Why do the Arab nations descended from Ishmael have a double connection to Egypt?
Ishmael’s mother was an Egyptian, and she later returned to Egypt to take a wife for Ishmael from her homeland. Therefore the Arab nations descended from Ishmael have a double link to Egypt through both his maternal line and his wife.
Les explains that Ishmael’s mother was an Egyptian, so when Ishmael needed a wife, she went back home to Egypt to get one for him. This gives Ishmael’s offspring—the Arab nations—a double connection to Egypt. Les also notes that Egyptians are not true Arabs, but they are so closely related that in all political and other matters they are all heart and mind together and always work well together, because the wife was taken out of the land of Egypt.