What's with modern claims of ACTUALLY being all these ancient Near Eastern peoples from Iranians and Arabs? Like with the Elamites being Iranian, or the Akkadians being Kurdish?
>>18250713>Me ancestors wuz cursed and genocided for enslaving Jews and me celebrate their genocide in passover but fear not me still here descended from genocided people.God didn't say he genocided the Akkadians and Elamites even the Jews are still here.
>>18250713>Elamites being IranianThis is true>Akkadians being Kurdish?Kurds aren't even Semites lmao.
>>18250713Arab nationalists have deluded themselves into believing that somehow the Middle East was always majority Arab. But it wasn’t, the demographics of the Middle East just before the Arab conquests say otherwise:>Southern Mesopotamia was inhabited by a group called Chaldeans. They were culturally similar to their Babylonian forefathers, followed Christianity, and spoke Aramaic, which is not even in the same sub-category of Semitic languages as Arabic as Aramaic is a northwest Semitic language while Arabic is a central Semitic language. They absolutely weren’t Arab.>Northern Mesopotamia was inhabited by Assyrians (yes those Assyrians) who actually still exist today as a minority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_people). They are culturally similar to their ancient counterparts, follow Christianity, and speak Aramaic. They absolutely aren’t Arab.>The Levant was inhabited by a group called Syrians (completely different from modern Syrians btw). They were culturally similar to their Phoenician and Aramean forefathers, followed Christianity, and spoke Aramaic. They absolutely weren’t Arab.And that’s just the Fertile Crescent. There’s also Egypt which followed Christianity and spoke Coptic (the final stage of THE Egyptian language). Pre-Islamic and non-Arab Egyptians actually still exist today as a minority referred to as Copts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copts) who absolutely aren’t Arab.
>>18251096Chaldeans are not even native to mesopotamia
>>18250713Iranics have nothing to do with Near Easterners. Elamites aren't Near Eastern. Kurds especially have no links to any ancient group the region besides Cyrtians, who were not Near Eastern either. They were just a brigand population. Kurds are late arrivers and have high R1a. They're basically brown slavs.Arabs are the closest population to ancient Near Easterners, but even Arabs will deny this as it goes against their religion. Arabs continue the ancient near eastern tradition of decimating all steppejeets and churkas that try to enter their homeland, so that itself is testament to their nativity to the region. The fact that they're genetically and culturally the same should be proof enough that they are heirs to Assyria.>>18251108NTA but Chaldeans predate Mesopotamia as it is an Iranic geographic concept. Chaldean Assyrians are none the less native to Near East.
