... they would be fighting each other.
Netanyahu's father hid his Askenazi Polish ancestry by changing his name from Mileikowsky.
"White" European Jews are of European origin. They are not directly genetically related to "brown" M-E Jews.
They became Jews by conversion and procreation.
There are brown Jews and there are white Jews. The brown Jews are M-E related, the others are not.
If Israeli Jews did not have an external threat they would be fighting each other.
Brown Jews, white Jews, Hasidic Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, religious Jews, secular Jews.
Quote:When Netanyahu's father immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, he hebraized his surname from "Mileikowsky" to "Netanyahu", meaning "God has given."
Quote:It is often used to identify Jews who are racially non-white, whose family origins are originally in African, Asian or Latin American countries, and to acknowledge a common experience for Jews who belong to racial, national, or geographic groups beyond white and Ashkenazi.
Quote:In the following millennia, Jewish diaspora communities coalesced into three major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (Western Europe), the Sephardim (Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim (Middle East and North Africa).
Quote:Ashkenazim differ from Sephardim in their pronunciation of Hebrew, in cultural traditions, in synagogue cantillation (chanting), in their widespread use of Yiddish (until the 20th century), and especially in synagogue liturgy.