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The “Israelis” are not “from” EY any more than most Americans are “from” the US. They emigrated there from other places, and not always willingly as in the case of Iraqi Jews who were forced out of Iraq by tzioini agitation. Over 300,000 “Israelis” are not even Jews. The only Jews who truly can claim they are from EY are those few, like the Zenati family in the Galil, whose ancestors never left. Also, the old yishuv has some authenticity as it is made up of Jews who went up to EY bikdusha ubetehoro.
Iraqis are also from the same country as Avraham Avinu.
Kasho, Munkacz, Ungvar, Satu Mare etc were located in lands conquered by the ancestors of the present Hungarians. They had another culture altogether.