Don't know what this is doing on Happier Abroad and why I have to be reading this stuff here in Angeles City to the sound of birds and frogs and under the fronds of palm trees with all these gorgeous women around and people calling me countryman, friend, brother, etc. What does this have all to do with it?
Anyway, in the former USSR there were 2+ million people who had in their internal documents - birth certificates, school records, internal passports and IDs, the words "Nationality: Hebrew" written in. Most of these people were easily identifiable by facial features and by hair texture, to the Slavs. They looked Semitic. There were some that mixed with the locals and started looking like the locals. But they do not represent the majority. Most looked Jewish, as in Jewish.
The pictures you showed represent people on the edges of the Jewish world. Half breeds, converts ( not many) and intermarriages ( not many). Also people who have a distant Jewish ancestor but still choose to be Jewish, Good for them and I wish them luck. But they are not the main stock of the Jewish population.
One can say the same the same about Arabs, as well. There are Arabs who are black and those who look Oriental and those who look Indian as in Oman. There are also Arabs who are totally blond and look German. I have met all of them. But, you see, they do not represent the bulk of the Arab population. They are on the fringes, the minority. The bulk of Arabs look Semitic- like Arabs, that is.
The others are mixtures and exceptions, not the rules. Somalia is an Arab country, by the way. So, are these Arabs?
and these are Arabs, too
The same people. According to Arabs.
So, here we can do the same and use the same logic:
An Arab
An Arab
Three Arabs- hmm look Oriental, how come!?
An Arab that looks Indian:
So, hmm, there is no Arab people then?
Yes, there is because the above are exceptions and rarities/ anomalies.
Most look like this:
Same with the Jews, you do have some 10-15% that look either Aryan or Black or even Oriental. But they are not the main mass. so to speak.
You can also take people from any nation- say China. I will find a black man there, quite a few, I will find a white man there two, I will find an Arabic/Semitic man there, all Chinese citizens. But they are not the majority! They are also part of Chinese nationality, the Russian descent ones, the Turkestanis, etc. But most people are Han and they look Han.
Here in the Philippines, there are also people who are black, as in pitch black, and there is a white kid running around here, and many Chinese and Japanese looking ones. So, one can argue that the Filipinos are not a people. But the bulk looks Malay and is Malay, big eyes, brown skin, flat noses, etc.
Now, it is my picture time and I want you to show what the majority of Jews look like:
This guy is only one generation out of guess where, Latvia. Do you know what Latvians look like?
Here you go:
See the difference? Paul Michael Glaser would stand out like a sore thumb on the streets of any Latvian town.
Now lets look at Menachem Begin
He is from Poland. No Pole looks like this. He looks clearly Semitic.
Now lets look at a Pole:
See the difference?
Let's see some more faces of the bulk of Jews. Not the half-breeds who are a small minority. Trust me, I come from that stock and my family suffered so much because of that look. And no it was not the Khazar look, but very Semitic, very similar to how people in Lebanon and Syria look.
And I am not even circumcized and I do not practice Judaism.
But anyway, here are some photos: family from Romania and Hungary, but the look is totally Semitic. If you doubt it ask any Romanian and Hungarian what they would call a person like this. They would say: a kike!
Young Einstein and his mother: no German looks like that. A totally Semitic look.
Ta-da! Seinfeld!
Another VERY Jewish face!
The people above, when they are in most of Europe, they stand out like a huge sore thumb unless they are in some very Mediterranean country such as Italy or maybe Greece.
These people went through a lot in Europe, screams- Get out! This is not your country! Go back to Palestine! So they did go! and now what? Get out of Palestine?
Even I was in Ukraine last year and I got called a "kike". How do they know? Well, their eyes is sharper than yours, you see. And they can also tell a Turk fron an ethnic Jew while you probably cannot. Most Americans cannot tell. They can only tell whites, blacks, Asians, etc.
This is the Jewish "bulk population" look: Gilal Shalit.
Here is a Jew, a typical one. You cant get more Jewish than this.
Now, about the Khazaria so we could get this out of the way. The rulers of a Turkic kingdom Khazaria accepted Judaism but they were still of Turkic stock and they did mix in with the Ashkenazi Jews but again they were not the majority. You can say the same about Arabs. They are mixed with Turks, with Blacks and even Europeans. But that blood dissolved in the main ethnic stock, see?
If Jews are not a race why have they for centuries been shown as ugly Semites on caricatures in Europe and not as blacks or Indians?
Dark curly hair, hooked noses, a jutting lower lip. Hmm, where did these concepts come from? Out of thin air? Why are they described like that? And if they are Khazars- Turks? , why do they speak Yiddish? Trace the language- Rome to Germany, Hebrew gets mixed with German, on to Eastern Europe, the language gets mixed with Slavic words. No Turkish words in it. Yiddish is Hebrew + German- old German and the Romanian and with Russian words, too. It was there before there even was Khazaria. And the term Anti-Semitism was invented by Europeans. It is not anti-Judaism and it is not anti-Turkism. Semite is the root word.
This is a reel by Hitler, it is a propaganda movie and it is vicious but historically very accurate. It does show how Jews migrated into Europe and where they settled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrK2CJ-T ... re=related
Jews also have genetic diseases and they are not Turkish. Or Indian or Black.
Lastly, who and what Arabs are is not for you or me to decide. Arabs decide that and describe themselves like that and as they wish. And if they consider themselves a race and a nation, then they are. You ( or I ) do not have the authority to say that they are not. We can have opinions but they matter as much as a fart of a mosquito in the Amazon.
Who and what Jews are is again not within your authority to decide, unless again, you would like to simply present your point of view. Which again matters as little as the opinion above. Ultimately Jews decide who and what they are and what to call themselves and who is Jewish and who is not. According to their laws and the Torah. And if they decide that some black man is Jewish or some person from India is Jewish, then he is. You have no say in the matter.
A not very exact analogy- I can go to England and walk up to local black people and those who are Indian- looking and those who are of different race mixtures and then declare that they are not British and/or that they are not English and that there is no English race or English people or British people and that it is an invention, too. And maybe I'll get my ass kicked. But mainly I will be thought of as a foolish ignorant person. Do you know why? Because it is the Queen that decides who is British and who is not. And it is the English people who decide who is English and who is not and what constitutes Englishness or Britishness. This falls out of my jurisdiction. I have no authority in this matter. And you have no authority to decide who and what the Jews are, if they are a people or not, and who is Jewish and who is not. No one does except the Jews themselves.
I am not going to talk about this anymore because this is insanity. So many people got attacked because of their Semitic faces and threatened and all that. And hated. And I have seen this happen. And have known about people very close to me KILLED because of that look. Now, you are telling me it was all an illusion? I am not even coming back to this thread, it makes me upset and hurts me and I cannot enjoy my life here in RP. So I will leave it here and I am not even going to check the answers.