By “Israel, annex us,” the Druze meant this…

By Geoffrey Clarfield

I recommend this article from a well informed former Muslim

Anjuli Pandavar writing in Murtadd to Human

British men obey the law even as they watch their daughters being raped! The Druze are not such men. They know that if they wait for laws to be enforced, by the time anything gets done, their wives will be raped and killed and their daughter hauled off into sex-slavery. They have an added reason to not be such men: when the jihad slaughter of the Syrian Druze got underway a few days ago, those in power in the West were caught with their pants down, paralysed by dreams of talks and deals and accords with an arch jihad mass-murderer—lessons forgotten in the learning.

When in December 2024, the Syrian Druze pleaded, “Israel, annex us,” most Israeli citizens were, quite frankly, star-struck that, in the midst of frenzied worldwide anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hysteria, an Arab people so unequivocally wanted to throw their lot in with Israel.

. . . the Israeli government fell into the trap of thinking that the presence of the IDF so close to Damascus and the explicit warning to Al-Jolani’s government that their armed forces will not be tolerated south of Damascus, would deter them from attacking the Druze. This mistake can only be made in the context of a failure to recognise a Muslim religious war, jihad. If there is an obstacle to killing non-Muslims, a way around it will be found. Jihad is an imperative.

Unfortunately for Israel and the IDF, who think only in kinetic warfare terms, and gratuitously restrain themselves beyond the requirements of International Law, Al-Jolani put Israel’s commitment to the test, and he would do so by means of psychological and ideological warfare, something that Israel only partially, reluctantly and tardily accepts as integral components of war.

In short, the Israeli Druze had to act. It is arguable that the Israeli Druze breaching the Israel-Syria border, rather than the actual massacre of the Druze in Suweida, finally shook the Israeli government to bomb the Ministry of Defence HQ in Damascus. This action by the IAF must be acknowledged, praised and appreciated; let us be clear about that. But it is far too little, far too late. By then the Syrian military, together with the local Bedouin, have been going house-to-house, Yelwata-style, October 7-style, Kashmir Valley-style, Baghdad-style, Hebron-style, Moplah-style, Diyarbekir-style, Safed-style, Suweida-style—hundreds of Druze had just been murdered. October 7 has been happening over and over and over again for 1400 years. And it just happened again!

Israel’s Druze citizens profoundly appreciate the IDF’s actions to stop the genocide of their kin in Syria, especially given all the extraordinary demands pressing down on the IDF and the government. Their criticism of the Israeli government and the IDF centre on Israelis failing to appreciate what they had undertaken to protect the Druze from: Muslims on jihad. Whereas the Israelis had failed to grasp what the Syrian Druze meant by “annex us”, inevitable given the Jews’ misguided scruples over International Law, the Israeli Druze knew exactly what their brethren had meant by “annexation”. That such an urgent situation had been allowed to develop meant that the Druze could no longer indulge Israeli ignorance. Something had to be done and immediately.

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