A Space Well Watched

On 4th August 2009, I wrote:

Oh, well, I suppose that the remaining Jews in Israel have to go somewhere, and there are really only the Occupied Territories left. If you want a Jewish State, then you have to go to Judea – the effectively self-governing Haredi parts of Jerusalem and outposts on the West Bank, maintained most generously by the State of Israel but so hostile to it as to use force against its teenage conscripts.

In Israel, by contrast, the emphasis long ago shifted from any attempt at a Jewish majority to the hysterical pursuit of a merely non-Arab one. Russians who refuse to eat kosher food, and who insist on taking their IDF oaths on the New Testament alone. Russian Nazis. East Africans who have constructed a religion based on the Old Testament brought by Christian missionaries. Peruvian Indians. Anyone. Absolutely anyone at all. Even the Pashtun are being whispered about as a “Lost Tribe”. They are certainly not Arabs, so watch that space.

And now, see here.

The Israeli and Indian scholars have the very best of motives: they find academically interesting the Pashtuns' perfectly plausible belief in their own Israelite ancestry. But ... well, we all know "but" what.