text: Jews living for hundreds of years among Christians who generally despised them, who lived in separate communities, who did not seek converts and could expect little success given the disdain, oppression and physical danger Jews were all too often subject to managed to completely dilute the Semitic genetic markers they left Palestine with mostly through Christian men marrying Jewish women even though Judaism is passed down through the mother?
  I see studies you believe prove your claim.  I see studies that disprove it.
  The loss of a structure and of a "priesthood" destroyed by an invader doesn't invalidate a historic claim to land by people whose ancestors were forcibly removed from it.
  Zionism isn't blameless, threats of annihilation can distort reactions.
  The current Palestinian problem was caused by Arabs who dropped refugees into camps, left them to rot and use as anti-Israel propaganda and encouraged destroying Israel.
  The Dunthorpe Strategy: If you can't beat 'em deny they exist.