The French are Anatolian Neolithic Farmer: 59.0% European Hunter-Gatherer: 31.0% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer: 10.0% (French are a supermajority Middle Eastern).
The Persians are Zagros Neolithic Farmer: 36.8% Anatolian Neolithic Farmer: 28.0% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer: 14.2% Natufian Hunter-Gatherer: 9.0% European Hunter-Gatherer: 8.8% Ancient Ancestral South Indian: 1.6%Baikal Hunter-Gatherer: 1.4% Jomon Hunter-Gatherer: 0.2% (very mixed).
Peninsular Arab DNA from Saudi looks like this: Natufian Hunter-Gatherer: 67.0% Zagros Neolithic Farmer: 21.2% Anatolian Neolithic Farmer: 7.6% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer: 4.2%.
However, Palestinian Christians DNA looks like this: Anatolian Neolithic Farmer: 41.8% Natufian Hunter-Gatherer: 24.8% Zagros Neolithic Farmer: 23.2% Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer: 10.2%.
That is very very different. If the Palestinians were Arab, we would expect their Natufian to be around 67%, but it is not, instead it is below 25%. Palestinian Christians are clearly not ethnically Arab.
No such thing as a Palestinian. Do we really need this “lesson”.
I would say that they are probably Jews that were forcibly converted.
Informative. Thanks for posting.
May be a bit of sophistry here. The Jews are descended from Abraham, who was born in Ur of Chaldea, which is near the Mesopotamian river in Iraq. So stands to reason there would be some genetic links here and there between Arabs and Jews, Ishmael and Isaac.
They don’t look like Jews. They look like crazy Arab muslims. They act like them too, which is the whole problem.
What differentiated the Canaanites from the Israelites other than religion? Jacob's sons must have married local women for the most part (except for Joseph).
The Samaritans were mostly descended from the Ten Northern Tribes (but the Assyrians seem to have settled some Mesopotamians among them--but told them to learn the religion of the native population). How does modern Samaritan DNA compare to Jewish DNA?
In the early medieval period, before the Arab conquest, the population seems to have been mostly Christian (with some Samaritans and some Jews)...these people were probably a mix of Israelite, Canaanite, Philistine and Greek ancestry. The later "Palestinian Arab" population would be mostly descended from those who were there in the 7th century since Arabia didn't have that big a population and there were more attractive places for Arabs to settle.
Some Lebanese are descended from Crusader ("Frank") ancestors. Jerusalem historically had an Armenian quarter in the Old City.
Very interesting article. It’s fascinating what they can find out with genetics nowadays. I would love to see mine but don’t trust the companies doing it to keep it private.