Ancient Greeks had some genetic affinities with other East med populations, but they were very much related also to neighbouring Europeans in the Balkans.
Their culture was a fusion of the local Minoan/Pelasgian EEF derived maritime people - which is today and was then predominantly associated with southern Europe, combined with a Northern Indo-European steppe culture - to which they owed their language, gods and certain cultural elements relating to bardic poetry, ritual alcohol use, and military war bands. This too is predominantly a European phenomenon and originated in Europe. It is something they shared with Celts, Germans, Scythians, Italics etc.
It is a great leap to go from the reasonable assertion that "Greece had important trade links with thr Near East, which resulted in cultural and genetic exchange, particularly with Indo-Europeans in Anatoloa" to the outrageous seething cope of "Ancient Greeks had more in common culturally with MENA than with their European neighbours"
It should be added that the Myceneans got their tin from Cornwall and their amber from Sweden.
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