[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] 9/11 Truth, The Elephant in the Room video ....

[Carl G. Estabrook]

David, have you followed the controversy occasioned by Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People" (Verso, 2010)?

What's your take on it? --CGE
  

On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:05 PM, David Gehrig <david-cu at nukulele.org> wrote:

> Does it prove he's wrong? No, it just makes it much more likely. In a larger sense, it means that the situation has gone from "all papers fail to support the Khazar replacement theory" to "all papers but one fail to support the Khazar replacement theory." That's enough to hang your hat on if you're very keen to call the Jews en masse impostors. Which you are. And which the white supremacist Christian Identity movement was, back in the 1980s, being the first time I heard the Khazar theory. But one outlier not enough to overturn scientific consensus. And we'll have to see what the scientific reaction to the paper is.
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> The general consensus as I understand it is that there is a recognized Khazar contribution to the collective Jewish gene pool, in terms of statistical correlation. But there is also strong genetic evidence that the Jews per se are indeed descended from the Mideast, not the Asian steppes. One doesn't preclude the other. I'd give citations, but you won't read them.
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> The "cui bono" test -- that's the one that says: if my neighbor gets hit by lightning and has willed me his car, then we can conclude that because I got the car, I therefore caused the lightning. Cui bono, man, cui bono. Open and shut case.
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