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@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party @freemo Persians aren't Arabs. That area is historically Persian. Arabs are further East.

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I think people just use arabs to mean "people of arabic speaking descent"... probably fairly technically incorrect of course.

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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/205602

Arab culture was likely adopted during the conquests. Palestinians are Palestinian and perhaps being called Arabs muddied the waters.

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