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“Many Christian families living in Iraq and Syria are in poverty, and cannot afford proper celebrations,” said Capt. (res.) Shadi Khalloul, the head of the Israeli Christian Aramaic NGO and spokesman of the Christian Israel Defense Forces Officers Forum. ....
“This has nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict, but is about money and power. Why are no Arab politicians in Jerusalem protesting? It is because they are focused on gaining power and prestige,” said Rodayna Badir, an expert on Arab society in Israel. ....
Israel’s Ynet news portal at the weekend ran a story on some of the fringe political parties that have persevered election after election (and there’ve been quite a few of late) in trying to win seats in the Knesset. We rearranged the title and focus of that article to better suit the interests of our Christian readers ahead of the March 23 vote. Most of the media surveys only include the dozen or so parties expected to pass the electoral threshold and actually be represented in the 24th Knesset. But there are actually a whopping 39 parties running. And that doesn’t come close to the record 47(!) parties that ran in the April 2019 election. ....