Where can ethnic Levantines pass in Europe?

[Sikeliot]

Well the thing is that Palestinians are Arabs mixed with Greeks... so putting them along with Syrians and Lebanese doesnt totally fit.

The Philistines were assimilated early on enough that I would bet the Greek genetic influence in Palestinians is very low.

[Linet]

Oh yes i agree, but even a 10 % is enough to alter the phenotype and also give lighter color.

[Sikeliot]

Oh yes i agree, but even a 10 % is enough to alter the phenotype and give lighter color.

I don't know how much actual Greek ancestry they have in Palestine, but Palestinians are not any genetically closer to Europe than other Levantines are.

[Linet]

well its 3.30 am here ... i have an answer but i ll give it tomorrow ... i ll be back

[Supreme American]

Hell no.

[Linet]

Yes yes i m back ...
Well as you said the percentage in their blood is low, especially due to the fact of the continual mixing with the Arabs.
Phillistains were Cretans- Minoans a fact that we can see also through the Israelly scripts which refer to them with all the 3 names. The Israeli writers call them either Greeks, either Cretans, either Phillistains, many times even into the very same script.

[accepthetruth]

Why is the bible even being referred to when it's a work of fiction, not fact?

I know that Lebanese (phoenicians) have greek/macedonian DNA from back in the day.... it says here that Lebanese are most genetically close to greeks and italians (real lebanese = phoenician, not arab) http://www.phoenicia.org/genetics.html

that link also includes other people (europeans and north africans) of the mediterranean as to having a link to the levatine

[Radogost]

I choose countries in southern Europe and Malta.

[The Lively Rock]

I'd say in the mediterranean and the middle east
You didn't give Turkey as one of the options but some of these guys definitely wouldn't look out of place in Istanbul

[MarkyMark]

The similarities are superficial and it shows if we look at genetics, because levantines cluster here:



while the bigger pictures tells us this:

That doesn't tell us anything, unless it specifies what type of Syrians or Lebanese people they tested. There are Arab Muslims in Syria and Lebanon. Then there are Maronite Catholics and Syriac Orthodox Christians who are the original people of those lands. It's like taking DNA tests from a Russian person who is living in Britain then including it in the DNA tests for actual British people. Syrian or Lebanese doesn't specify anything, only the country the live in.