published originally in February 1997 in Al-Ahram Weekly, The Gulf Today, Al-Khaleej, Al-Hayat.) Sabeel founder Naim Ateek owned that the Palestinians were a mixture of peoples who had lived in the region throughout history, some of them most likely descended from Jews (likewise equally blended). Edward Said also admitted (in the above essay) that Palestine was a land of many peoples: "… Palestine is and always has been a land of many histories; it is a radical simplification to think of it as principally, or exclusively, Jewish or Arab, since although there has been a long-standing Jewish presence there, it is by no means the main one. Not only the Arabs, but Canaanites, Moabites, Jebusites, and Philistines in ancient times, and Romans, Ottomans, Byzantines, and Crusaders in the modern ages were tenants of the place which in effect is multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious. In fact, then, there is as little historical justification for homogeneity as there is for notions of national or ethnic and religious purity today …" You can argue for justice for Palestinians, you can argue against an insensitive and immoral colonial-like settlement by Zionists that displaced people from lands on which they had been living for generations, but please don't argue for racial and cultural purity or time immemorial connections. It is is lie.
@ Talitha Degu
"I am not arguing against an immoral and brutal occupation..."
I think you mean, or I hope you mean, that you are not arguing FOR an immoral and brutal occupation.
"What on earth is a 'biological' claim to land anyway?"
It is a reference to a common zionist claim, that their ancestors lived in Palestine, until the Romans drove them out, 2000 years ago. They are claiming the ownership of the land today and they are basing that claim on their ancestors occupation of the region at the time of the Bible.
"there is plenty of research to indicate genetic markers linking Jewish populations worldwide."
Of course and why wouldn't there be? Judaism isn't and never was a world wide religion. It was a regional belief and I will argue that it remains thus. It is only modern aviation that has transplanted Judaism (conversions amongst global population is very low or non existent). Please also note that Ashkenazi Jews suffer a broad range of genetic disease as a result of inbreeding.
So let me emphasis again; why wouldn't there be common genetic markers between the majority of Jews?
Who are the majority of Jews? 80% of Jews world wide are ethnically Ashkinazi. Their origins are Eastern Europe and Germany. Given what we already know in terms of their inbreeding; we can deduct that their appearance has not been substantially altered over the centuries. If we can now agree, that 2000 years ago; there did not exist a German speaking Caucasian ethnic group in the Middle East; we can deduct that the ancestors of the zionists did not populate present day Palestine; and whats more; nor are they the decedents of the Jewish Bible.
I don't believe anyone here is arguing for racial purity. Once again considering the Ashkinazi inbreeding diseases we can say that racial purity is a zionist belief.
You're in a sense trying to explain zionism's idiotic racism, which is a lame attempt at justifying Jewish dominance in Palestine in modern times.
It's simple, really - just because it can be proven, or surmised, that Jews lived in Palestine 2,000 or 3,000 years ago means nothing. It does not mean the land belongs to modern day European-descended religious convert Jews. It also does not mean that 2,000 or 3,000 years ago the Jews were predominant or rulers of Palestine, merely that they lived there along with the Arabs.
So the "biological connection" is meaningless and certainly under no circumstances justifies the occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.