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>run by greedy semitic merchants
There is actually no evidence this is true at all. Almost every single set of human remains found and genetically tested from the Carthaginian era comes back as a mix of Aegean-Sicilian with virtually no Levantine descended genetics, and very little North African genetics.

Its not clear if the original Phoenician colonizers were just culturally Phoenician but actually already not ethnically Phoenician; or the number of Levantine colonizers was extremely small and started mixing with the rest of the colony almost immediately.

Carthage had Levantine culture, but almost none of the genetic, read into that what you will because the scientific community doesnt really know what to think about it yet lol.

The famous Latin made bust widely believed to be Hannibal of Carthage doesnt look Semitic either for what its worth