So you're implying that Ancient Greece was merely just one of the civilisations that came from the Middle East and not an independently created civilisation? Good luck convincing Greek historians on that point.Sorry but no. This is flat out truth:
Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans
The origins of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures have puzzled archaeologists for more than a century. We assembled genome-wide data from nineteen ancient individuals, including Minoans from Crete, Mycenaeans from mainland Greece, and their ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I'm not going to argue with you on this. Greeks being mostly ME in genetic origins is as factual as the Sun existing. This is common knowledge in the genomics sphere and has been for at least a decade before we even had ancient DNA samples. And it is simply factual as well that Mycenaean Greek civilization was born from Minoan civilization which itself was non-Greek speaking with the Minoans being almost entirely of ancient ME origins: a mixture of Bronze Age Anatolian & Neolithic Greek which itself was of Neolithic ME origins:
Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time between ~12,000-1,400 BCE, from Natufian hunter-gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We show that the earliest populations of the Near East derived around half their ancestry ...
What happened in Greece was not total population replacement when the Indo-European Greek-speakers came to the region but very akin to what happened in other regions like Iran and Anatolia with Iranization and Turkification. A pastoralist group of people came, installed themselves as mostly an elite in the local, settled and civilized society then left behind no more than 10-25% of their DNA and their language as well as cultural influences like their religion. Everything that made Greece civilized was already there before these steppe, Indo-European people came as you can see with the Minoans and I'm afraid you're wrong about the rest like the Phoenician script just influencing the Greek one; it is flatout accepted and demonstrable as a daughter writing script as some simple googling could show you.
Greek civilization is an extension of those in the Middle-East. This is pretty uncontroversial for anyone who knows what they're talking about, abowe. I'm not stating opinions here. Just facts.
Now your evidence in regards to the Minoans which were the first proper civilisation to appear in Greece (specifically on the island of Crete) is for the most part unproblematic. It is generally accepted that the Minoans shared an Anatolian male founder group, but to what extent was this genetic contribution? You're saying that it was significant I'm saying it likely wasn't.
You're right in your assertion that the Minoans spoke a non-Greek language, but it is yet unclassified so saying that it was non-Greek doesn't really mean much. You certainly can't say lacking any evidence that it was a Semitic Language, it's more than likely an Indo-European language in fact.
As for the Mycenaeans, yes they shared genetic links with the Minoans but the study you presented hasn't really convinced me that Myceneans also had predominantly eastern genes. It merely states that there was an admixture. This doesn't take away the fact the Mycenaeans were the main contributors to later Greek civilisation, not the Minoans. The Myceneans also as we firmly know spoke an early Greek language and had developed an indigenous Linear B script without foreign influence.
Your insistence that Greek Civilisation was entirely a middle eastern creation is unfounded and based on scant genetic reasoning. Those studies are inconclusive at best, any real historian of Ancient Greek history would dismiss your arguments.
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