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Druze in Syria ‘fear new Isis-like leaders and want Israeli rule’

Jotam Confino
in Tel Aviv
14 December 2024 7:26pm GMT
The residents of a Druze community in southern Syria have expressed a desire to become part of Israel to prevent assaults by “radical Islamists.”

A video circulating on social media shows a gathering of the religious minority in the Syrian village of Hader, in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria which is now fully controlled by the Israeli Defence Force.

“If we have to choose, we will choose the lesser evil. And even if it’s considered evil to ask to be annexed to the [Israeli] Golan, it’s a much lesser evil than the evil coming our way,” a man told a crowd in Arabic, according to a translation by Times of Israel.

The unnamed man said the “evil” coming for the Druze “might take our women, might take our daughters … might take our houses”.

“Bashar al-Assad left. What do we have left? Nothing. We asked to be annexed to the Golan to preserve our dignity,” he continued.

Syria has seen mass celebrations since the fall of Assad last week but some minorities have expressed concern about their future under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of Al Qaeda which has moderated its stance on a variety of issues.

Some 700,000 Druze live in Syria, with about 20,000 in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights adjacent to Hader, where the call to join Israel was made. Another roughly 150,000 Druze live in Israel proper.

One representative of the Druze in Syria told The Telegraph most of his peers do not wish to become part of Israel.

“It’s very surprising,” a Druze resident of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights said, referring to the calls to join the Jewish state.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and annexed the territory in 1981.

Beyond defending themselves from attacks on the areas where they live, Syria’s Druze largely stayed on the sidelines of the civil war.

Many have managed to avoid compulsory conscription since 2011.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/14/druze-in-syria-fear-isis-like-government-want-israeli-rule/

Elusive001:
Druze in Syria ‘fear new Isis-like leaders and want Israeli rule’

Jotam Confino
in Tel Aviv
14 December 2024 7:26pm GMT
The residents of a Druze community in southern Syria have expressed a desire to become part of Israel to prevent assaults by “radical Islamists.”

A video circulating on social media shows a gathering of the religious minority in the Syrian village of Hader, in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria which is now fully controlled by the Israeli Defence Force.

“If we have to choose, we will choose the lesser evil. And even if it’s considered evil to ask to be annexed to the [Israeli] Golan, it’s a much lesser evil than the evil coming our way,” a man told a crowd in Arabic, according to a translation by Times of Israel.

The unnamed man said the “evil” coming for the Druze “might take our women, might take our daughters … might take our houses”.

“Bashar al-Assad left. What do we have left? Nothing. We asked to be annexed to the Golan to preserve our dignity,” he continued.

Syria has seen mass celebrations since the fall of Assad last week but some minorities have expressed concern about their future under Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of Al Qaeda which has moderated its stance on a variety of issues.

Some 700,000 Druze live in Syria, with about 20,000 in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights adjacent to Hader, where the call to join Israel was made. Another roughly 150,000 Druze live in Israel proper.

One representative of the Druze in Syria told The Telegraph most of his peers do not wish to become part of Israel.

“It’s very surprising,” a Druze resident of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights said, referring to the calls to join the Jewish state.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and annexed the territory in 1981.

Beyond defending themselves from attacks on the areas where they live, Syria’s Druze largely stayed on the sidelines of the civil war.

Many have managed to avoid compulsory conscription since 2011.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/14/druze-in-syria-fear-isis-like-government-want-israeli-rule/

Where are those propagandists saying that Israel is killing Christians in Syria? Come and see the same Christians you started loving suddenly, asking for Israeli rule.

Hehehehehe

Forget all the propaganda and campaigns of calumny…..at the end of the day and when push comes to shove people are not stupid and know the judeo-christian civilisation and values are more preferable to the other one! Has anyone noticed how refugees and illegal immigrants from the Muslim middle-east always ignore wealthy Arab countries and instead head towards the ‘sinful’ Christian dominated west when they want to japa!?

IGBOPROMISE1:
Hehehehehe

Forget all the propaganda and campaigns of calumny…..at the end of the day and when push comes to shove people are not stupid and know the judeo-christian civilisation and values are more preferable to the other one! Has anyone noticed how refugees and illegal immigrants from the Muslim middle-east always ignore wealthy Arab countries and instead head towards the ‘sinful’ Christian dominated west when they want to japa!?

It's surprising that they do not consider their fellow Muslims' countries.

Oga Israel is better oohh,its like the west in middle East

NigerianXXX:
They have started the online propaganda to invade Isreal

Watch another orchestrated 0ct 7th happen again to find another excuse to genocide Syria and steal their land.

oct 7 was no excuse.