Maltese are actually only mixed with Arabs. Maltese language is a direct descendent of the Arabic that was spoken in Sicily during the Emirate there and the Tunisian Arabic spoken back then. That is why Tunisians can understand Maltese the most although all other Arabs will understand a lot as well. The problem is that modern-day Maltese has been heavily mixed with Italian (due to Italian migrants from Sicily) and then you had English influences and some French ones as well.
Describe below here.
Since Maltese are Christians and they live in Australia (Christian and Western country) they don't want to associate themselves with Arabs, Muslims or non-Western countries even though much of their culture, language, cuisine, geography is more Arab than say German, English or whatever. Besides Muslims have had a bad reputation in recent times (last few decades and even before that - last 100-200 years or so - of course earlier as well too due to Arab/Turkish conquests of Europe) but that was mostly religiously motivated. For instance Arabic was taught at leading European universities (Oxford, Cambridge, Sarbonne etc.) and much of the European Renaissance is thanks to the Arabs/Muslims and their spread of knowledge during the Islamic Golden Age.
You probably have some Lebanese Christian fags claiming to be Phoenicians (forgetting that they WERE a Semitic people as well and they themselves claimed to be from Eastern Arabia (modern-day Eastern KSA ironically) and Semitic people originated in Arabia/Southern Levant/Southern Mesopotamia so it makes sense also, so they can appear "superior" to the Western man. Just inferiority complexes, nothing else. You can see that behavior among certain other Christian Arabs too, even ethnic Arabs like Jordanians. A minority though. Sellouts exists everywhere.
