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The Times of Israel, an independent Israeli newspaper
that counts among its staff a number of former reporters for the Israeli
daily Ha’aretz, published a fascinating but largely overlooked story
datelined Jerusalem and Zhitomir, Ukraine, March 16, 2014, and which was
written by its respective Russian and Ukrainian correspondents, Hirsh
Ostropoler and I. Z. Grosser-Spass, citing a secret report provided to
the Israeli government. The report, written by a select panel of
scholars of Jewish history drawn from academia and other research
centers, concluded that that European Jews are in fact descended from
Khazars, a war-like Mongol-Tatar group that ruled over Ukraine and
southern Russia, which mass-converted to Judaism in the eighth century
AD.
Zionists have long argued that the land claimed by Israel
was the biblical birthright of the Jewish people who were forced from
the land in a so-called “diaspora” after repeated conquests by various
empires. Proof that Ashkenazi Jews, which make up a majority of the
Israeli Jewish population, have no historical link to Palestine would
call into question the entire premise of Israel as the historical
“5,000-year old” homeland of the Jewish people.
The Israeli journalists noted that any conversation of the
Khazars and modern Israel has always been met with disdain by Israeli
leaders. They quote Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir as once saying,
“Khazar, Schmazar. There is no Khazar people. I knew no Khazars. In
Kiev. Or Milwaukee. Show me these Khazars of whom you speak”. DNA proof
that a migratory Khazar population from Europe is now claiming ancient
roots in Palestine largely eliminates Zionist claims to the region.
The evidence that eastern and central European Jews have no
historical claim to Palestine has resulted in a flurry of activity in
Israel and abroad. The Israeli Knesset will soon vote on a bill passed
by the Israeli Cabinet that legalizes Israel as a Jewish “national
state”. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who read the secret
report on the Khazars, has declared that “Israel is the Jewish,
nationalist state for the Jewish people”. With the Ashkenazi claims to
Israel tenuous, at best, Netanyahu, his Likud Party, and his Jewish
Orthodox and West Bank settler party allies have no other choice but to
aggressively stake their nationalist claims to not only Israel but also
to the West Bank – which the nationalists refer to as “Judea and
Samaria”.
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