📌"No, we are not Arabs, we are Arameans."
📌"We are helping our people to reconnect back to the roots, to the Aramaic roots, to the Aramaic identity, to know their language, to connect to their forefathers, and it takes time.”
📌"We consider education as a cornerstone for saving our Aramaic language and identity from dying and revitalizing it at one point. Until today, Christians in Israel’s Ministry of Education are learning under Arab curriculum, which means Islamic history, Arab language without studying their own history and Aramaic language. . . This leads to weakness of Christians here, disconnection from our roots and losing our future existence."
🔸Israel’s Christian population is approximately 182,000, and Arameans make up about 120,000 of that total.
Israeli Christian Aramaic Association founder Shadi Khalloul to Heartlander News.
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