Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese

If a common heritage conferred peace, then perhaps the long history of conflict in the Middle East would have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new scientific study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.
"Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham," says Harry Ostrer, M.D., Director of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, an author of the new study by an international team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Israel. "And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years," he says.
The researchers analyzed the Y chromosome, which is usually passed unchanged from father to son, of more than 1,000 men worldwide. Throughout human history, alterations have occurred in the sequence of chemical bases that make up the DNA in this so-called male chromosome, leaving variations that can be pinpointed with modern genetic techniques. Related populations carry the same specific variations. In this way, scientists can track descendants of large populations and determine their common ancestors.
Specific regions of the Y chromosome were analyzed in 1,371 men from 29 worldwide populations, including Jews and non-Jews from the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Europe.
The study, published in the May 9 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that Jewish men shared a common set of genetic signatures with non-Jews from the Middle East, including Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese, and these signatures diverged significantly from non-Jewish men outside of this region. Consequently, Jews and Arabs share a common ancestor and are more closely related to one another than to non-Jews from other areas of the world.
The study also revealed that despite the complex history of Jewish migration in the Diaspora (the time since 556 B.C. when Jews migrated out of Palestine), Jewish communities have generally not intermixed with non-Jewish populations. If they had, then Jewish men from different regions of the world would not share the same genetic signatures in their Y chromosome.
"Because ancient Jewish law states that Jewish religious affiliation is assigned maternally, our study afforded the opportunity to assess the contribution of non-Jewish men to present-day Jewish genetic diversity," says Michael Hammer, Ph.D., from the University of Arizona, Tucson, who is the lead author of the new study. "It was surprising to see how significant the Middle Eastern genetic signal was in Jewish men from different communities in the Diaspora," he says.

The authors of this study are:
Dr. Ostrer from NYU School of Medicine;
Michael F. Hammer, Alan J. Redd, Elizabeth T. Wood, M. Roxane Bonner, Hamdi Jarjanazil, and Tanya Karafet from the University of Arizona, Tucson; Silvana Santachlara-Benerecetti, University of Pavia, Italy; Ariella Oppenheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Mark A. Jobling, University of Leicester, England; Trefor Jenkins, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Batsheva Bonne-Tamar, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

That surely is of interest . Perhaps that is why they fight like " brother and sister" saying things and threats they do not mean and say bad things to each other because they know deep inside just like brother to sister , they say those bad things because they can " get away with it " just like " brother and sisters" do .

Ofcourse it becomes deadly when 'brother and sister " play with knives and guns and more.

In the " whole picture " of life here on Earth l can easilly see how we are all 'related' however in the Arab, Palestine , Jewish reality it seems slightly surprising to me that they are genetically connected.
Good stuff .Thanks.

I always accepted the fact that they were all kin to each other in some way. As we all are, probably. Even more so they, though, they are all Gods people. His first people I think. Yes, they do fight like step brothers, half brothers, where some are more favored by the father than the other. There is always hate and eventually violence in a family where some are favored more than others. I know. My dad was the only parent I had who showed me love, but I wasn't his favorite, my youngest sister was his favorit child. It always hurt to see that when it came down to it really, she was his pick every time. So I know how things like that can be. I have three brothers and three sisters, and two step brothers from my dads first marriage, and my step brothers were always so jealous of our dad affection for us children of his second marriage. My othest step brother showed hs hate towards us the most. Actually getting pretty violent with us...

Exactly, they have the same roots or we can say that they are water shoots of the same fountain.

Abraham(pbuh) had 2 sons , 1 Ismail(pbuh) and 2. Isaac(pbuh)

All the jews came from the linage of Jacob(Isreal) son of Isaac who was also known as the fathers of the children of Isreal(jews) and Ismail the eldest son of Abraham(pbuh) became the father of Arabs since all the Arabs came from the linage of Ismail(pbuh).


If Ismail(pbuh) and Isaac(pbuh) are brothers, then definitely generations coming from their linage will also have blood relations with each other and they will be cousins(half brothers) to each other.

This is why their languages (Arabic and Hebrew) although different in writing but similar in sounds and both Arabic and Hebrew are sister languages.

Jews say "Shalom Aalaikum" which means in Hebrew "Peace be upon you".

Arabs say " Asalam Aalaikum" which means in Arabic "Peace be upon you".

Now you can see the similarity between them.

Regards,

Another evidence for them is the similarities between their cultures and life style. They eat similar kinds of food and have almost similar kind of behaviour and attitude. But definitely difference in Judaism and Islam have played an important part in their lives.