tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post8907696842549459967..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: On the supposed 'whiteness' of Israeli JewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-17766790886095594392013-05-17T16:38:00.923+01:002013-05-17T16:38:00.923+01:00Cosmic is right. The Mediterranean Sea does not di...Cosmic is right. The Mediterranean Sea does not divide one race from another or one skin color from another. Migration around the sea was going on from the early First Millenium BCE, if not before. Phoenicians especially were migrating to Greece, to Ionia and Caria [now southwestern Turkey], to Spain, Sardinia, Carthage [now Tunisia], etc. Likewise, Greeks migrated to Egypt where they established the city of Naucratis as a trading post in the late seventh or early sixth century BCE. Jews too migrated with their Phoenician neighbors. <br />The first Jews to be allowed into Germany, to migrate across the Rhine [815 CE], that is, the first Ashkenazim, came from northern France [also descended from migrants] but mostly from Italy, including Sicily and southern Italy which were in contact with the Jews in Israel, and at first used the Talmud Yerushalmi, in later centuries going over to the Babylonian Talmud. Jews in Germany migrated eastwards from Germany in the later Middle Ages as Jews were expelled from certain Germanic territories/states. Some of this info is in works by Avraham Grossman.Eliyahu m'Tsiyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07973268399414290195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-3037508501196495462013-05-14T14:55:54.516+01:002013-05-14T14:55:54.516+01:00European Jews are not Europeans in the ethnic sens...European Jews are not Europeans in the ethnic sense. They are also the descendants of Jews that lived in the land of Israel. What's more, many of the Ashkenzim are descendants of Sephardim that fled from Spain during and after the inquisition. Cosmic Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13880746347107372827noreply@blogger.com