tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post531014001101238509..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Of Kurdish Jews and koobe dumplingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-10731789555400867932012-02-04T01:42:06.317+00:002012-02-04T01:42:06.317+00:00Hatra, Arabic Al-Ḥaḍr, The sun temple in the ruin...Hatra, Arabic Al-Ḥaḍr, The sun temple in the ruined city of Hatra, Iraq. [Credit: Christine Osborne—Corbis]<br />[Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]ruined city located in the Al-Jazīrah region of present-day northern Iraq, 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Baghdad and 68 miles (110 km) southwest of Mosul. A religious and trading centre of the Parthian empire, it flourished during the 1st and 2nd centuries bc. The city survived several invasions before being razed in ad 241. It is an important archaeological site with well-preserved ruins.<br /><br />Hatra was probably founded in the 3rd or 2nd century bc, under the Seleucid kingdom. It rose to prominence as the capital of Araba, a small semiautonomous state under Parthian influence. Because of its strategic position along caravan trade routes, the town prospered and became an important religious centre. In the 1st and 2nd centuries ad, Hatra was ruled by a dynasty of Arabian princes whose written language was Aramaic, and it became known as Beit ʾElāhāʾ (“House of God”), a reference to the city’s numerous temples. Among the gods honoured were the Sumero-Akkadian god Nergal, Hermes (Greek), Atargatis (Aramean), and al-Lāt and Shāmiyyah (Arabian), along with Shamash, the Mesopotamian sun god. Built in a circular plan of military tradition, Hatra was able to turn back many attacks, including sieges by Roman forces in 116/117 (led by the emperor Trajan) and 198/199 (under the emperor Septimius Severus). About ad 240, however, the city fell to Shāpūr I (reigned c. 240–272), the ruler of the Persian Sāsānian dynasty, and was destroyed. According to legend, al-Naḍīrah, the daughter of the king of Hatra, betrayed the city and permitted Shāpūr to conquer it, slay the king, and later marry her. (Tradition also holds that Shāpūr soon killed his bride, however.)<br />http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/256881/HatraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-13090716593427138932012-02-03T07:45:53.923+00:002012-02-03T07:45:53.923+00:00The Kurds and Arabs of Mesopotamia have interacted...The Kurds and Arabs of Mesopotamia have interacted and intermarried for well over a millennium. Modern genetic studies indicate that Iraqi Arabs and Kurds are very closely related.[23][24] Arabic and Kurdish are Iraq's national languages. wikipediaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-79118915168610126542012-02-03T07:44:41.922+00:002012-02-03T07:44:41.922+00:00http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/pZgSGHjypVE/0.jpg
http://ww...http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/pZgSGHjypVE/0.jpg<br />http://www.corbisimages.com/images/42-15828111.jpg?size=67&uid=8c6daec2-4372-441e-97b7-fc0f3acd8def iraqi kurds many have levant features <br />how come u guys also fail to mention the ancient arab kingdom of norther iraq Hatra(Hadr)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-87887521300206154222012-02-03T07:41:49.407+00:002012-02-03T07:41:49.407+00:00Y-DNA Haplogroups in Iraqi Kurdistan
(J2 - 28....Y-DNA Haplogroups in Iraqi Kurdistan<br /><br /> <br /><br />(J2 - 28.4% semitic)<br /><br />R1b - 16.8%<br /><br />I - 16.8%<br /><br />R1a - 11.6%<br /><br />(J1 - 11.6% semitic)<br /><br />E1b1b - 7.4%<br /><br />G - 4.2%<br /><br />T - 3.2<br />a total j of 40% <br />this has nothing to do with with being jewishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-85748261193607413292012-02-03T07:30:06.025+00:002012-02-03T07:30:06.025+00:00Many Kurds have the "Jewish" Cohen Modal...Many Kurds have the "Jewish" Cohen Modal Haplotype<br /><br />In the 1990s, a team of scientists (including the geneticist Michael Hammer, the nephrologist Karl Skorecki, and their colleagues in England) discovered the existence of a haplotype which they termed the "Cohen modal haplotype" (abbreviated as CMH). Cohen is the Hebrew word for "priest", and designates descendants of Judean priests from two thousand years ago. Initial research indicated that while only about 3 percent of general Jews have this haplotype, 45 percent of Ashkenazic Cohens have it, while 56 percent of Sephardic Cohens have it. David Goldstein, an evolutionary geneticist at Oxford University, said: "It looks like this chromosomal type was a constituent of the ancestral Hebrew population." Some Jewish rabbis used the Cohen study to argue that all Cohens with the CMH had descended from Aaron, a High Priest who lived about 3500 years ago, as the Torah claimed. Shortly after, it was determined that 53 percent of the Buba clan of the Lemba people of southern Africa have the CMH, compared to 9 percent of non-Buba Lembas. The Lembas claim descent from ancient Israelites, and they follow certain Jewish practices such as circumcision and refraining from eating pork, and for many geneticists and historians the genetic evidence seemed to verify their claim.<br /><br />However, it soon became apparent that the CMH is not specific to Jews or descendants of Jews. In a 1998 article in Science News, Dr. Skorecki indicated (in an interview) that some non-Jews also possess the Cohen markers, and that the markers are therefore not "unique or special".(((((( The CMH is very common among Iraqi Kurds, according to a 1999 study by C. Brinkmann et al.)))))))))) And in her 2001 article, Oppenheim wrote: "The dominant haplotype of the Muslim Kurds (haplotype 114) was only one microsatellite-mutation step apart from the CMH..." (Oppenheim 2001, page 1100). Furthermore, the CMH is also found among some Armenians, according to Dr. Levon Yepiskoposyan (Head of the Institute of Man in Yerevan, Armenia), who has studied genetics for many years. Dr. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin wrote: "The suggestion that the 'Cohen modal haplotype' is a signature haplotype for the ancient Hebrew population is also not supported by data from other populations." (Zoossmann-Diskin 2000, page 156).<br /><br />In short, the CMH is a genetic marker from the northern Middle East which is not unique to Jews. However, its existence among many Kurds and Armenians, as well as some Italians and Hungarians, would seem to support the overall contention that Kurds and Armenians are the close relatives of modern Jews and that the majority of today's Jews have paternal ancestry from the northeastern Mediterranean region.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-50373141580046259262012-02-03T07:28:34.360+00:002012-02-03T07:28:34.360+00:00how u guys forget to mention the dominant halo typ...how u guys forget to mention the dominant halo type of the muslim kurds is eu9(J2 semitic)and how come you fail to mention thismedes(kurds) & chaldeans (Prophet Abraham PBH was chaldean)<br /><br /><br />Nebuchadnezzar II was the eldest son, and successor, of Nabopolassar, who delivered Babylon from its dependence on Assyria and laid Nineveh in ruins. According to Berossus, some years before he became king of Babylon, ((((Nebuchadnezzar II married Amytis of Media, the daughter or granddaughter of Cyaxares, king of the Medes, and thus the Median and Babylonian dynasties were united.)))))) There are also conflicting accounts of Nitocris of Babylon either being his wife or daughter. Nabopolassar was intent on annexing the western provinces of Syria from Necho II (who was still hoping to restore Assyrian power), and to this end dispatched his son westward with a powerful army. In the ensuing Battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, the Egyptian army was defeated and driven back, and Syria and Phoenicia were brought under the control of Babylon. Nabopolassar died in August of that year, and Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon to ascend to the throne.<br /><br />After the defeat of the Cimmerians and Scythians,(((( all of Nebuchadnezzar's expeditions were directed westwards, although the powerful Median empire lay to the north. Nebuchadnezzar's political marriage to Amytis of Media, the daughter of the Median king, had ensured peace between the two empires.))))))))))))))<br /><br /> from wikipdeia<br /><br /> many iraqi kurds have the cmh it is not specific to being jewishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com