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This is worthy of some reply. In fact, it's quite significant that such an off-topic one line in my message got such attention, isn't it?
Well, first, the Arabs, unlike you claim, still with all due respect, actually have nothing to do with this Khazar question--or they'd have invested it much more efficiently, at least these days. Instead, it's an army of researchers, historians and anthropologists, from everywhere in the world, including Israel, working on this most controversial, and obscure, history, which is in fact always the case, I wonder, whenever Jews are involved.
Second, I usually, and humbly, care to be scientific and objective, even in my off-topic innuendoes, and I therefore first said only "suspected," as science and history didn't yet determine any truth in this regard. Yet, it's not at all, excuse me, a mere "ludicrous claim." On the contrary, an increasing number of Jews do trace back their origins and simply announce themselves, with no sense of guilt or shame, they could be originally Khazarians. Ehud Ya'ari, for example, a top Israeli journalist who produced the 1997 documentary Memlekhet ha-Kuzarim, is simply one of them. Please consider his following words as quoted by Michael Ajzenstadt in The Jerusalem Post:
"As a child I heard that our family has some Khazarian blood and for 30 years now I have been trying to find information about this exciting subject.... [I am] a soldier in the last battle of the Khazar kingdom, a battle for the right to be remembered.... And finally I would like to secure funds to continue excavations in several places, which looked quite promising. My sexiest dream is to find the actual tomb of one of the Khazar kings. I believe that if we achieve that it will be as important at least as the discovery of Troy or of the treasures of the Pharaohs in the Pyramids."
[Michael Ajzenstadt, "An Incredible Journey to the Lost Empire of the Khazars," The Jerusalem Post, March 17, 1997, page 5]
In fact, I don't think I'm qualified to further discuss this issue in details. Still, I'd like to have a look with you on some scholarly research at this point.
First, and in reply to, "... it was in 1948 that muslim countries expelled their Jews. These exiles now make up 60% of the population of Israel."
Those were the Jews of the Mediterranean cost, especially of Egypt and Morocco. But those in particular, 60% of the population of Israel, are likely to be Khazarians, according to Richard Haase:
"The Khazar Jewish kingdom was a fascinating episode in Russian Jewish History.... The Jews dispersed into Russia, Armenia, Byzantium, and *the Mediterranean coast*. It is likely that many of the Jews of these regions are descended from Khazar refugees."
[Richard Haase, Jewish Regional Cooking (Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, 1985), page 56]
Thus, you only confirm my "ludicrous claim" by this 60% information. However, your information aside, they are still "suspected" to be Khazarians, as we read clear in Arthur Koestle's The Thirteenth Tribe:
"The numerical ratio of the Khazar to the Semitic and other contributions is impossible to establish. But the cumulative evidence makes one inclined to agree with the consensus of Polish historians that 'in earlier times the main bulk originated from the Khazar country'; and that, accordingly, the Khazar contribution to the genetic make-up of the Jews must be substantial, and in all likelihood dominant."
[Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage (London: Hutchinson, 1976 and New York, NY: Random House, 1976), page 180]
In a slight note, Judaism in general sounds to be Khazarian now in some other location:
"There is little reason to doubt that Jews had lived in Poland from the earliest times, and that Judaism, *as preserved by the descendants of the ancient Chazar kingdom in the southeast*, had actually antedated Christianity."
[Norman Davies, in God's Playground: A History of Poland, (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1982), volume 1, page 79]
Finally, Benjamin Blech once found no problem to simply ask:
"... What happened to all the Khazar Jews, both the descendants of the converts and the settlers, is shrouded in mystery. They were certainly dispersed in many of the neighboring lands. ... Who knows? If your ancestors came from these lands, you may have the blood of kings in you - not David and Solomon, but kings who voluntarily chose to join the fate of a people whose religion they acknowledged as true."
[Benjamin Blech, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture (Alpha Books, 1999), pages 161-162]
Thus, the attitude isn't hostile, nor is the mind haunted by every consiperacy illusion when it comes to the real scholars and sane sages. Only paranoid fanatics and disordered racists, by now almost everywhere, are who first plant such evil in this world and in advance assume it in every stranger. Still, regretfully, no matter how much we write and explain, they're always there, certain of themselves, sure about their sick, and sickening, beliefs, for truly, as Bertrand Russell brilliantly put it once:
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Thank you for your contribution, however. I of course don't yet believe you're but a hateful racist. Just don't be one, please, and don't listen, ever, to any of them. Keep honest, and free, if i may advise you. Your language is relatively respectable, and your content suggests that you are, hopefully, still capable of truth, and of love. Regards.
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