As a veteran licensed Israeli tour guide and someone who is simply interested in all the different people and religions groups that dot this ancient land (where I have lived over the past 44 years, 30+ as a citizen), I find the Druze probably the most interesting. They are kind, generous, caring, helpful... Their APPLES (grown on the Golan Heights) are the sweetest and crunchiest I've ever eaten, and boy, can they COOK! And they are loyal to Israel, with many of their men serving in the IDF.
An Israeli historian, Eliezer Tauber, wrote a book about the so-called Deir Yassin massacre called The Massacre that Never Was: The Myth of Deer Yassin and the Creation of the Palestine Refugee Problem (The Toby Press, 2021). It debunks the myth of the massacre and much of the "Palestinian" narrative about the "refugee" problem. Here too there are no two sides with equal historical veracity. But then Muslims hold it okay to lie to advance the cause, the religion, and the conquest of the infidels.
This is a great thing, a great article--but the Druze in Syria are split on this issue. Many large Druze groups in Syria denounce the idea of annexation, and many others want to wait to see what happens in Syria, including some in Israel itself. This is not a slight on the Druze, they are excellent people; I'm quoting from a recent article in the Wall Street Journal on this issue..
Thank you for sharing this very informative article. I follow Mansur Ashkar on several social media platforms. His videos on his YouTube channel are amazing and filled with great details.
I dont want to claim that I understand all the politics but let a democratic vote be taken in that land and if they want to be annexed by Israel, then why not make it so? If we want to make their plight known to the world, why dont we grant them their wish? Seems like a win win situation to me.
Lets not forget the other ally that mainstream media is relatively quiet about and that is the Kurds. They have fought on our side for decades, lets not let Turkey get away with trying to kill them. Frankly, we should be kicking Turkey out of NATO.
It's not entirely accurate to say that Druze people are so pro-Israel (paraphrasing, but that's the gist). From what I've heard from Druze interviewees before Oct. 7, their religion explicitly says that they're not allowed to have a nation-state (or nationalist aspirations at all), and that they must be 'loyal' citizens and follow the laws/etc of whichever nation-state they live in.
Which doesn't negate that some Syrian Druze people want to be part of Israel (without moving to Israel); it does give some context to Israeli Druze people who enthusiastically/voluntarily participate in things (like the draft) that they're not obligated to do.
It is good that the so-called main stream media ignores the Druze. The msm is so untruthful and hypocritical, that if they all of a sudden started paying attention, I would immediately be wary of their reporting. I would immediately start looking for their "angle". How will they use this against Israel. Re the areas in question, station IDF troops on a line to the east of all of these villages (including the very top of Mt. Hermon), call it a " buffer zone", annex later.
This is a story that the anti-Zionists/antisemites don't want to hear and certainly won't read this article because it destroys their false narrative of Israel as the bad guy in the region.
The Druze, like the Alawites, Mandeans, Yazidis, Samaritans etc are odd ducks. Full of all sorts of weird beliefs and secret rituals. Fun fact, Druze revere a guy who was basically Arab-Egyptian Caligula as well as Plato and Pythagoras. I wouldn’t be surprised if they manufacture a reason to open the books up, too many going off the reservation.
Excellent article & for those who are interested here is Mansur Ashkar talking about the Syrian Druze dilemma : https://youtu.be/dAMnjOsqIvI?feature=shared. How lucky are we to have individuals like Mansur to defend Israel both physically & verbally
As a veteran licensed Israeli tour guide and someone who is simply interested in all the different people and religions groups that dot this ancient land (where I have lived over the past 44 years, 30+ as a citizen), I find the Druze probably the most interesting. They are kind, generous, caring, helpful... Their APPLES (grown on the Golan Heights) are the sweetest and crunchiest I've ever eaten, and boy, can they COOK! And they are loyal to Israel, with many of their men serving in the IDF.
An Israeli historian, Eliezer Tauber, wrote a book about the so-called Deir Yassin massacre called The Massacre that Never Was: The Myth of Deer Yassin and the Creation of the Palestine Refugee Problem (The Toby Press, 2021). It debunks the myth of the massacre and much of the "Palestinian" narrative about the "refugee" problem. Here too there are no two sides with equal historical veracity. But then Muslims hold it okay to lie to advance the cause, the religion, and the conquest of the infidels.
The Myth of Deir Yassin and not, as thought the computer, Deer Yassin.
One error in this article. Israeli Druse, unlike other Israeli Arabs, are subject to the military draft, at the community's insistence.
This is a great thing, a great article--but the Druze in Syria are split on this issue. Many large Druze groups in Syria denounce the idea of annexation, and many others want to wait to see what happens in Syria, including some in Israel itself. This is not a slight on the Druze, they are excellent people; I'm quoting from a recent article in the Wall Street Journal on this issue..
Thank you for sharing this very informative article. I follow Mansur Ashkar on several social media platforms. His videos on his YouTube channel are amazing and filled with great details.
I dont want to claim that I understand all the politics but let a democratic vote be taken in that land and if they want to be annexed by Israel, then why not make it so? If we want to make their plight known to the world, why dont we grant them their wish? Seems like a win win situation to me.
Lets not forget the other ally that mainstream media is relatively quiet about and that is the Kurds. They have fought on our side for decades, lets not let Turkey get away with trying to kill them. Frankly, we should be kicking Turkey out of NATO.
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It's not entirely accurate to say that Druze people are so pro-Israel (paraphrasing, but that's the gist). From what I've heard from Druze interviewees before Oct. 7, their religion explicitly says that they're not allowed to have a nation-state (or nationalist aspirations at all), and that they must be 'loyal' citizens and follow the laws/etc of whichever nation-state they live in.
Which doesn't negate that some Syrian Druze people want to be part of Israel (without moving to Israel); it does give some context to Israeli Druze people who enthusiastically/voluntarily participate in things (like the draft) that they're not obligated to do.
It is good that the so-called main stream media ignores the Druze. The msm is so untruthful and hypocritical, that if they all of a sudden started paying attention, I would immediately be wary of their reporting. I would immediately start looking for their "angle". How will they use this against Israel. Re the areas in question, station IDF troops on a line to the east of all of these villages (including the very top of Mt. Hermon), call it a " buffer zone", annex later.
This is a story that the anti-Zionists/antisemites don't want to hear and certainly won't read this article because it destroys their false narrative of Israel as the bad guy in the region.
The Druze, like the Alawites, Mandeans, Yazidis, Samaritans etc are odd ducks. Full of all sorts of weird beliefs and secret rituals. Fun fact, Druze revere a guy who was basically Arab-Egyptian Caligula as well as Plato and Pythagoras. I wouldn’t be surprised if they manufacture a reason to open the books up, too many going off the reservation.
Excellent article & for those who are interested here is Mansur Ashkar talking about the Syrian Druze dilemma : https://youtu.be/dAMnjOsqIvI?feature=shared. How lucky are we to have individuals like Mansur to defend Israel both physically & verbally