Please disprove Elhaik's evidence Shush...the argument you post is so ridiculously stupid that it begs raucous laughter...instead of saying "You are presenting false information." PROVE IT.
Okay. You DO know what DNA and genome study is, don't you? You know that the only thing it can possibly do is compare one population to another and see what commonalities they have, right? And you know that in order to compare groups of people -- there needs to be, well, you know, groups to compare. The claim you are supporting says that there has been a comparison of Ashkenazi Jews to Khazars and they are found to be similar. Here's the problem -- THERE ARE NO KHAZARS TO COMPARE TO. There is no way to make a comparison because there are no surviving, definitive group of Khazars with which to make a comparison. Therefore any correlation built between the Ashkenazi Jews and the Khazars is unfounded.
The Arab/Palestinians have rights derived from their tenure in Palestine, does this info penetrate that dense grey matter yet?
Not arguing that. I consistently support the rights of Arab Palestinians due to their long tenure in the territory.
...by contrast the fictive claims of the Zio-trash have zero legal validity...
The Jewish people also have a long tenure in the territory. Nearly four thousand years worth. Longer, in point of fact, than the Arabs. So why wouldn't the Jewish people ALSO have rights?
Is it because they were forcibly removed? Is it because there are no "real" Jews left? Why would the Jewish people not ALSO have rights?
Okay you do understand that DNA can be extracted from skeletal remains correct? What you post above is mere opinion--and or propaganda...it has no scientific value...find someone better educated to explain that Elhaik doesn't engage in hypothesis or theories---he offers proof! If you incorrectly believe that Jews with zero genetic relation to the ancient tribes have 'rights to the lands of Palestine present proof, your opinion is irrelevant...
Two human skeletons which were considered in this work, were obtained from two Khazar burial mounds in southern Russian steppes. The mounds, or kurgans, were typical Khazarian mounds surrounded by shallow square ritual ditches. Both burials are described in the literature (Ilyin, 1995; Parusimov, 1998; Glebov & Ivanov, 2007; Batieva, 2007). Both burials, named Kuteiniki II (mound 2, burial 1) and Talov II (mound 2, burial 1), are located in the South-East of the Rostov region on the left bank of Don river, about 70 kilometers from each other. The first was excavated in 1994, the second in 2004. The first burial was robbed in the past. The human skeleton belonged to a male of 40+ years old, the human bones were moved by the robbers, and the original burial position was uncertain. The burial was dated by the end of the VII to the beginning of the VIII century CE. The DNA sample obtained from the burial was assigned by the index 1251. The second burial was not robbed and was completely preserved. The human skeleton belonged to a male of 35 - 45 years old, positioned stretched on its back, the skull to the West. The burial was dated by the second half of the VIII to the beginning of the IX century CE. The DNA sample obtained from the burial was assigned by the index 1986. In the first half of the IX century kurgans with square ditches were seized to appear. The archaeological culture vanished. It seems that Khazars left the lower Don steppes during that time period; thus, Kuteiniki and Talovo burials mark early Khazar and late Khazar times, respectively, of their presence in the Don steppes. The DNA in both cases was extracted from teeth of the ancient skeletons. The teeth were cleaned and ground in a vibration mill, the DNA was isolated by phenol extraction, and other routine procedures were employed for quantitation of the isolated DNA, such as the polymerase chain reaction. In both cases the Y-chromosomal haplogroup of the ancient Khazars was identified as R1a, and the primers specific to SNP mutations R1a-Z280 and R1a-Z93 revealed that the both samples showed negative Z280 and positive Z93 mutations. Thus, both ancient Khazars’ DNA was interpreted to be of the R1a-Z93 “signature”. This is a very rare SNP in present-day ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Poles and other Slavic male populations, approximately 50% of whom are estimated to carry the R1a haplogroup (
www.eupedia; Rozhanskii & Klyosov, 2012). On the other hand, R1a-Z93 is very common in present-day Turkic-speaking peoples such as Caucasian Karachaevo-Balkars, also Tatars, Bashkirs, Kirgiz, and other populations who apparently descended from Scythians, and have their common ancestors in the R1a-Z93 subclade dated back to 1500 - 2500 years ago (Klyosov & Rozhanskii, 2012; Klyosov & Saidov, 2015). In addition to their haplogroups and subclades, Y-chromosome haplotypes were determined in samples 1251 and 1986. In the 20 marker format (DYS 393, 390, 19, 391, 385a, 385b, 439, 389-1, 392, 389-2–DYS 458, 447, 437, 448, 449, GATA H4, 456, 576, 438, 635), their haplotypes were as follows: A. A
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Excavated DNA from Two Khazar Burials Anatole A. Klyosov1,2, Tatiana Faleeva3 1 The Academy of DNA Genealogy, Boston, USA 2 The Academy of DNA Genealogy, Moscow, Russia 3 The National Forensic Center, Rostov-on-Don, Russi