List countries in the Middle East by whether they are phenotypically closer to Greece or Pakistan

[Tooting Carmen]

Imo:

Greece

Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel

Intermediate

Jordan, West Bank

Pakistan

Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman

[Truthbetold]

+1 Yes you are a knowledgeable man. Gave you a thumbs up

İran, Yemen, Oman, UAE = Same people, same race. From Gilan and Ardabil to Aden. Basically western Pakistanis.

Jordanians are essentially eastern Greeks compared to the curry munching İranians, so you're right about putting Jordan into the "intermediate" category.

Basically as soon as you cross the İranian border into Armenia and Azerbaijan, people are like Eastern Greeks and only eat Feta

Who the phuck cares about reality, right?

[Tooting Carmen]

+1 Yes you are a knowledgeable man. Gave you a thumbs up

İran, Yemen, Oman, UAE = Same people, same race. From Gilan and Ardabil to Aden. Basically western Pakistanis.

Jordanians are essentially eastern Greeks compared to the curry munching İranians, so you're right about putting Jordan into the "intermediate" category.

Basically as soon as you cross the İranian border into Armenia and Azerbaijan, people are like Eastern Greeks and only eat Feta

Who the phuck cares about reality, right?

Nice sarcasm there. But to answer your points:

(1) Most Iranians are noticeably darker than Caucasus people, and certainly in Southern and Eastern Iran there is considerable overlap with Pakistanis.

(2) That Gulf Arabs look closer to Pakistanis than to Greeks need not be said.

(3) Levantines (even Jordanians, to a degree) are quite different from Gulf Arabs and have more Med influence instead.

[Truthbetold]

Nice sarcasm there. But to answer your points:

(1) Most Iranians are considerably darker than Caucasus people, and certainly in Southern and Eastern Iran there is considerable overlap with Pakistanis.

(2) That Gulf Arabs look closer to Pakistanis than to Greeks need not be said.

(3) Levantines (even Jordanians, to a degree) are quite different from Gulf Arabs and have more Med influence instead.

I'm never sarcastic.

Azeris from Ardabil and Tabriz are brown whereas we Azeris with roots in Baku are white

Also you're right about southern and eastern Iran. More than 80% of Iranians live in the east to the country close to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Population density map

[Lavrentis]

All MENA’s (Israelis included) are phenotypically closer to Pakistanis than to native Greeks. Notable exception are the Georgians.

It’s the South Asian-Iranid-Armenian-Anatolian continuum.

Greeks acted like a natural barrier against those people and those components significantly drop once you cross the Aegean or Thrace and enter Greek lands.

[Tooting Carmen]

All MENA’s (Israelis included) are phenotypically closer to Pakistanis than to native Greeks. Notable exception are the Georgians.

It’s the South Asian-Iranid-Armenian-Anatolian continuum.

Greeks acted like a natural barrier against those people and those components significantly drop once you cross the Aegean or Thrace and enter Greek lands.

LOL so even people like Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert and Yitzhak Rabin pass better in Pakistan than Greece?

[Bornoz]

Thank you for this super informative thread.

[Lavrentis]

LOL so even people like Bibi Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert and Yitzhak Rabin pass better in Pakistan than Greece?

Those are European Jews I assume. Maybe outliers. Outliers exist even among Jordanians.

Israelis are a mix of everything. From Iberian Jews to South Asian Jews.

Trust me in 20-30 years the average Israeli is going to be a mix of 3 continents

[Kivan]

Greece

Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Intermediate

Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iran

Pakistan

Gaza, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman


Edit: if your classification in the OP is by order, then it's very wrong regarding Turkey.

[Tooting Carmen]

Those are European Jews I assume. Maybe outliers. Outliers exist even among Jordanians.

Israelis are a mix of everything. From Iberian Jews to South Asian Jews.

Trust me in 20-30 years the average Israeli is going to be a mix of 3 continents

At least half of Jews look roughly like Netanyahu or Olmert (though Rabin is admittedly rather more atypical).