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World Condemns Israel for Preventing Al Qaeda Genocide of Druze
Daniel Greenfield
July 23, 2025

Recently Al Qaeda/ISIS took over Syria. This development was greeted with cheers from world leaders who had been working toward this very goal from the Arab Spring days. Now, they assured us, Syria would become a democratic paradise full of human rights. Al-Jolani, the former Jihadist leader, made his world tour while Jihadis in Syria began massacring the Druze population. The Druze are a minority group considered illegitimate by Islamists. Israel has a large Druze population which protested in the streets. And Israeli planes struck Al Qaeda government targets in Syria. And the world condemned Israel. There’s been an official ‘ceasefire’ with the Al Qaeda regime in Damascus and videos still keep coming out of Jihadist massacres of Druze. READ MORE

FDD Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Why No States for the Druze or the Kurds?  Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two states while Syria must remain whole. Recent attacks by Islamist jihadist groups on the Druze in southern Syria highlight why non-Arab and non-Muslim minorities need their own sovereign states, independent of the Muslim Arab majority that often claims exclusive rights to sovereignty. Across the Middle East, except in Israel, non-Muslim and non-Arab minorities are steadily shrinking, some disappearing entirely.