If you believe that the Ashkenazi is part of our region the Middle East, it means that you suffer from delusion – there is no other way to explain why a completely foreign white European Jews would believe that their families originated from the Middle East except for delusion.
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Delusion: A rigid system of beliefs with which a person is preoccupied and to which the person firmly holds, despite the logical absurdity of the beliefs and a lack of supporting evidence.