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Message Sent: Israel Stands Ready to Defend the Druze
National Security Journal ^ | 7/21/2025 | Eran Ortal

Posted on 07/21/2025 8:36:27 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111

The Druze are a small minority spread between Lebanon, northern Israel, and northern Jordan, with their concentration in southern Syria. Persecuted over the centuries, they are known as fierce fighters that placed their communities on the more mountainous terrain of the Levant for defensive reasons. Another defining feature of the Druze is the principle of loyalty to land and regime. Indeed, so close is the bond between Israel and its small Druze population of approximately 150,000 that most Druze youth serve in the IDF, with many becoming high-ranking officers.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: bedouin; druze; hamas; hezbollah; iran; israel; sweida; syria

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Was this a good idea or not? Israel seems to want to bomb and keep bombing.
1 posted on 07/21/2025 8:36:27 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
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To: whyilovetexas111

Good for them. This kind of thing needs to be handled regionally — without dragging the US into it.


2 posted on 07/21/2025 8:40:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: whyilovetexas111

But not the Christians?


3 posted on 07/21/2025 8:42:01 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: whyilovetexas111

Seeing a flurry of propaganda stories about the IDF as rescuers and protectors in Syria now. The Druze were fine until Israel, CIA and Turkey finally deposed Assad and installed an ISIS man for a leader. The gaslighting is supposed to be dim.... not like an LED floodlight.


4 posted on 07/21/2025 8:52:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

There are Christians in this part of Syria?

I thought they were well away from the northern border of Israel.


5 posted on 07/21/2025 8:55:55 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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