The first potential tipping point would be constituted by increasingly consensual recognition within Syria’s powerful (mostly Amian-speaking and variously ethnically Crypto-Jewish; Alawi, Aramean, Druze and Ismaili) economic & political elite that the economic-political situation of status quo ante bellum in Syria cannot realistically be once more restored, thus politically transforming region-wide diplomatic partition between a federal Amistan & a federal Israel from the option of last resort for Syria’s remaining economic rejectionists into a consensual option of political preference for Syria’s rulers.
The second possible tipping point would be subsequent to strategic, domestic military defeat for the Syrian regime, including potentially as following upon significant foreign strategic provision of heavy weaponry to the Sunni Amian revolt, hence leading to diplomatic partition as the best conceivable outcome for all, including for members of the regime itself. While the ethnically Crypto-Jewish – yet esoterically uninitiated – Alawi political elite in Syria in recent decades wanted the Mediterranean Alawi region to become an Iranian, so to speak “French-style” satellite protectorate in the event of Sunni Amian political takeover in Syria, this is no longer a viable strategic option for the Alawi-dominated Syrian leadership, considering shall I say the much less than promising political prospects for the Iranian regime and the fact that Alawi state accession to a federal Israel would be vastly preferable for the Crypto-Jewish Alawi people & leadership in every sense, including not least economically.
Yet, many political & economic leaders who are influential in the Syrian administration still remain somewhat skeptical with regard to Jerusalem’s regional intentions. It is hence very important to constructively & rather diplomatically so address these very concerns so as to end the war in Syria as soon as possible. The Pan-Jewish nation is one that has long been suppressed and the peoples of significant Crypto-Jewish majority lands in Syria and beyond in the broader region would therefore be welcome at some point to fully voluntarily join a new Pan-Jewish Union of Israel. Accession to federal Israel would not be immediate for the simple reason that an increasingly unified federal nation of Israel must be an advanced democracy founded on a dynamically evolving open society & and a dynamic ethical-entrepreneurial economy.
The political process of accession to federal-democratic Israel should therefore correctly be viewed as constituting an essential part of a future broader process of general shift of political paradigm towards open society & advanced democracy in the broader region beyond the current, increasingly hegemonic, imperialist Islamist political paradigm in Islamdom. While there is indeed a widespread misconception in this broader region that advanced democracy is achieved instantly through mere holding of elections, yet elections alone -however free and fair- certainly do not automatically generate open society which is the societal basis of every advanced democracy. Federal Israel will thus be built from within the Union of Israel which in contrast will be an intergovernmental organization of regional cooperation.
While Israeli governments like other governments of advanced democracies are certainly not infallible and sometimes do make mistakes, no one can question Israel’s universal commitment to the wellbeing of Jewish communities everywhere. However, Ankara, Moscow, Ramallah, Riyadh and Tehran have been aware of the existence of Crypto-Jewish peoples across the broader region for decades now. Yet, Israel’s intelligence community unfortunately remained quite bizarrely unaware of this pivotal, broader region-wide dimension of Pan-Jewish esoteric ethnicity during the course of the 20th century and some years beyond. Obviously, Israel would not had unilaterally redeployed the way it did away from Aramean/Druze Crypto-Jewish regions in Grand Liban in 1949, 1978, 1983, 1985 and 2000, had Jerusalem been aware of this esoteric ethno-religious Pan-Jewish nature of things in the broader region at the time of these unilateral Israeli military redeployments.
Erudite scholars of comparative religion are well aware that secretive/esoteric religion is certainly not an exceptional or even uncommon phenomenon in the region & globally and is one which is particularly difficult to study through superficial, conventional non-Straussian methodologies since most things in esoteric religion tend to be based on plausible deniability pertaining to religious dissimulation often but not necessarily, so as to ensure collective discursive security from externally imposed persecution. Obviously, this pivotally important field of scientific inquiry is no longer a neglected academic discipline in Israel’s intelligence community and hence also Israel’s official, warm and heartfelt message to Damascene Alawis that they (as they are ethnically Pan-Jewish) are indeed most welcome to seek refuge on the Israeli Golan - implicitly as a first stop en route to the northern Alawi region – in the event that the regime were to implode and Alawis outside the Alawi region subsequently threatened by retributive Amian attempted genocide against Crypto-Jewish ethnicities in Syria. Israel is a global power and has a Pan-Jewish responsibility to look after the best interest & wellbeing of all the various culturally distinctive peoples of the Pan-Jewish nation, including obviously the Aramean people.
Fully voluntary, Pan-Jewish region-wide democratic unification is a shared Pan-Jewish national interest for all the various distinctive peoples of the Pan-Jewish nation in the wider region, yet this very democratic unification is quite multilayered considering that there are administrative, cultural, defensive, discursive, economic, ethnic, historical, idiomatic, legal, paradigmatic, psychological, religious and strategic aspects to Pan-Jewish democratic unification in addition to specifically diplomatic ones. Yet, Pan-Jewish democratic unification certainly does not mean that any people or denomination of any member state of federal Israel should seek to impose its religious standards on other ethnicities & denominations of the Pan-Jewish nation. It requires however publically acknowledging at some point in the future that Pan-Jewish nationality is not reducible to (a) any single religious denomination, to (b) any religiously defined “personal status”, to (c) any particular ethnicity or even just some Pan-Jewish ethnicities and that rather, human members of the many culturally distinctive peoples of the Pan-Jewish nation together share an ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality.
Universal unified idiomatic statehood is about truly achieving self-determination for all human peoples & nations and thus ending quests for ethnic/religious domination over others. Yet, the Pan-Jewish nation is culturally, ethnically and religiously quite diverse and many such societal distinctions must of course be treated with a great amount of respect. However, it is essential to understand that the national transition of democratic unification from being part of mutually very much divided, more or less secretively esoteric Jewish ethnic groups and towards publically & collectively reclaiming a shared, universal ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality – will indeed in itself constitute a significant shift of political paradigm in the broader region. This Pan-Jewish, democratically unifying shift of paradigm will also crucially help engender a broader democratic shift of paradigm in the broader region even beyond Crypto-Jewish lands. This is so as dynamic economic & democratic developments in Crypto-Jewish lands as pertaining to Pan-Jewish democratic integration will in time ultimately spread to various neighboring nations beyond the Pan-Jewish nation, nations who like some Crypto-Jewish peoples such as the Pashtuns are currently more or less afflicted with that particular tragic and distinctly modern, yet very reactionary, political pathology that is the paradigmatic Islamist ideological dead end of political & religious tyranny as globally engineered by the Islamist Nexus of Evil.
Yet, the length of the political transition from union to federation will of course crucially depend on the pace of domestic developments in particular Crypto-Jewish candidate lands for membership in federal-democratic Israel. The political nature of this transition is something that concerns some in the Syrian administration who are still somewhat suspicious of Israel and who even fear that Jerusalem might “take revenge” for recent history, particularly the bizarre collaboration with genocidal enemies of Jewish nationhood. Yet, universal unified idiomatic statehood is about the future and making the pivotal transition away from a tragic past to a very different ethico-political future of universal self-determination for all.
There will indeed need to be a nationwide Pan-Jewish process of truth & reconciliation similar to the one in South Africa after Apartheid as the Pan-Jewish nation is one that for so many centuries has been politically segregated from within by intrusive religious imperialism emanating from both Europe & Arabia. Those who committed very serious political mistakes will indeed in time need to publically apologize as part of this Pan-Jewish national process of truth & reconciliation. Political leaders of descendants of no longer living collective perpetrators of wholly indefensible political acts will in time similarly need to publically express their profound sorrow for the full extent of such entirely indefensible acts committed by deceased predecessors, including at some point as pertaining to the Seyfo genocide committed against the Aramean people since the 1890’s.
Yet, Pan-Jewish democratic unification, albeit constituting a future shift of paradigm is a process that in no way is instant or automatic. This means that every Crypto-Jewish land will have its own process of accession to federal Israel at its own particular domestic pace, subsequent to public reclamation of ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality. When these Pan-Jewish lands/peoples formally enter the gate of treaty accession to federal-democratic Israel, they will do so as advanced democracies, open societies and ethical-entrepreneurial economies acting freely out of popular free will for Pan-Jewish democratic unification. The constituent member states of federal-democratic Israel will be legal equals and each member state will be entitled to forever preserve its own distinctive, yet obviously perpetually evolving cultural character, including by means – when is so preferred – through (1) member state-specific citizenship, (2) member state border controls and (3) member state-specific laws & policies on inter-national & intra-federal entry and immigration. Even so, every member in dispersal of any particular Pan-Jewish people should be entitled to immigrate to one actual or future Israeli federal member state.
Some Crypto-Jewish lands will thus stay mere members of the union longer than other Crypto-Jewish lands before subsequently joining the federation, yet each Crypto-Jewish land/people will need to carefully manage its own process of transition & accession while proactively learning from other prospective and actual Israeli federal member states (as well as from EU accession history) in these important political respects. This political process is about Pan-Jewish unification for advanced democracy, yet Pan-Jewish region-wide integration leading to accession to federal-democratic Israel must be gradual as well as of course mutually, consensually and trustfully agreed between the various culturally distinctive peoples of the Pan-Jewish nation.
Much like ancient Biblical Israel was an ethnically diverse tribal federation with twelve ethnic units, so will federal-democratic Israel be a fully voluntary federation of culturally diverse Pan-Jewish peoples of ancient-modern Pan-Jewish nationality. (1) Advanced democratic self-determination of Pan-Jewish peoplehood (Alawi people, Albanian people, Aramean people, etc.) will be exercised at the level of titular member states of federal Israel (unified Alawi state, unified Albania, unified Aram, etc.) while (2) advanced democratic self-determination of Pan-Jewish nationhood will be exercised through the federal parliament & federal government in the officially multi-idiomatic federal Israeli capital territory in Jerusalem.
It is also crucial to understand that a free Aram as fully open to Aramean immigration will be no less culturally, ethnically, genetically, politically and religiously diverse than is in fact the Aramean people itself. The denominationally endogamous modern Aramean people is (a) quite geographically dispersed while (b) constituting a significant number of various distinctive Aramean denominational communities, various distinctive Aramean ethnicities and various distinctive Aramean subspecies as most Arameans are descendants of geographically quite scattered, yet also culturally, ethnically and genetically diverse Aramaic-speaking Jews of Antiquity which prominently included the natively Aramaic-speaking Jewish Jesus and most other Galilee Jews.
Many of these Aramaic-speaking Jewish ancestors married Aramaic-speaking converts to ancient Judaism from which early Christianity emerged. Many such ancient Aramaic-speaking Jewish communities practiced Hellenist Judaism and therefore also knew Greek in addition to Aramaic and Hebrew. The Aramean-Hellenist Melkite churches are now like their fellow Arameans of Aramaic rite mostly demographically Crypto-Jewish as Aramean communities of pagan origin throughout the region have been almost entirely Islamized. While Christianity generally is a form of evolved Hellenist Judaism, both Alevis/Alawis and Aramean Melkite denominations are also the modern-day Hellenist Jewry that survived so many centuries of intrusive religious imperialism.
The Aramaic idiom was (as was in ancient Biblical times the Ammonite/Canaanite/Edomite/Hebrew/Moabite/Phoenician/Punic idiom in the Levant) indeed the predominant idiom for many of the peoples in the Fertile Crescent for so many centuries, including for most Jewish communities in the region and particularly so in late Antiquity. Yet, like their Crypto-Jewish Kurdish immediate neighbors, Eastern Aramaic-speaking Judeo-Christian Arameans are also to some extent partially descendants of the Hebrew-speaking ten Israelite tribe deported to the region from the land of Israel.
A free, united & democratically advanced Aram will indeed be quite culturally, ethnically, genetically and religiously diverse with (1) the staunchly freedom-loving Crypto-Jewish Maronite Arameans, with (2) the Crypto-Jewish Mandeans suffering so much under Islamist oppression & persecution, with Arameans of (3) Melkite Greek rite and (4) of Syriac Aramaic rite, with (6) Uniate and (7) non-Uniate, with (8) many of the now quite openly Judeo-Christian six million Arameans of India’s southern state of Kerala, with (9) the Muslim & (10) Judeo-Christian Aramean Maloula area of Crypto-Jewish Arameans including (11) Aramaic-speaking Melkites, with (12) speakers of Aramaic including (13) Eastern Aramaic, (14) Southern Aramaic and (15) Western Aramaic, with (16) speakers of Amian, with (17) speakers of the Malayalam literary dialect of the South Dravidian idiom, with (18) émigré speakers of different idioms that are official in various liberal democracies, with (19) many Crypto-Jewish Druze areas that are non-connectible in terms of absence of human geographic contiguity with a restored free Druze state in the Druze Mountain region, with (20) the on average socio-economically relatively low-achieving as compared to Judeo-Christian Arameans, yet still Aramean Christian demographic remnants of historically ex-pagan Christian Aramean communities within an otherwise now almost entirely Judeo-Christian remaining Aramean people, with (21) the Aramean various Crypto-Jewish subspecies of which Mandean Arameans are the most socio-economically high-achieving, with (22) non-Aramean Pan-Jewish citizens, with (23) local Armenians, with (24) local Amian minorities (25) Sunni and (26) Twelver Shia, with (27 the endogamous Greek Muslim Lebanese Crypto-Jewish community, with (28) Protestant Arameans and with some other Islamized, yet still (29) Crypto-Jewish Aramean and (30) Crypto-Jewish non-Aramean communities.
Just like the very few remaining Aramean Christian communities of ethnically pagan origin are part and parcel of the now almost entirely Judeo-Christian remaining Aramean people, so shall all Arameans in dispersal & citizens of Aram be free to retain their own particular heritage and if they so desire become part of the Western Aramean story of defiant peoplehood & democratic statehood. Being Pan-Jewish does of course not make the Aramean people any less Aramean, on the contrary so, being Aramean is one of quite many ways of being Pan-Jewish as Pan-Jewish nationality is certainly not reducible to merely Talmudically Jewish cultural expression or identity.
And yes in the affirmative, the Judeo-Christian Arameans are the original, indigenous Christians in the region and are in fact the indigenous people of the original Judeo-Christian church. The Aramaic idiom is of course also the closest living relative of the Hebrew idiom and the free Aram will furthermore be the only territorial neighbor of Judah (contemporary Israel renamed) within federal-democratic Israel aside from the federal Israeli capital territory in Jerusalem. One who already knows one of the two idioms can easily learn to read and understand the other without too much effort as most male contemporary Orthodox Jews do learn how to read & in fact extremely well understand Talmudic Aramaic of the Gemara, i.e. Aramaic rabbinical commentary to the Hebrew Mishnah, the oldest layer of text in the two Talmuds. While the Gemara of the Jerusalem Talmud is written in Western Aramaic, the Gemara of the Babylonian Talmud is written in Eastern Aramaic. Although Aramaic has a long regional history and was used by many different peoples, including as a lingua franca in the region, the Jewish Jesus and the Jewish John as revered by Mandean Arameans were in effect the first founders of the modern Aramean people as modern Arameans have remained no less genuinely Jewish than were in fact these historically very prominent symbolic first founding fathers of the modern Aramean people that is now thirsting for freedom of dignity in democratic self-determination.
Collective Judeo-Christian Aramean ethnic identity (“Christian communities of Jewish ancestry”) as culturally transmitted across the generations remained the shared & in fact historically accurate, indigenous historical narrative of Judeo-Christian Arameans before the divisive & historically most tragic intrusive activities of Western missionaries in the region in the 19th century. Western Anti-Jewish prejudice at the time was thus probably the predominant motivation in seeking to colonially divide the Aramean people and imposing de-Judaizing, anachronistic imperialist identities. The emergence of modern Muslim neo-imperialism (Arabism/Islamism etc.) with its usually burning genocidal hatred for all things Jewish, further entrenched these colonially imposed imperialist divisions. The esoterically initiated Judeo-Christian elite clergy of Aramean churches, albeit outwardly practicing some amount of religious dissimulation in terms of exoteric identity in accordance with historico-political circumstances so as to protect the Aramean people from persecution – have indeed always known the truth about Jesus’ Pan-Jewish Aramean people.
The immigration of eastern ethnicities of the modern Aramean people from the land of the two rivers to a free Western Aramean state in the land of Aram will thus in a sense be a completion & indeed fulfillment of the ancient narrative & dream that descendants of the deported ten Israelite tribes will one day return home to the (broader) land of Israel, although it should be added that most Aramaic-speaking ethnically Talmudic Jews of Kurdistan & Iranian Azerbaijan who also partially share this ten-tribes descent (and whose villages often were not far from those of Judeo-Christian Arameans speaking phonetically similar Aramaic dialects), have in fact already long since immigrated to sovereign-indigenous Israel. There are thus dozens of Israeli villages that to this day are still natively tri-idiomatic in Aramaic, Hebrew and Kurdish.
As the ten tribes deported from the land of Israel to the land of Ashur were subject to significant Assyrian cultural influence, in addition to many other cultural & genetic historical influences throughout history on the diverse – now mostly Crypto-Jewish – remaining Aramean people (such as Alevi Hellenist Jewish, ancient Hellenist Jewish, Arabian, Armenian, British, Byzantine, Canaanite, Crusader, Egyptian, Esoterically Pan-Jewish, French, Hellenist, Judean, Kurdish, Median, Muslim, Ottoman, Pagan Aramean, Persian, Phoenician, Pre-Christian, Pre-Talmudic, Roman, Talmudic, Talmudically Aramean, Turkish, Zaza etc.); there is thus also some limited cultural element of truth even to the Neo-Assyrian narrative. While it is true that many Jewish communities of Antiquity converted to otherwise endogamous Judeo-Christian denominational communities of Greek rite & Aramaic rite and did so out of Messianic faith – yet remaining fully Jewish – others certainly did so in order so as to survive Roman/Byzantine persecution.
Simultaneous diplomatic partition of Grand Liban, including crucially the emergence of a democratic Aram is most pivotal for a successful peaceful outcome of diplomatic partition in Syria. Although for some time still somewhat discreet, yet very substantial international diplomatic support for unified Aramean statehood is also of great importance so as to indeed ensure a peaceful negotiated diplomatic outcome of conclusive partition across and beyond Greater Syria between a federal Israel and a federal Amistan.
Yet, for those influential Alawis in and around the Syrian administration who still remain somewhat skeptical of early diplomatic partition, things are in a sense more straightforward for them than for their Judeo-Christian Aramean colleagues in power in Syria since the Alawis can obviously ultimately flee/retreat to the topographic security of the mountains of the Mediterranean Alawi region (the Armenian Diaspora which is particularly demographically well represented in Syria is entitled to automatic immigration to independent Armenia under Armenian law), yet for Judeo-Christian Arameans of various denominations in Syria – Melkite and Syriac – this is no game but a matter of sheer survival, both culturally and physically that should not be diplomatically belittled in any form or shape whether directly or indirectly. The tragic historical heritage of European imperialism has made international political support for indigenous Christians in the Middle East something of a Western political taboo beyond mere Eastern Christian exile groups & organized American Talmudic Jewry. Yet, the indigenous Arameans of Syria deserve security of property & life no less than do Sunni Amian citizens of that completely arbitrary European colonial construction that is Syria.
There will be no peaceful diplomatic outcome in Syria unless most indigenous Judeo-Christian Aramean economic/political leaders (Melkite & Syriac) who remain influential in the Syrian administration are indeed truthfully persuaded that Grand Liban will in fact be diplomatically partitioned simultaneously with Syria between a federal Amistan and a federal Israel, including through a mutual Syrian-Lebanese exchange of territory and that the Judeo-Christian Arameans – Melkite and Syriac – will not be politically manipulated into once more ultimately ending up stateless & dispossessed on the losing end of brutal regional power politics. Self-determination for the indigenous Aramean people in the land of Aram and Aramean personal & communal security generally in the region are thus an issue of great international, ethico-political & strategic regional significance for international peace & security.
To address mutually legitimate entitlement to self-determination to be mutually exercised through mutual idiomatic statehood for both the demographic 40% Crypto-Jewish regional majorities & the 60% Amian overall demographic majorities in Syria & Grand Liban – does truly mean respecting the region’s diverse cultural heritage & the legitimate concerns of both broader multiethnic nations in the broader region, Jews and Amians. Indeed, establishment of an ethnically and genetically diverse and religiously inclusive free Aram is one very important part of the cultural mosaic of conclusive region-wide partition between a federal Israel and a federal Amistan, serving indeed the noble, universal cause of ultimate establishment of advanced democratic perpetual peace throughout the region.
Yet, as some regional polities that publically identify as existential enemies of sovereign Jewish nationhood have been aware for decades now of the presence of Crypto-Jewish peoples across the broader region, including the various Crypto-Jewish peoples who emerged from medieval Jewish Khazaria such as the Khazari-speaking (Balkar-Karachay-Kumyk) Pan-Jewish Khazar people itself – Pan-Jewish traditional identities of various distinctive Crypto-Jewish peoples across the broader region should indeed be treated seriously & with appropriate respect for their ancient, ancestral historical narratives. European imperialists & Muslim neo-imperialists have tended to publically describe the broader Middle East as being mutually exclusively demographically divided between Christians, Jews and Muslims when in fact such distinctions constitute mutually overlapping cultural, ethnic, genetic, national, religious, social and taxonomic layers in much of West Asia and beyond, including partly so inside the evil Iranian polity whose pathologically Anti-Jewish, Nazi-style Judeocentric tyrants fear Pan-Jewish democratic unification more than anything else.
Considering the historically institutionalized officially inferior Jewish civic status as the untouchables of Muslim civilization, the peoples in Islamdom whose popular traditions claim Pan-Jewish descent should generally be believed (although not necessarily entirely literally so since the various Pan-Jewish peoples stem from different historical periods) as their general claims to Pan-Jewish descent are generally genuine. It does not make sense in any way to suddenly ex nihilo invent an elaborate genealogy claiming kinship with the socially and historically most disparaged & looked down upon human population segment in so many societies of Islamdom in the broader region and it certainly would not hypothetically make sense to continue to perpetuate such a prior invented genealogy after already having lived under Muslim imperialism for many centuries. Pan-Jewish identification & Crypto-Jewish ethnicity have been so widely retained precisely because Pan-Jewish nationality is indeed the shared ancient-modern nationality of the very real Pan-Jewish nation.
This is so considering that although Talmudic Jews have historically been culturally very much structurally disparaged, both in Islamdom & in Euro-Christendom, Euro-Christian Judeocentric Anti-Jewish prejudice considered Jews as ostensibly dangerous & evil and is indeed historically quite distinct from the lowliest of the lowly status as structurally marginal, sometimes “protected”, yet still severely oppressed & publically humiliated untouchables for the overtly Jewish Dhimmis of Islamdom. However, this status was quite similar to the political status of Crypto-Jewish Alawis in Ottoman times. The fact that Anti-Jewish prejudice of dual civilizational origins from within Islamdom & Christendom converged and even merged during the 20th century – as Muslim Anti-Jewish prejudice turned Judeocentric with coming of modernity – does not in any way alter this broader historical Pan-Jewish picture of Pan-Jewish peoples in Islamdom.
The general situation is good for the almost entirely Judeo-Christian Aramean people in both Israel and Jordan and conclusive partition of Greater Syria between a federal Israel and a Federal Amistan is thus the best possible, conceivable political outcome for Syriac & Melkite Arameans of of Syria & Lebanon. This is so whether as ethnic components of a Pan-Jewish national minority in member states of a federal Amistan led by the responsibly pro-democratic Jordanian royal family, as ethnic minorities in various democratic member states of federal Israel or indeed as constituting part of a vast Aramean majority among human citizens of a prosperous and democratically advanced free Aram.
