Arabs  Truth Exposed:

In Genesis 25:18b we read that all the descendants of Ishmael lived in hostility toward their relatives.  It has been taught that these people became the Arab nations and that is the reason for all the animosity in the Middle East.  Not so.  There is nothing in scripture that leads to that conclusion.  Nothing.  Historically and biblically, Ishmael’s descendants occupied the western Arabian Desert along the Red Sea and parts of Africa.  Hagar was Egyptian and may very well have headed back in that direction after leaving Abraham, but eventually settled in Mecca.  This is where the families were introduced to a very early form of Arabic, thereby identifying them as “Arabs.”  But they did not become the Arab nations.  How easily we can be fooled. 

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