Middle-Eastern Jews are less intelligent than Europeans for example, but more intelligent than Middle Easterners.
My initial comment only spoke to the fact that the State of Israel did not exist until 140 years after the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
To your comment, the modern State of Israel is dominated by Diaspora/Commercial "jews" who have little, if any, actual ties to the region of Jewish Palestine. The majority of them are European. Jews with actual ties to the region tend to be from the Haredi sects and, by and large, oppose the increasingly secularist State of Israel and "zionism" and are treated even worse than the West Bank occupiers. You rarely hear much about them.
[I]t is difficult to view the State of Israel today as being entirely native to the region.
While most of the secularist/orthodox slant will tell you - and this is not without merit - that the modern State of Israel owes its existence to and takes its legitimacy from the fact that Jews from all parts of the world uprooted themselves from their Diaspora homelands and came to region in the mid-1800s, buying land on a massive scale and developing it with the stated goal of creating a "national homeland for the jewish people", deep down they believe that the land is theirs by birthright as the "chosen" people of lore.
This puts them in conflict with the Haredi sects who believe that the jewish people lost their right to the so-called "promised land" and that attempts to reestablish it in modern times are a massive sacrilege.
My initial comment only spoke to the fact that the State of Israel did not exist until 140 years after the end of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
To your comment, the modern State of Israel is dominated by Diaspora/Commercial "jews" who have little, if any, actual ties to the region of Jewish Palestine. The majority of them are European. Jews with actual ties to the region tend to be from the Haredi sects and, by and large, oppose the increasingly secularist State of Israel and "zionism" and are treated even worse than the West Bank occupiers. You rarely hear much about them.
While most of the secularist/orthodox slant will tell you - and this is not without merit - that the modern State of Israel owes its existence to and takes its legitimacy from the fact that Jews from all parts of the world uprooted themselves from their Diaspora homelands and came to region in the mid-1800s, buying land on a massive scale and developing it with the stated goal of creating a "national homeland for the jewish people", deep down they believe that the land is theirs by birthright as the "chosen" people of lore.
This puts them in conflict with the Haredi sects who believe that the jewish people lost their right to the so-called "promised land" and that attempts to reestablish it in modern times are a massive sacrilege.