Considering the increasingly tragic situation in the region for the Crypto-Jewish ethnic Arameans – both Mandean and Judeo-Christian – and particularly so within Amian Iraq, the establishment of Aramean statehood within the shortest feasible timeframe should hence be considered an urgent ethico-political imperative for every free nation. Aramean statehood in the ancient-modern Land of Aram abutting the Mediterranean Sea should crucially include the famously still Aramaic-speaking town of Ma’loula and a number of other Aramean areas of contemporary Syria, yet the Aramean state would in contrast not extend to many other areas that are historically, culturally, religiously and emotively important to Arameans including Aleppo, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Khabur, Nazareth, Nineveh, Tur Abdin and Urmia. Yet many such areas would become part of federal Israel through various other Israeli federal subjects aside from the Aramean state itself. Political unity would thus indeed be achieved between the future state of Aram and many other ancient Aramean areas in West Asia, fully voluntarily joined together in a new federal Israel.
A successful national political transition for regional/global Aramean ethnicities does indeed require determined geopolitical focus on the Levantine ancient-modern Land of Aram and would once increasingly successfully achieved mean that Aramean demographic presence would probably be greatly reduced or even end in many current and historical Aramean areas of habitation in the region. Yet, this has already happened and is increasingly happening even in the distinct absence of Aramean statehood in the ancient-modern Land of Aram.
Current Arabist/Islamist/Jihadist political attitudes towards the sovereign, indigenous Jewish nation of Israel are in many ways akin to the political attitudes historically held against the old Talmudically Jewish communities of the Arabophonie, constituting the Dalits of the Islamdom. However, the ongoing Arabist/Islamist/Jihadist treatment of the Crypto-Jewish, Judeo-Christian & Mandean Arameans is unfortunately increasingly similar to the very fate suffered by the Talmudic Jews of the Arabophonie in the 20th century.
As a consequence of large-scale Anti-Zionist persecution across the Arabophonie, over 99% among the 850 000 Talmudic Jews outside of Israel in the Arabophonie of 1948, did eventually see little choice but to escape the Arabophonie. Following these very extensive region-wide Anti-Jewish persecutions, land owned privately by local Jewish citizens as well as land owned communally by the ethnically diverse Jewish communities of the Arabophonie, together territorially corresponding to four times the size of Israel, were increasingly confiscated by Arabist regimes without any provision of financial compensation. Yet, it is increasingly clear that many Arameans in the region currently suffer extremely hostile treatment at Arabist/Islamist/Jihadist hands, indeed increasingly similar to that historically experienced by the Talmudic Jews of the Arabophonie in the 20th century, notably even in the distinct absence of exercise of self-determination through a free Aramean state to call their own.
While it is true that many Judeo-Christian Arameans (both Aramaic rite and Greek rite) were indeed displaced as a consequence of Israel’s 1948-49 War of Independence; it is also true that Lebanese political leaders at the time; both some Crypto-Jewish political leaders obviously ignorant of their own Jewish national heritage as well as Muslim Amian political leaders of Grand Liban, chose indeed to participate in the explicitly genocidal Arabist, invading alignment formed against nascent Israel. Even despite the political fact that most Arameans in the region and beyond identify with sovereign, indigenous Israel, Aramean communities remain severely politically exploited by the gargantuan, Saudi-powered, global PLO propaganda & corruption machine while deliberately denying Arameans of Judea and Samaria protection against local Jihadist persecution. In fact, Israel is the only country in West Asia with a significant Aramean community of citizens from which Arameans are not emigrating in proportionally large numbers.
Yet, what ethnic Arameans as a global community need from their Israeli siblings in Jewish nationality are distinctly not any immigration rights to already established Israel or reversal of historical Israeli land reforms. Rather, Israel must strategically and meaningfully assist its Aramean national siblings in two fundamental ways, (1) by following the example of ex-Iraqi de facto independent Kurdistan in establishing a general Aramaic school system in Israel for Aramean-Israeli pupils and (2) by consistently exercising Israel’s regional strategic capacities in ways that will ensure implementation of comprehensive Jordanian/Israeli regional partition simultaneously in Grand Liban and Syria, including establishment of an Aramean state as part of a new, yet fully voluntary Israeli federation.
It would certainly be vastly ethico-politically preferable if this region-wide partition between the Jewish nation and the Amian nation, including inside current Syria & Grand Liban, were indeed to happen entirely as a result of official diplomatic agreements. Yet considering that the current Syrian administration unfortunately remains deeply internally divided on the issue of region-wide partition – with some influential kleptocratic factions with remaining ties to Teheran still seeking to perpetuate kleptocratic Syria merely for their own further personal financial gain. Considering these distinctly unhelpful domestic divisions, conclusive partition in Syria & Grand Liban would otherwise need to happen as a consequence of an ultimately revolutionary fall from power of the current Syrian administration.
Yet, a successful political outcome through comprehensive regional partition, including establishment of Aramean statehood in the ancient-modern Land of Aram, requires constant Israeli geostrategic vigilance against Iranian attempts at interference and Israeli determination if necessary to deploy overwhelming force and rapid dominance against Teheran’s local mercenaries in the region. While Israel’s strategic capacity to facilitate the birth of an Aramean state in the ancient-modern Land of Aram is not in doubt, the matching of Israeli strategic capacity by the leaderships of Aramean and other Crypto-Jewish ethnicities throughout the region and around the world constitutes indeed the determining strategic factor for a desirable & optimal regional political outcome involving self-determination for all, something which Teheran and its stooges of course make every effort to derail.
Yet, there are many cases of historical grievances between various Crypto-Jewish ethnicities such as e.g. between Kurds/Turks, Alawis/Arameans, Arameans/Kurds, Arameans/Turks, Arameans/Druze, Aramaic rite/Greek rite, Eastern/Uniate and so on and so forth. Leaders of many stateless Crypto-Jewish ethnicities therefore need to learn strategically from Israel how to indeed politically transcend a tragic history of statelessness by working together across ethnic and denominational lines in the region and globally, with each other, with Jerusalem and with friendly Crypto-Jewish states. This certainly includes the de facto independent Kurdistan to the north of Amian Iraq, an independent state which has often been bestowed by its enemies with the flattering designation of indeed constituting a second Israel. A successful outcome of regional partition between a federal Israel and a federal Amistan would on the pan-Jewish side thus be secured through the combined strategic clout of Jerusalem and the mobilized political strength of Crypto-Jewish communities throughout the region and the world, both Aramean and non-Aramean working together as one diverse nation and turning diversity into strength.
To meaningfully encourage regional and global leaders of various Crypto-Jewish ethnicities to creatively and innovatively work together across ethnic and denominational lines in spite of various historical grievances, requires indeed articulation of the broader Jewish national interest in the widest, most inclusive and ethical fashion with respect to Crypto-Jewish ethnicities generally, including ultimately with respect to federal national Israeli inclusion of particular Crypto-Jewish ethnicities whose secretive Jewish status still remains distinctly unpublished even here.
Ethical geostrategic articulation of the broader Jewish national interest thus requires thinking both (1) in terms of one’s own specific statehood (whether future or already established) and (2) in terms of an increasingly unified, yet fully voluntary federal Israel of which all Jewish countries should form part. Crypto-Jewish ethnicities that may separately seem rather politically weak could potentially become significantly empowered by thus learning to work closely together for shared pan-Jewish, legitimate national aspirations throughout the broader region for a unified & free federal Israel. While the broader Jewish nation (both Jewish and Crypto-Jewish) is distinctly rich in cultural diversity, Crypto-Jewish ethnic leaders of this very nation do need to find appropriate and indeed ethical ways so as to strategically work together for federal unity in liberty and self-determination. What may indeed seem difficult to achieve for one Crypto-Jewish ethnic community solely on its own, could be very much strategically facilitated by working together across ethnic and denominational lines within the broader house of Israel.
