This is great, but unfortunately over 20 years too late. Now the indigenous Christian population in Israel has dwindled down to about 2%, because the Oslo accord left such ancient Christian communities as Bet Lehem and Bet Jaalah completely at the mercy of the Islamofascists. Those that remain are increasingly taking to speaking Aramaic instead of Arabic, and no longer identify as Palestinian due to their bad treatment.
The ethnic and religious tapestry of Israel is complex and multi-hued, whether we are talking about Christians, Muslims, or Jews, but thanks to the idiot diplomats, it was reduced to Jew and Palestinian. The few dozen Samaritans, the Druze, various Sufist sects, and multiple Christian denominations from Dominican monks to Syrian Christians...are all Palestinians, a made up nationality that somehow encompasses the Kurdish enclave right outside Kiryat Arba, the residents of the Green Mosque neighborhood on the other side of Kiryat Arba who claim to be descendants of Moabites, the numerous distinct ethnicities even among Sunni Muslim Arabs who work in my yishuv, that are obvious even to an untrained eye like mine...Palestinians.
We Jews have many complex ethnic, ideological and religious factions, too. But to those who hate us we are simply Jooos! Our fate is to be something great in the world, and to accomplish that, we need to have greater values than the simple survival of our beleaguered tribe. My own idea is to ally ourselves with other eastern minorities, such as Christians and Druze, for mutual protection and advancement. I call my idea EMA, or Eastern Minorities Alliance.
It’s a pity the nascent Christian community took this long to coalesce, now that so many have abandoned Bet Lehem and other ancient community centers for the West. But these are the cards we’re all dealt. Nothing to do but play them as best we can. Sorry this party didn’t get into the Knesset. The way things are going, elections will become more frequent for the time being. So buck up and try again in a year or so, when the government falls apart again.
Israel has got nothing on the Italians, they’ve been changing governments every six months for the last 70 years.