According to the American Jewish Committee archives, 97% of the
Jews of the world were the Ashkenazi in 1939, and 2% from the
Middle Eastern countries. But a huge percentage of the Jewish
population of the Middle East were living in Morocco, Tunisia,
Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, and they were the descendants of the
Iberian Jews who fled Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1496.
Therefore, the Jews of the Middle East are most definitely less
than 1%. The people of the Middle East did not know the European
Jews because they never met because they lived thousands of miles
apart. The first time that the Middle East had any Jews was when
they arrived in 1882 claiming to be the Hebrews coming home except
to face huge humiliation when DNA arrived and confirmed that the
European Jews were actually 100% European.
