Druze history is “a part of the still highly disputed story of why so many Arabs left the war zone of the First Arab-Israeli War (AKA Israel’s War of Independence) in 1948”

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Big Druze News You Didn’t Hear About
Sally Prag
December 26, 2024

A few days ago, a number of Druze villages in the Syrian Golan Heights announced that they wanted Israel to annex the area of Syria in which they are located, so that they will be under Israeli rule and thus have their rights protected by Israel. This is big news. Yet it seems the story is being suppressed by Western media. And there’s great significance here…[In 1948] many Druze, concerned for the safety of their families, did leave, but not all. Some, like a small number of Muslim Arabs, decided to listen to the Jewish leaders and stay in their homes. When the war ended with Israel having claimed victory over areas previously designated to the Arabs for an Arab state within the original mandate, which they had declined on the grounds that they wanted the entirety of the mandate to remain Arab, those Arabs who had remained in their homes became Israeli citizens, while those who left became Palestinian refugees. READ MORE

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