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Color is a very useful tool in the ME (and others).
There are very light skinned and dark skinned Arabs. Some look white. The same is true for Jews in Israel who come in all colors. But propogandous posters regarding the evils of Israel or America will always show a white man. The opposite was true in Germany where posters depicting Jews were usually not of "white" people.
The ME has their own version of the "white man keeping them down."
The "dark skinned" Arabs is largely a legacy of the Slave Trade, which went on for nearly a thousand years with East Africa. Many of Qatar's best runners, for example, are descendants of African slaves sent to Arabia.