It is very hard for me to understand why a European people, the Ashkenazi, like to claim to be from the Middle East and yet they are 100% alien to the Middle East in every way. Before 1882 when these Europeans claimed that they were coming home to Palestine, there was never a time that they had ever set foot anywhere in the Middle East. It is extremely humiliating and degrading for any group of people to distance themselves from their true ancestors and replace them with fictional-biblical characters.