You feel that way because Cyprus and Lebanon share deep ancient history, genetics and cultural connections that predate the modern Christian-European vs Muslim-Middle Eastern dichotomy. What you’re describing is the older Eastern Mediterranean cultural continuum, which doesn’t fit neatly into today’s Europe vs Middle East categories.
I am a lebanese christian, to me culturally and religiously the greeks 5 meters away in european cyprus and greece are 10 times closer than any islamic arab nation starting with syria and turkey and not ending with ksa and iran
But lets keep lying and pretending i am an arab