Are Arabs White?

[Zioneer]

White Americans tend to treat Arabs as non-white, but Arabs can identify themselves as whatever they want to be.

I'd say there should be a "White Arab" census definition (like White Hispanic), for the sole purpose of making sure that affirmative action programs can reach them as well as other ethnic minorities. If they're classified as White, wouldn't that give them problems with applying to ethnicity-based benefits (like scholarships), while socially being treated as non-white because they're Arabs?