Assyrian Independence?

[Paul Younan]

I think most people do not make the necessary distinction between Arab and Arabic-speaking. Most people in the west simply call everyone in the middle east an "Arab."

The "Arabs" were originally the 13 tribes descended from Ishmael. Their descendants today are the various tribes of Saudi Arabia.

Just because we speak English doesn't necessarily mean we are ethnically English, and just because Palestinians speak Arabic doesn't necessarily mean they are Arab ethnically.

Arabs are from Arabia. The Lebanese are Arabic-speaking Phoenicians, just like the Palestinians are Arabic-speaking Canaanites.