During a final session of the Lebanese Parliament, a Marada Maronite MP states his identity as an Arab: "I, the Maronite Christian Lebanese Arab, grandson of Patriarch Estefan Doueihy, declare my pride to be a part of our people's resistance in the South.
The Maronite Christian residents of Jish have recently begun to mainly relate to themselves as Aramean Christian Maronite peoples and not as Arabs or Lebanese Arabs [REF].