They claim that they used to live there 2000 years ago and then the Romans came along and threw them out of the land! But there is no proof that they could provide that they used to live there because nothing about the European Jews is Middle Eastern: not their appearance because they resemble the Germans, not their food which are completely alien to the people of the Middle East, not their language Yiddish which no people of the Middle East knew about, they have got their very own 40 genetic illnesses and 6 mental illnesses. Absolutely nothing about the European Jews is Middle Eastern but for them to admit it would be very difficult because then they would have to explain how are they connected to Palestine?