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I've read that study and I've read several other studies. Sicilians aren't particularly close to Mainland Greeks; it is GREEK ISLANDERS they are closest to.
Ancient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean - PMC
The Mediterranean shores stretching between Sicily, Southern Italy and the Southern Balkans witnessed a long series of migration processes and cultural exchanges. Accordingly, present-day population diversity is composed by multiple genetic layers, ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genetic history of the population of Crete - PMC
The medieval history of several populations often suffers from scarcity of contemporary records resulting in contradictory and sometimes biased interpretations by historians. This is the situation with the population of the island of Crete, which ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
"Low distances" between "Greeks" and Sicilians is due the term "Greek" meaning ALL populations of Greece combined and averaged.

Differential Greek and northern African migrations to Sicily are supported by genetic evidence from the Y chromosome - European Journal of Human Genetics
The presence or absence of genetic heterogeneity in Sicily has long been debated. Through the analysis of the variation of Y-chromosome lineages, using the combination of haplogroups and short tandem repeats from several areas of Sicily, we show that traces of genetic flows occurred in the...

Yeah even in your studies and other studies show that Sicilians plot closer to Greeks and Ashnakazi Jews who themselves have around 50-60 percent European DNA plus they plot closer to Northern Italians than to any MENA populations
Tbh, I'll admit some Sicilians can look Levantine at the most, but not once have I seen any Italian, Sicilian or not look like the brown skin Bedouin