Carol:

You went a long way around the bush to beat yourself up. Your assertion without argument that Ashkenazim and Sephardim are not genetically related to Israelites is precisely the kind of thing you argue by linkage, where you link to rather outlandish partisans. They don't know what they're talking about, but they say it anyway. They are not state-of-the-art scientists nor historians, they are fools with theories. But they say it in English, you link to them, and act as if you've made an argument because you have 'sources'. Thus your judgement comes into question.

Israel as an independent country has a right to defend itself. That is not linked to anything else. It stands by itself. If you don't believe it you have no problem with me, you have a problem with the concept of nationhood. As to whether or not one of the smallest nations in the Mideast is trying to aggrandize an empire (as opposed to defending its borders) I think your interpretation is severely skewed.