Israeli Druze protest in Tel Aviv against a controversial law defining Israel as the "nation-state of the Jewish people," Aug. 4, 2018. (Credit: AFP)
The video has been widely shared on Syrian social media since Friday. It shows a meeting between representatives of six predominantly Druze villages near the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan Heights in southwestern Syria.The representatives purportedly expressed a preference for living under Israeli rule rather than under the control of the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which, alongside other rebel groups, overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime a little over a week ago.“Even if it’s considered wrong to ask to join the Golan (annexed by Israel), it’s a far lesser evil than what we are experiencing,” a Druze sheikh from the village of Hader reportedly declared an attentive crowd. The video, shared on platforms such as X and subtitled in English, raised questions. It comes after reports from local sources indicated that HTS...
The video has been widely shared on Syrian social media since Friday. It shows a meeting between representatives of six predominantly Druze villages near the Israeli-occupied and annexed Golan Heights in southwestern Syria.The representatives purportedly expressed a preference for living under Israeli rule rather than under the control of the Islamist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which, alongside other rebel groups, overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime a little over a week ago.“Even if it’s considered wrong to ask to join the Golan (annexed by Israel), it’s a far lesser evil than what we are experiencing,” a Druze sheikh from the village of Hader reportedly declared an attentive crowd. The video, shared on platforms such as X and subtitled in English, raised questions. It comes after reports from local sources indicated...
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