Not really, Arabs had been living in the Holy Land for more than a millennium, the Russians had only been in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany for just over 40 years. These countries also had their own governments even though they tied to the Soviet Union, which by the way, no longer exists.
Arabs? Do you mean Beduins or do you mean Muslims? Do you know what an Arab is. Or better still are you suggesting the Arabs of the Middle East would only be Muslim and not Jews and Christians as well? Get back to me.