There’s a chance here for Syria, Iran and Turkey to collaborate and destroy the oil looters. Cutting [some of] Israel’s energy supply is reason enough.

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf

Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.