Arabs (aka biblically "ishmaelites" mediated the slave trade for more than 3000Arabs were all over Palestine, the Levant, Mesopotamia and Syria long before Islam.
years and traveled extensively. In fact they were defined as homeless, unlettered
nomads prone to criminality. As such traders they traveled far and wide----
plying trade as far as INDIA and western parts of Europe. Somalia is, early
in its history, an arab (aka ishmaelite) slave trading colony. The islamo nazi
revisionist history rendering all civilizations 'arab' is as idiotic as if the gypsies
of Great Britain decided that all the riverbanks of Great Britain are GYPSY LAND.
Jews lived in arabia felix long before the rapist of Mecca was born---and in
'Alexandria Egypt. They escaped the filth of "arabian" rape pillage and
enslavement along with zoroastrians----after the rapist of Mecca was born---
largely to India (the seaport Bombay) Chaldeans who survived remained in parts
of Mesopotamia---and Lebanon and Iraq----Coptics managed to survive in
Egypt to a significant degree