[rmlew]

The true genetic descendants of the Jews are the Palestinians.
Palestinians are largely descended from the Arabs who invaded i the 7th century. They are also descended from the Byzantin/Roman colonists. And, yes, they are also descended from Jews and Samaritans. Of course, this would be the 19th centruty Levantine Arabs. Since then there has been an influx of Syrian and Egyptian Arabs as well as other groups like Circassians and other European Muslims setteled there by the Ottomans.

[Jacob Kell]

Weren’t the Palestinians also descended from other Semitic peoples, neither Arab nor Hebrew, such as the Moabites?

[attiladhun2]

Also Chechnyans who left Czarist Russia in the 19th Cen. and settled in what would become Jordan or Tranjordan.