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11.01.10, 07:44
Spekulacjom nie ma końca. Tym razem Jerusalem Post donosi o
prowadzonych w Izraelu badaniach nad tzw. profilem genetycznym
Pathanów z Malihabadu, w pobliżu Lakhnau, stolicy indyjskiego stanu
Uttar Pradeś.
Tamtejsi Pathanowie przynależą do rozgałęzionego na liczne lokalne
odłamy wielkiego pasztuńskiego klanu Afridich, zamieszkałego głównie
na pograniczu pakistańsko-afgańskim; Afridi przechowują w swej
tradycji podania wskazujące na ich pradawny związek z Izraelem.
Badania rozpoczęte obecnie w Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
w Hajfie mają na celu przetestowanie hipotezy o związkach
genetycznych Afridich z którymś z dziesięciu zaginionych plemion
Izraela.
Artykuł w JP ma intrygujący tytuł:
Are Taliban descendants of Israelites?
This intriguing
question has been asked by a variety of scholars, theologians,
anthropologists and pundits over the years, but has remained
somewhere between the realms of amateur speculation and serious
academic research.
But now, for the first time, the government has shown official
interest, with the Foreign Ministry providing a scholarship to an
Indian scientist to come to the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa and determine whether or not the tribe that
provides the hard core of todays Taliban has a blood link to any of
the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and specifically to the tribe of
Efraim.
Shahnaz Ali, a senior research fellow at the National Institute of
Immunohaematology, Mumbai, has joined the Technion to study the blood
samples that she collected from Afridi Pathans in Malihabad, in the
Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh state, India, to check their putative
Israelite origin.
Kwestia pochodzenia Afridich w samych Indiach nie wzbudza specjalnych
emocji, była jednak poruszana wielokrotnie w izraelskich mediach.
Na zakończenie artykułu w Arutz Sheva ('I Love Israel - My
Forefathers Were Probably Jews') indyjski znawca zagadnienia dr
Navras Jaat Aafreedi powiada:
Would
the time for repatriation of the bellicose and unruly Afridi tribe to
Israel ever come? Not today, and not tomorrow, but it is possible.
During his recent trip to London, Rabbi Eliyahu Avichail met two
Afridi Pathan families who had fled their country during the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan. They spoke about their desire to embrace
Judaism, the faith of their supposed ancestors,” Dr. Aafreedi says.
Tu blog Aafridiego:
navrasaafreedi.blogspot.com/search/label/English
Ale dawniejszy (sprzed 3 lat) artykuł w Jerusalem Post (Researcher
claims proof of tribe of Ephraim in India) kończy się raczej
pesymistycznym stwierdzeniem: nie ma czegoś takiego jak żydowskie
DNA.
There are some
who doubt a genetic connection could provide genuine proof of Jewish
lineage.
There's no such thing as Jewish DNA, said Post contributor
Hillel Halkin, author of Across the Sabbath River: In Search of a
Lost Tribe of Israel, which discusses the issue of an ancient
Israelite migration to India. There is a [genetic] pattern which is
very common in the Middle East, and 40% of Jews worldwide have it.
But many non-Jews and people in the Middle East have it also, he
said.