Right, I'm not saying that my guesstimates about the ethnic origin of the people in that photo are conclusively correct, just airing my opinion that the "they look Jewish" argument is a thin one. I'm airing this opinion in response to your statement that they "all looked remarkably Jewish". I have been to and traveled in Israel, for what that's worth.
But anyhow, the idea that "Israeli Jews" constitute a distinct "racial group" is frankly laughable. The Israeli public is strongly multi-ethnic, your suggestion that they're all from a common "racial group" and thus can reliably spot fellow members of that "racial group" is total crap. They are a mish-mash of people with ethnic origins running back to all parts of Europe along with Western Asia and the Arab world. The Israeli public's assumptions about the ethnic origins of these people, especially based on low-quality passport photos, are no more valid than your assumptions or mine. Especially since, like most everyone else, they are already making a prior assumption (reasonable as it may be) that Mossad was responsible, which will of course color their reactions to the photos.
I don't know what makes mrbazoun think that the guys in photos #4 and 7 look "very much like" Ashkenazi Jews. They could be, but they could just as easily be ethnic Arabs. They would easily blend in with the majority of people on the streets of Amman or Cairo. Which is what I said in the first place--I didn't say that they looked particularly like Arabs, what I said was that they could as easily be Arabs as they could be (non-Arab) Jews or anyone else.
EDIT: Also, new info: Some of the suspects in the assassination apparently fled from Dubai into Iran after the hit.
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