Remind me how exactly are the Ashkenazi connected to the Middle East and the answer is that the Middle East is from where their religion originated just like it is for the Germans or the French or the Russians. But the Ashkenazi would like to tell you a ridiculous fiction that they are not European but the Hebrews coming home to Palestine – and you look at their faces and you begin to wonder how a people who look so European could claim to originate from the Middle East?