Thanks for sharing this

Submitted by Steve Hagerman (United States), Aug 6, 2016 at 19:20

When I lived in Jerusalem many years ago, I met a respected ethnologist (Jacob Willibrands) who told me that he had done research on most Palestinian villages of Israel, Jordan, Gaza and the occupied territories and found that the majority (even in Gaza) were descended from ancient Israel. I don't remember him referring to the Bedouins. I have read that Israeli geneticists have done studies among Israelis and Palestinians and have found the Cohen haplogype among Palestinians in almost the same percentage as among Jews. If I remember correctly it was either 8 or 10 percent. A friend from Syria told me that people in his homeland often said that the Palestinians looked like the Jews (His wife is a Palestinian). When I lived there I often thought this myself.

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