[muawiyah]

Not to belabor the case, but the Arab speaking population in Palestine didn't just pop up out of nowhere. They are as predominantely Caananite as the Israelis and Lebanese.

They are not "cousins". It's just that their people were converted to Islam in the 8th and 9th centuries, as were virtually all other Jews in the Middle East and North Africa except for those in Spain and Baghdad. Which means they never learned Ladino.

[blam]

Interesting, keep talking.