Hmmm....
Druze MK Ayoub Kara (Likud) has warned that Israel will defend Syria's Druze community if it is attacked by Bashar al-Assad. Deputy Galilee and Negev Development Minister Ayoub Kara said Sunday that should Assad attack the Druse population in Syria, Israel would not sit with its “hands folded.”Defending the Syrian Druze would probably not be a bad move for Israel.
Kara, a Likud lawmaker who is Druse, said in a statement he is concerned Assad could “attack the Druse in Aleppo as was done in the past. He needs to know that in that case we will not sit with our hands folded.”
Kara’s comments came on the same day that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked his ministers at the weekly cabinet meeting not to speak publicly about the situation in Syria. If they must do so, he said, they should first coordinate their message with the Prime Minister’s Office or Defense Ministry.
One government official said it was clear that Kara was “expressing his own opinion, and not that of the government.”
Kara said he was already hearing support for the Syrian opposition among Golan Druse who “for years were afraid to express opposition to the Assad regime.”
The Druze on the Golan Heights are in limbo between Israel and Syria; even though they would rather stay under Israeli rule, they have to continue to declare their loyalty to Syria's Bashar al-Assad, because they cannot rely on Israel not to return them to Syria, and therefore they have to live in fear of one day falling under Assad's rule.Hmmm....
Labels: Ayoub Kara, Bashar al-Assad, Druze, Syrian regime change
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:22 PM
3 Comments:
As far as everything I have ever read or seen for decades, the Druze on the Golan are most sincere in their hostility toward Israel and their adoration for everything Syrian.
Shy Guy,
You can hardly blame them. I'd hate Israel too if I knew it was going to give back the Golan Heights one day.
If Israel meant it, their attitude would be different. The Jews have a way of selling out their friends that hardly inspires any one to place confidence in them.
Just ask the Arabs of Ghajjar who want to remain Israeli citizens and Jerusalem's response is to cut a deal with the UN behind their backs to turn them over to the tender mercies of Hezbollah.
The Golan Druze fear the same thing happening to them one day so they keep their options open.
No, Norman. The Golan Druze hate goes back to immediately after the 6 Day War and continued even after Israel's government declared the Golan to be an integral, sovereign territory of teh State of Israel.
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