Philip the Arab, Emperor of Rome What is an Arab ? Who are the Arabs ? Today we are 21 countries-states-kingdoms and Princedoms Non of them has drawn its own borders and not even two adjacent Arab-states have drawn their in-between-common-borders. All and each Arab-border-line was drawn by France or by Britain . The exception is Bahrain, whose borders were drawn by nature itself . The next-exception would be Palestine where Israel is playing and cheating with the border-lines which were originally French-English, anyhow. Otherwise everywhere is a classical case of post-colonialist-border-lines. My grand father would have used a Turkish-passport, but there were no passports in his time , neither did travel anywhere. My father went to study in the USA as a Syrian-citizen and by the time he finished his studies, Lebanon was born out of our mother-Syria , so my father became a Lebanese-citizen. My father served in the Free-French-Army in Beirut and my mother was born in 1921 in the Lebanon so she has the right to a French-citizenship. What ever passports we carry , we are all Arabs !! and my broad-family carries 8 different passports and live on four continents............ My children have 3 different passports..... and I have 2. But , what is an Arab and who is an Arab ?? You may read 10 books explaining what is Arab. or simply see what I say , very shortly hereafter : Arabs existed before Islam and even before Christianity they share the three monotheistic-religions they share common borders ( which they never did draw) they share one language they share on history (since the seventh century ,the same enemies and same invaders) they share one culture (which they made by themselves and adapted from others) You may call us one People , one Nation, one Land and Palestine is our Geographical-hart and Jerusalem is the first-capital of our faith..... Should you meet an Israeli-citizen who was only yesterday a Polish-citizen or a Russian or a Peruvian or an Ethiopian-citizen, tell him , please , to go home !!! Raja Chemayel an Arab 11 July 2008 PS. We invaded Spain ........and left it 500 years later better, wiser, richer, more tolerant and more enlightened.
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