Why the Little-Known Story of the Druze Is So Important to the Middle East
Yet their full story is being buried by Western media
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 a great significance here.
You see, the stories we are seeing being covered by news channels such as the BBC and The Guardian are of Israel’s bombing of areas of Syria, with a very specific angle — one that prefers to at best question Israel’s ‘real’ motives, such as this sole article I found from The Guardian covering Israel’s advances in Syria, and at worst paints Israel as a brutal, oppressive, power-hungry, land-thieving state. This BBC article — the only one I could find on the topic of the Druze in conjunction with Israel’s actions in Syria — does just this. This is in line with the current narrative surrounding the plight of the Palestinians, that was also perpetuated during Israel’s offensive in Lebanon to diminish the military capabilities of Hezbollah. And thus the dialogue that continues to dominate the social media conversations echoes…
