Thread: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh Assassination

Originally Posted by Syme

I think the whole "they look Jewish" thing is a crock of shit.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/pi..._Assassins.jpg

Going from top to bottom, left to right: #1, maybe 2, 6, and 8 maybe 10 look "stereotypically Jewish"; #3, 5, 9, and 11 look generically Caucasian to me; #4 and 7 could as easily be Arabs as they could be anyone else (probably it looks that way because of the facial hair).

I disagree. I don't think any of those assassins look like Arabs, especially 4 & 7, who look very much like Ashkenazi Jews (they originated in Eastern Europe). Obviously this is rather dumb because I am saying someone looks like a Jew, when it is a religion. There is no Jewish race in my opinion (most are of European descent, which means they are not of a religious bloodline. The Jews originating in the Middle East are Arabs). Israel definitely has a lot of Arab Jews (or even Muslims) as spies, but obviously they have a lot more Caucasians (since that is what constitutes the majority of their population). On the other hand, I doubt any Arab intelligence agency has near as many Caucasian spies as they do Arab spies. This is significant because this team of approx. 25 individuals does not appear to have any Arabs. I would be surprised if an intelligence agency with a majority of Arab spies assembled a large assassination team with not one member who is clearly and visually an Arab. It's definitely something to think about. It could have no significance, or be key evidence.

So it's not that they look like Jews (this doesn't even make sense), it's that they look like Caucasians. This in my opinion incriminates the west, which Israel loves to include itself in.

Originally Posted by mrbazoun

So it's not that they look like Jews (this doesn't even make sense), it's that they look like Caucasians. This in my opinion incriminates the west, which Israel loves to include itself in.

Oh right, because if any Arab group really wanted to, they couldn't recruit 25 European-looking people to carry out their dirty work, or Mossad couldn't pick 25 of their Ashkenazi agents who looked less Ashkenazi than is typical.

Also, your accusation of this being some conspiracy of Israel and "the West" against the Arabs is baseless and sounds paranoid.

Your line of reasoning is absurd. Most likely it was either Mossad i(which circumstantial evidence is already suggesting) or it was some other group in the Middle East that had help from Hamas defectors. There's no reason at this point to think that any European or North American country had anything to do with this.