While modern Palestinian Arabs share significant Bronze Age Levantine DNA with Jewish populations in both Israel and the diaspora, their genetic and cultural makeup is marked as coming from Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and the broader Middle East over the last millennium. Consequently, the narrative of the region is a tapestry of two distinct heritages: an enduring, three-thousand-year Jewish religious and historic bond, side-by-side with a more recent Palestinian Arab demographic whose presence springs from the surrounding Arab world.

The historical landscape of the Middle East presents a striking contrast between cultural continuity and civilization-al disappearance. A unique aspect of Jewish history is the preservation of a three-thousand-year-old........

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