[TheRealThing]

^^ I do not believe one can say that all Jews of the Lord's day were dark-ish skinned and brown eyed, as are the peoples of the Arab nations. History suggests it may be much more likely that the early Jew looked more like your average American as far as diversity's sake is concerned. ABTW, the nation Israel is not Arabic, and I will be happy to expound on that further if you'd care to consider the point further. :biggrin:

In the meantime this is what a person of some intimacy has to say about it;

"The Israelites of old were regarded by the Egyptians as people from the land of Amuru, meaning the land of the Amorites which the Israelites conquered. Another term applied to the general Syrian area was "Retenu". The name "Upper Retenu"1 corresponded to the geographical space encompassed by the Land of Israel, according to the Bible. People from the area known as "Amuru" or "Retenu" after ca.1400 BCE are presumably Israelites. They are depicted on Egyptian monuments as red, blonde, or black-haired with frequent blue eyes and red beards. Illustrations of individuals with this appearance are automatically assumed by Egyptologists to pertain to the Israelite or "Syrian" area. Another blonde blue-eyed people depicted on Egyptian monuments were the so-called "Libyans" and it has now been shown by Alessandra Nibbi (1989) that these were not dwellers of "Libya" but rather of the Nile Delta and of Hebrew origin."
http://www.britam.org/anthropology.html