Significant for a bunch of reasons. Khazaria, in ancient times, lay mostly in western Kazakhstan and southern Russia. Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of that region. Ashkenazi "Jews" comprised the USSR gov't that committed all of the atrocities and today's Zionist gov't in Israel.
Currently, Zionism is the cause and culprit of the conflict in Palestine as this conflict never existed before the establishment of the Zionist movement in 1897.
More specifically, the establishment of the Zionist movement in the West and the consequences of its paramilitary activities in Palestine is the core cause for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.