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1. What are their "weird beliefs"? Are they a Muslim sect? I could never figure out and to me it's pretty intransparent.
2. What's your life plan, what's your plan for your descendants? Shall they long term be cut off from your 2000 years old roots in Syria? Someone that makes such a deep cut like an emigration will likely have some thoughts on that.
3. Considering that there originally were no Arabs in Syria and Lebanon and they came to there at a stage where they were Muslims only and Arabised the indigenous population, do you as an indigenous to Syria Christian identify without reservations as an Arab?
4. What language did the majority of your ancestors speak prior to the Arab expansion?
5. How deeply rooted had the Greek language become after the pre Roman Hellenism and the Roman Empire including succeding Byzantine Greek language sphere? That ought to be roughly 1500 years.
6. Does your appreciation for Cyprus have anything to do with you feeling it to be a proxy for your own origin as Eastern Mediterranean Hellenised (maybe) Christians?
7. What religious belief did the majority of your ancestors have prior to the expansion of Christianity?
8. What's your opinion on the medieval Crusades in your region including the founding of various respective states?
9. What's your opinion on the founding of a Jewish state like Israel in the region?
10. Do you consider and perceive Ashkenazi Jews indigenous to the Levant?
11. What's your opinion on alien to the region Turks hailing ultimately from Central Asia coming and ruling also your area for centuries?
12. What's your opinion on Arabs (today ethnic Arabs or say traditional Arabic speakers) being split up in many states? Is it good or bad?
13. What's your opinion and what are your feelings regarding Malta that is an Arabic speaking fully Christian (Catholic) state?
14. How important is the Arabic script for your - likely Arab - identity? Could you imagine to relate to the Latin letters like Maltese use them for their Arabic language? Or even to Greek letters? (Both letters could even be considered having been - at least partially - existent in Syria before Arabic letters, although not before the Aramaic letters from which also the Arab ones are derived.)
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