Arab trying to interpret Jewish and European results

[Kamal900]

do you know your Y-DNA?

Not yet, but I do know my mtDNA which is U3, and longbowman told me that an Israelite man belonged to the same haplogroup as I am more than 2000 years ago.

[whoibe]

J2 is most likely native Levantine. I think you do have ancient Israelite ancestry for the most part like me.

What I'm wondering about now is how come I score much higher (lower distance) Syrian and Lebanese than Palestinian or Arabs_Israel on every single GEDmatch test? This puzzles me even more when comparing my results to those of actual Syrians and Lebanese like the ones posted here (I hope I'm allowed to link to other forums, otherwise sorry!) who have Palestinian and Arabs_Israel at a much lower distance than I (even as lowest distance for some). What on earth are they using as reference populations that they're showing up no where near the top in the results?

This is really the case for every test. A couple more:

Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 4-Ancestors Oracle

Spoiler!

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Syrian @ 5.078135
2 Lebanese_Muslim @ 6.765339
3 Jordanian @ 8.045209
4 Samaritan @ 8.355210
5 Cyprian @ 8.525314
6 Palestinian @ 9.835448
7 Lebanese_Christian @ 10.295339
8 Tunisian_Jewish @ 11.601144
9 Bedouin @ 12.419080
10 Libyan_Jewish @ 12.768428
11 Kurdish_Jewish @ 13.238674
12 Iranian_Jewish @ 13.475235
13 Lebanese_Druze @ 13.940656
14 Sephardic_Jewish @ 14.507978
15 Assyrian @ 15.314764
16 Algerian_Jewish @ 15.693653
17 Italian_Jewish @ 16.293404
18 Egyptian @ 17.072977
19 Turkish @ 18.628244
20 Georgian_Jewish @ 19.099371

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Cyprian +50% Jordanian @ 4.734040


Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Iranian_Jewish +25% Moroccan +25% Samaritan @ 2.473386

MDLP K16 Modern 4-Ancestors Oracle

Spoiler!

Using 1 population approximation:
1 Lebanese_Muslim_Lebanon @ 2.949764
2 Jew_Syria @ 3.830745
3 Lebanese_Christian_Lebanon @ 3.912414
4 Arab_Israel_Iqrit @ 4.905327
5 Jordanian_Jordanian @ 5.587476
6 Syrian_Syria @ 6.530841
7 Samaritan_Israel @ 6.895977
8 Lebanese_Lebanon @ 7.153776
9 Arab_Israel_Shefa_Amr @ 7.480953
10 Assyrian_Iran @ 7.862566
11 Jew_Georgia @ 8.624415
12 Jew_Azerbaijan @ 8.888544
13 Palestinian_Israel @ 9.124882
14 Turk_Adana @ 9.167539
15 Jew_Kurdish @ 9.238638
16 Cypriot_Cyprus @ 9.437604
17 Armenian_Gavar @ 9.685884
18 Assyrian_Armavir @ 9.711676
19 Assyrian_Iraq @ 9.721225
20 Jew_Turkish_Sephardim @ 10.022146

Using 2 populations approximation:
1 50% Lebanese_Muslim_Lebanon +50% Jew_Syria @ 2.589824


Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Armenian_Yerevan +25% Egyptian_Mansoura_Cairo +25% Jew_Turkey @ 1.457804