Some Lebanese, mainly Christians, identify themselves as Phoenician rather than Arab, seeking to draw "on the Phoenician past to try to forge an identity separate from the prevailing Arab culture". [4] They argue that Arabization merely represented a shift to the Arabic language as the vernacular of the Lebanese people, and that, according to them, no actual shift of ethnic identity, much less ancestral origins, occurred. Their argument, based on the premise of ancestry, has recently been vindicated by some emerging genetic studies as discussed below. Thus, Phoenicianists emphasize that the Arabs of Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia, Iraq, and all other "Arabs", are different peoples, each descended from the indigenous pre-Arab populations of their respective regions, with their own histories and lore, and that therefore they do not belong to the one pan-Arab ethnicity, and thus such categorisation is erred or inapplicable. Lehe nationals in particular tend to stress aspects of Lebanon's non-Arab history as a mark of respect, to encompass all Lebanon's historical stages, instead of beginning at the Arab conquests, an attitude that prevails in the rest of the Arab world.



It is preposterous for you to claim that Arabs populated the Levant before the Muslim conquest. Same for North Africa.

You're not worth it Brian................more so now that you have been

""""OUTED"""

Go play with yourself !!!

abu_rashid wrote on Sep 25^th, 2010 at 9:06pm:



So the protesters didn't have any responsibility in this sad outcome?
Are you for real.
The police were just doing their job and breaking up a violent demonstration, which would be an expectation from any police force on the planet.
And those 'polluters' have historical ties to the holy land going back over 2500 years, and their not going anywhere.
The genie is out of the bottle Abu, and isn't going back in.

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You're a joke, seriously.

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Yes they did, since Jews were just a tribe of wandering Arabs that got lost in Egypt and then have spent the last 3000 odd years roaming all over the place.

However the claim Muhammad (pbuh) ethnically cleansed them is pure fantasy, nevermind, at least you got something right in this post.

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Well I never said they didn't intermix with the peoples they found when wandering. And let us not forget that they've got a lot of Khazaran ancestry too.

They're definitely not pure Semites like the Arabs, and this is evident not just in the chromosomes, but also in the language, culture and religion... all of which are very European.