Event spent any time in the sandbox? Trust me, Arabs don’t consider themselves white. hell, they hardly even have a concept of ‘white’. Alawites (maybe that’s what this dude is?), who knows.... in the ME, the divisions are tribal and sect based and less racial as we understand the race construct.
Interesting. I was going by what I observed in college--and on statuary from ancient Egypt. In particular, there was a statue representing the Egyptian emperor bestride a horse, with each hoof shown as the head of one of Egypt's "subject peoples" (whom they used as slave labor). One hoof was clearly sub-Saharan negro. The other three hooves were recognizable as tribes more similar to Arabs and Egyptians--probably including Hebrews!