Child registers as Aramean instead of Arab for the first time
Child registers as Aramean instead of Arab for the first time
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For the first time an Israeli Christian registered as Aramean instead of Arab, after Interior Minister Gideon Saar determined that the population registry would recognize a separate Aramean identity for Arab Christians.
Christian IDF Officers Forum leader Lt. (res.) Shadi Halul and his wife from Gush Halav in the Galilee registered their two-year old son on Monday as Christian Aramean.
Christians who identify with the ancient people can now register as Arameans instead of as Arabs.
Transportation Minister Israel Katz congratulated the child on Facebook on Tuesday, saying that this comes “against the background of persecution and destruction of non-Muslim minorities in the region.”
“My two-year old son made history and Gideon Saar made history and the Jewish people finally did justice with other people in this region. Justice we have been waiting for, thousands of years,” Halul said, as reported by The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Ma'ariv Hashavua reported.
Halul, who served as a paratrooper, founded the Aramaic Christian Association in Israel seven years ago with a goal of recognizing the Aramean people, with its own nation, language, and customs. Through this organization he promoted the recruitment of Arameans and Christians into the IDF.
MK Yariv Levin (Likud), who has been arguing for allowing identification as Christian, told the The Jerusalem Post last month that historically Israel treated all minorities as one group – as Arabs, and the Muslims ruled over all of the minorities within the society.
Things are changing, and the Christians in Israel want change and see what is happening to their brethren throughout the Middle East, how they are being persecuted, said Levin.
“They want to be independent, not with [MK] Ahmed Tibi.”
Some Arabs see this as a divide and conquer strategy meant also to boost Arab Christian enrollment in the army.
Israeli aid to Iraq helps Christians persecuted by Is...
For the first time an Israeli Christian registered as Aramean instead of Arab, after Interior Minister Gideon Saar determined that the population registry would recognize a separate Aramean identity for Arab Christians.
Christian IDF Officers Forum leader Lt. (res.) Shadi Halul and his wife from Gush Halav in the Galilee registered their two-year old son on Monday as Christian Aramean.
Christians who identify with the ancient people can now register as Arameans instead of as Arabs.
Transportation Minister Israel Katz congratulated the child on Facebook on Tuesday, saying that this comes “against the background of persecution and destruction of non-Muslim minorities in the region.”
“My two-year old son made history and Gideon Saar made history and the Jewish people finally did justice with other people in this region. Justice we have been waiting for, thousands of years,” Halul said, as reported by The Jerusalem Post's sister publication Ma'ariv Hashavua reported.
Halul, who served as a paratrooper, founded the Aramaic Christian Association in Israel seven years ago with a goal of recognizing the Aramean people, with its own nation, language, and customs. Through this organization he promoted the recruitment of Arameans and Christians into the IDF.
MK Yariv Levin (Likud), who has been arguing for allowing identification as Christian, told the The Jerusalem Post last month that historically Israel treated all minorities as one group – as Arabs, and the Muslims ruled over all of the minorities within the society.
Things are changing, and the Christians in Israel want change and see what is happening to their brethren throughout the Middle East, how they are being persecuted, said Levin.
“They want to be independent, not with [MK] Ahmed Tibi.”
Some Arabs see this as a divide and conquer strategy meant also to boost Arab Christian enrollment in the army.
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