Correction, this would surprise you:
Also last year Israel gave the Christians living in Israel the right to call themselves “Arameans”.
Being a Christian seems pretty tough there.
“I’m supporting the bill,” he said. “I would rather be a second-class citizen under a Jewish state than a first-class citizen in an Arab state. “Arab countries don’t have any system. They want to act according to Sharia (Islamic law). Christians have been persecuted all over the world and this is the only country (in the Middle East) that gives me the right to be Christian and practice my rituals.”