Kalau berita ini benar, artinya kita sdh membina hubungan dengan Israel secara tdk langsung ya ?
--- In [email protected], "sunny" <am...@...> wrote: > > http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339436797&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull > > Jan 9, 2010 22:22 | Updated Jan 10, 2010 9:59 > Are Taliban descendants of Israelites? > By AMIR MIZROCH > > Are the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan descendants of an Israelite tribe > that migrated across Asia after it was exiled over 2,700 years ago? > > > A former Taliban militant covers his face during a ceremony in which weapons > were handed over to the Afghan government in the city of Herat province west > of Kabul, Afghanistan. > Photo: AP [file] > > > 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 today's 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. > > > Shahnaz, an expert in DNA profiling and population genetics, will be > supervised by Prof. Karl Skorecki, director of Nephrology and Molecular > Medicine at the Technion Faculty of Medicine. Skorecki is famous for his > breakthrough work on Jewish genetic research. > Shahnaz's research, which is expected to last anywhere between three months > and a year, will be supported by a scholarship from the Foreign Ministry for > the 2009-2010 academic year. > > Shahnaz, who is staying in Haifa for the duration of her research, earlier > worked at the prestigious Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata > (formerly Calcutta). While the scholarship only provides her with $600 per > month (excluding travel to and from India), her work will be followed closely > by many here and abroad. > > While the vast majority of Afghan Taliban are Pashtun, the largest ethnic > group in Afghanistan, the theory that they are descendants of the Afridi > Pathans is widespread in the area. The theory is based on a variety of > ancient historical texts and oral traditions of the Pashtun people > themselves, but no scientific studies by any accredited organizations have > upheld the claim. It continues to be believed by many Pashtuns, and has found > advocates among some contemporary Muslim and (to a lesser extent) Jewish > scholars. > > Official confirmation of the link by the Technion would lend immense weight > to the argument. Afridi Pathans have an age-old tradition of Israelite > origin, which finds mention in texts dating from the 10th century to the > present day, written by Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars. > > According to some researchers, members of the tribe still observe many > Israelite customs in their native places in eastern Afghanistan and in the > federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan's North West Frontier > Province, though they have lost all these traditions of theirs in India. In > Afghanistan and Pakistan they are all Muslim today and form the core of the > Taliban. > > In his 1957 The Exiled and the Redeemed, Itzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel's second > president, wrote that Hebrew migrations into Afghanistan began "with a > sprinkling of exiles from Samaria who had been transplanted there by > Shalmaneser, king of Assyria (719 BC)." > > Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, when asked about his ancestors, > claimed that the royal family descended from the tribe of Benjamin. > > On the academic level, British researcher Dr. Theodore Parfitt has been > conducting research on genetic effects and chromosome Y among numerous tribes > around the world. In India he is assisted by a young researcher from the > University of Lucknow - Dr. Navras Afreedi - who claims that his ancestors > were Afreedi, descendants of the tribe of Efraim, and that many of the > Pathans and other tribes are descendants of the Ten Tribes. Afreedi did his > post-doctoral work at Tel Aviv University, titled "Indian Jewry and the > Self-professed Lost Tribes of Israel in India." > > Shahnaz's genetic research would examine Navras's theory that Afridi Pathans > are descendants of the tribe of Ephraim, which was exiled in 721 BCE. The > research uses DNA analysis to trace shared ancestries and origins of certain > populations of interest in the eastern provinces of India, to map the cause > of a certain disorder that is very frequent in the large populations of those > provinces, and to see if the DNA mutations originate in a certain "founder > event." > > Shahnaz traveled to Malihabad and collected blood samples from the tribal > population there. It is thought that the Afridi Pathans migrated from the > border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, areas that are now "ground zero" in the > war on terror. Shahnaz herself, while aware of the possible connection, is > cautious to jump to conclusions. > > "The research itself will take some three months, and after that we'll see > what happens. It could take a huge amount of time to analyze all the data, as > it was taken from tribal people in India, and we will need to examine how > much the men from this tribe mixed in with the local population," she said. > > Navras welcomed Shahnaz's research grant. "It's a great news that now my > research would be analyzed scientifically," he said on his blog. > > "I don't know what would be the outcome of the DNA analysis, but it would > provide us a direction to resolve the complex issue. I also hope that such > effort will have positive ramifications and will bring the Muslims and Jews > close and enable them to forget historical animosity," Navras wrote. > > RELATED > a.. Read Amir Mizroch's blog > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
