Do Israelis know the difference between Arabs and Arabic Speakers?

I think a lot of Israelis, both Arabs and non-Arabs, speak Arabic. So I expect they know that Arabic-speakers aren't all Arabs.

English speakers are not all English, and Spanish speakers are not all Spanish either.

Sara, there is no such thing as ethnically Arabs. The Arabic language was first introduced in the 2nd century.

So, before the 2nd century, there was no such thing as an Arab. After the 2nd century, people who started speaking Arabic, which I think started in Iraq, were referred to as Arabs, but they are ethnically Semitic.

So the Canaanites could as well be the modern Palestinians, as many Syrians and Lebanese (Phoenicians, etc.) had been proven to be former Canaanites and they didn't adopt Arabic from Aramaic till later on.

Either way, we sure have lived on that land for a longer period than exiled Jews, and we were always called the Philistines since the day of Jesus Christ. Language and Religion are irrelevant.

If we are not the Canaanites, then 1400 years are longer than the 200 years that the Americans lived in America or the 500 year conquest of Palestine by Israelites and Judaens who they stole away from the Canaanites.

God doesn't have an ethnicity. He is not Black nor White not Red not Irish not Arab or even African. I think these kinds of talks are useless and only contribute to more discrimination. Look at all the non sense happening in all the Middle East today or anywhere else. If people looked at others as merely humans we would not have all the genocides and ethnic cleansings. May you discover the love of God in Jesus Christ. Have a blessed night.

You are the same people as Cannan? How would you know that? Arabs spread to Cannan with Arab peoples. Cannanites died off and integrated to Mediterraneans societies. Most phonecians who were left were moved via water to Sicily and Greece. Hebrew was a spoken language there for a while.

Don't try to justify your presence in Israel by saying you are something that cannot be proven. Rather, since you parents lived there, you are from there that is it.

What do you believe is an arab then? Bedoin Arab? There were always a lot of bedoin arabs in Palestine way before arabized arabs.

Arabs are a nation and an ethnicity (or collection of ethnicities, if you insist).

Arabic speakers are just people who speak Arabic. Many Israelis speak Arabic (I do too, but very very poorly).

Many small nations/tribes were assimilated into the Arab nation, and lost their original identity through intermarriages and cultural assimilation.

One main exception for this are Jews, who did keep their identity, whether in Israel or in other Arab countries.

Your conclusion does not follow from your premises - the fact that there are Arabic speakers who are not Arabs doesn't necessarily make you one of them.

Syrian, Egyptians, Jordanians, Iraqis, and many more are Arabs.

Naturally, the Arabs who lived in Palestine were also Arabs.

Saaaaara,come on! “Greater Syria (Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon & Syria) Adopted Arabic before Islam came to existence” Greater Syria,my dear Sara,was nothing but a Roman Province.

And that this extremely heroic “greater Syria” “adopted Arabic before islam came to existence”…Aimed high,but will not fly.

The quote from the http://www.cometosyria.com/en/language.htm

(Hope you will not argue with Syrains,which language they spoke in the 7th century?)

“The Arabic Language:

Arabic (al Arabiya), a Semitic idiom, is the main language spoken in Syria. The Arabic language was adopted and spread over a large area of land in the 7th Century”.

IN THE 7TH CENTURY,Sara ! Not before islam came to existence,but exactly the opposite: AFTER muslim invaded Syria.And if you want to know,what language was spoken in Syria BEFORE Arabic,you are welcome;it was Aramaic,my dear “Palestinian“ who does not even know where these “ Ancient Philistines” came from(they came from Crete or Greece,Sara,and their language was not even of Semitic group).

Any doubt about that?If yes,please visit http://www.aina.org/articles/frye.htm , there is a wonderful lecture by Richard N. Frye, PhD., Harvard University there.

Still any doubt?Then visit http://phoenicia.org/syria.html. It´s really very good,and if after readin it you will not understand what and who you are-then you are a very special and sifficult case.

You are ARAB,my dear Sara.Arab-and nothing more. And your ties with Canaanites, Philistines and Phoenicians are about as close as my ties with American Indians.

It´s http://www.cometosyria.com/en/language.htm,

the official Syrian site,which "has nothing to do with arabs and the Middle East in general",Sara?

the local people of the region did speak a kind of proto-arabic, but that's just a language.

if you are saying there's no such ethnicity as palestinian, i agree. if you are saying that arab people did invade from the arabian peninsula and took over the middle east, north africa and south asia after the invention of islam, you are correct.

but if you are trying to make any connection between the arabs in the middle east today and the ancient peoples like the philistines, you are sorely mistaken. there is no connection.

yes, i know the difference between arabs and arabic speakers. lots of jewish people speak arabic. but arabs as a people, belong in the arabian peninsula.

"Arab" is an ethno-cultural group from Morocco to Iraq , mainly based on language and culture.

During the history , many peoples have been arabized , and are nowadays considered "Arabs" & it includes : Phoenicians , Arameans/Canaanites , Babylonians , ancient Egyptians , ancient Berbers etc....

Arab language itself , has been cut in several "sub-languages" or "dialects" as : Iraqi arabic , Levantin arabic or Maghrebi arabic and each of these dialects are different from each other but all derived from the original Arabic spoken in the VIIth century!

I can't make a claim for Israelis as a whole, but scholars of the relevant matter know that all 'Arabs' are not invaders from Arabia, but but were people influenced by the culture of the invaders.

the True Arabs are Arabs with documents proofs they are Arabs and they belong to Arabian tribes. others are not considered Arabs actually Arabized people.