Possibly they are the Scythians or someone near Troy originally.
If the story of the Khazars is true, then they are part of the Turkic invasion around 650 to 965.
The Sephardi are not just Spanish Jews, but any Jews from the Mideast, like in Tunis, Morocco, Egypt, etc., so include the
Mizrahi Jews.
The Iberian Peninsula was just a temporary high light. The Jewish Viziers the Moors hired to administer, created a very successful center of civilization.
The Sephardi went back to N. Africa after Aragon and Castile beat the Moors.
But you are right about Andalusia.
(Funny how common that name is in Albuquerque apartment complexes.)
{...
The name "Andalusia" is derived from the
Arabic word
Al-Andalus (الأندلس).
[10] The toponym
al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia. These coins, called
dinars, were inscribed in both
Latin and
Arabic.
[11][12] The etymology of the name "
al-Andalus" has traditionally been derived from the name of the
Vandals. Since the 1980s, a number of proposals have challenged this contention. Halm, in 1989, derived the name from a Gothic term,
*landahlauts,
[13] and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate.
[14] The region's history and culture have been influenced by the
Tartessos,
Iberians,
Phoenicians,
Carthaginians,
Greeks,
Romans,
Vandals,
Visigoths,
Byzantines,
Berbers of North Africa,
Jews,
Romani,
Arab Umayyads, and
Moors. During the
Islamic Golden Age,
Cordoba surpassed
Constantinople[15][16] to be
Europe's biggest city, and became the capital of
Al Andalus and a prominent center of education and learning in the world, producing numerous philosophers and scientists.
[17][18] The
Castilian and other
Christian North Iberian nationalities reconquered and settled the area in the latter phases of the
Reconquista. ...}
Yes, Jews in Palestine were called Palestinians.
But the Carthaginians were not Jews, but Phoenicians
The Philistines are similar to Phoenicians, but more Greek influence.
The Phoenicians and Philistines likely were the original "People of the Sea", the Hyksos.
The claims of child sacrifice are likely untrue, and a means of slander.
Zionism has mythic origins, so is unreal and is harming millions of peoples, so must end.
It is not right for a culture that originated in the Mideast, to later come back to the Mideast to murder and destroy Mideast culture, people, and values.
The Arabs are the closest there is to actual Hebrew culture.
It is the Arabs who value agriculture, communal living, not being greedy or material, etc.
The Jews have lost their way, and have adopted all the evils of Europe, and lost all of the good things of their Mideast origins.
Palestinians are not Egyptians.
They are far more ancient than most of the Egyptians.
They never moved because it is against their culture and traditions to move.
To move would destroy them.
Nor is there a reason to move.
The Jews need the Palestinians.
They need to rediscover their ancient culture.
It can not be found in the Torah, but in the daily lives of the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are a glimpse of past.
A historical relic.
It is what Jews used to be like.
It is only by integrating with Palestinians that Jews can learn how to become real Jews once again.
Instead trying to live on mythology will only cause termination.
It can not work, and will always cause irreconcilable conflict, that can only end badly.
If one really studies history, ancient Israel only existed from about 900 BC to about 650 BC.
And we have nothing from that time period to know what that Israel was at all like.
Trying to live off of an ancient myth that has been embellished for 3 thousand years, is bound to lead to disaster.
Taking a European culture of lox and bagels to the Mideast is bound to lead to disaster.
Believing myths is bound to lead to disaster.
If there is anything we do know and can learn from mythology, is that Israel was destroyed more than any other civilization.
The Babylonians, Assyrians, Romans, Spanish, Russians, Poles, French, British, Germans, etc. all were angered to violence by Jewish snobbery.
It has been universally hated by everyone who comes in contract with it in history.
No one like arrogance, excessive pride, elitism, picky food fetishes, narcissism, bigotry, etc.
Those are faults to be worked on and reduced.
The conflicts in Palestine did not come from the Arabs.
The Arabs originally welcomed the Jewish immigrants.