you are generally true there, however...
still, the syrian army calls itself "syrian arab army" for either political or social reasons.
in the end, it does not matter... al-hasani ( saif al-arab now ) is known on pdf for going on and on about "arab world", which thing doesn't exist in reality... vast political differences between "arab" countries make them transcend common language and food, and fight amongst each other.
as muammar gaddafi said in a speech in the 2009 "arab league" conference, syria is closer in relations to russia than it is to jordan, libya is ( was ) closer to italy than it is ( was ) to egypt.
in the end, all that matters is political ideology which must be progressive.
why should anyone be logically be offended... it is a cause for joy.