[wagglebee]

This is the key phrase: "a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East". This is a thinly-veiled liberal attempt to do two things: 1. Dispute the Judeo-Christian tradition of man's origins and 2. To promote the idea that the Europeans (no doubt white, capitalistic, racist, war-mongering homophobes) were far less advanced that the migrants from the Middle East, who I'm sure the liberals think saved the Europeans from starvation and ruin (never mind that until the discovery of oil the Middle Easterners were still living the way they did under the Romans). But I'm sure in their mind these peace-loving Islamics will again save Western civilization as soon as their "elite republican guard" decimates the quagmired Americans or we get "bogged down in another 'brutal' Afghan winter."

[cyborg]

reading a bit much into it?

[blam]

"This is the key phrase: "a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from the Middle East". "

You're confusing the present racial distribution of the Middle East with that of the past. The racial make-up was different thousands of years ago. For example, I suspect the Caananites were Proto-Celtics. Goliath was a big Celtic guy ?

[thedugal]

The "migrants" from the middle east were the Celts.

[A. Pole]

Well the other Middle Easterners - Semites came from the area of Yemen and south of Saudi Arabia. There were various peoples in the Middle East - Egyptian, Sumerians and Indo-Europeans in Asia Minor/Anatolia and Persia.