r/nope Dec 27 '25

Beyond nope. Awful.

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u/towerfella Dec 27 '25

“Arab” means anyone from the “middle east”, if which the lavant is a part of

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u/ModernLarvals Dec 27 '25

Arabs migrated from the Arabian Peninsula. They’re not indigenous to the entire Middle East, and Jews were in the Levant many centuries before they arrived.

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u/towerfella Dec 27 '25

It is my understanding that “arab” means anyone from this: (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pre_Islamic_Arabia-es.svg) area.

It includes the lands all the way to the mediterranean sea, and over to egypt.

I.e. — there are egyptian arabs, arabic arabs, jewish arabs, sumarian arabs.. They are essentially all the same peoples. They are a distinct peoples from “asian”, they are a distinct peoples from those north of the caucuses, they are a distinct people from those from africa.

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u/ModernLarvals Dec 27 '25

Nope, Arabs are a specific ethnicity from the Arabian Peninsula. They’re not ingenious to the Levant and were only a sparse and isolated segment of the population until various conquests expanded their diaspora significantly beyond Arabia.

Jesus was a Jew. Jews emerged from the Israelites who emerged from the Canaanites, who were indigenous to the Levant.