Who are the phoenicians of today ?

Question

In my opinions, I believe the inhabitants of Lebanon, SYria and Palestine are phoenicians because tehir faces look different from the arabs of Hijaz. Anyone wants to contribute any other hypothesis ?

Answer 1

The Phoenicians travelled and settled all over the Mediterranean. Many people around the world have Phoenecian ancestors. The Persians, Greeks, Jews, French and British, among others, ruled parts of the areas you mention. It's unlikely that many of the people there can trace their ancestry to a single group.

Answer 2

Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians and the people of Lebanon "look different" from other Arabs because they are partly the descendants of Christian crusaders from Europe, not because they have anything to do with the Phoenicians. The crusaders raped many women in the Middle East when they invaded it under the pretext of "defending Christians sites".

Answer 3

people of lebanon and syria look like this because they are heavily mixed with the european crusadors who lived in this area during the crusades and didn't get back to europe.

People of palestine are the direct offspring of the old jews who entered this land almost 4000 years ago., in contrary to modern day jews who are mainly from european dissent. BTW these old jews originally originated from northern libya who are whiter than others people in north africa.

The arabs of Hijaz represent a very small percentage of the people know collectivelly known as arabs. they are manily the residents in saudi arabia and gulf countires. and they are getting mixed with immigrants from north africa and other countries. the entire area of the middle east are very mixed racially so that no one can be even 50% of one pure race. the reason for this is that the muslim society had no boundries regarding races and so people travelled and married freely.

Answer 4

Phoenicians of today live in the hot, arid land of Arizona. They can be found at Arizona Diamondback games, guzzling water by the gallon, or heading in droves to San Diego to get a break from the 114 degree days.

They are also known as "Zonies" by the previously mentioned San Diegans as we assist in clogging their already over taxed freeways.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I once had a boss who migrated from Lebanon to the US. He considered himself Phoenician when Arabs were getting bad press. His clan was from northern Lebanon.

Answer 6

Lebanese ... however, the Phoenicians were only along the coast, so those in the Bekka Valley, for instance, could not be considered Phoenicians, but rather Syrians or Semites.

Answer 7

Lebanese.
All they need is for Syria to stop interfering.

Answer 8

I believe there are genetic studies that have investigated this.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature2/index.html