A community reduced to “cannon fodder in their efforts to delegitimize Israel.”

The decision of a group of Arabic-speaking Christians in Israel to identify themselves as Arameans—and not as Arabs—has deep roots in their history. By officially. . .

Except in Israel, Christians across the Middle East suffer from lack of religious liberty, increasing persecution, and, in many places, expulsions and mass slaughter. Over. . .

Israel recently decided, at the behest of Christian religious leaders, to recognize those Arabic-speaking Christians who wish to identify themselves as “Arameans.” This has raised. . .

Israel’s Aramean-Christians have finally won official recognition as a community distinct from the Arab-Muslim minority. “I have no words,” says their grateful spiritual leader.