Posted on 10/21/2014 5:20:22 AM PDT by SJackson
The law instituting the Aramean nationality passed on September 18, creating an officially recognized Christian minority group.
The first Israeli to register under the new Israeli Aramaean nationality is two-year-old Yaakov Halul, the son of Aramaic leaders in Northern Israel.
The child’s parents, Sha’di and Oxana Halul, waited two years after their son's birth to register his nationality, so he could officially register as Aramaean, as opposed to Arab. They finally registered the child as Aramean earlier this week. Sha’di Halul serves as a captain in an IDF reserves paratroopers unit and is head of the Aramaic Masonite Heritage Center, an Aramean-Christian organization in Israel.
The law instituting the Aramean nationality, passed on September 18, creating an officially recognized Christian minority group, by decreeing that not all Christians should be classified under the “Arab” nationality. Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar ordered that the population registry then recognize Christians as “Aramaean,” if they so choose that identity. The move gave Christians their own representation on the Advisory Committee for Equal Opportunity in Employment Commission.
Many Arabs, and some factions of the Israeli Christian population were opposed to the legislation as they believed the law is divisive towards minorities living within Israel, because it separates Christians from the Arabs.
The Church further believes that this division weakens Palestinians. Some also believe that the law is a ploy to recruit Arab Palestinian Christians to join the Israeli Defense Forces and create internal divisions and tensions among Palestinian Christians, as well as between Muslims, Palestinians and Christian Arabs.
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A Christian has less in common with a Palestinian Muslim, than that Muslim has in common with a blond, blue-eyed Chechen.
That is a VERY interesting development.
This move is a direct result of the persecution of Christians in Egypt and the PA-occupied parts of Judea, Sumeria, and Gaza.
Note that the “Church” (which one?) leaders oppose this; unlike most USA Christians, the Christians of the area are generally virulently anti-Semitic, due to some sort of Stockholm Syndrome, I think.
That is the point. The Christians need to separate from the moslem arabs. If they don't they face extinction.
EMA (Eastern Minorities Alliance) marches on. Church leaders would publicly oppose it because to publicly support it would mean reprisals from the Muslims. All the more reason for the legislation, and all the more reason that EMA is inevitable.
> The child’s parents, Sha’di and Oxana Halul, waited two years after their son’s birth to register his nationality, so he could officially register as Aramaean, as opposed to Arab... Sha’di Halul serves as a captain in an IDF reserves paratroopers unit and is head of the Aramaic Masonite Heritage Center, an Aramean-Christian organization in Israel.
The article goes on to say that ‘the church’ opposes this new designation as it undermines Palestine.
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