MENA Minorities

Miscellaneous Syrian Druze : A Druze Divided: Can Walid Jumblatt Hold the Group Together? by Noam Raydan, Foreign Affairs The Syrian Druze at a Crossroads by Ibrahim al-Assil and Randa Slim, Middle East Institute Ismailis: When minorities become pawns in a power game by Haid N. Haid & Bente Scheller, Qantara.de Maj.-Gen. Muhammad Nassif 1937-2015: Who Was Mohammad Nasif? By Mohammad D., Syria Comment Mohammad Nassif: The Shadow Man of the Syria-Iran Axis   by Mohammad Ataie, Syria Comment

Last week I was cited by a couple of media about the current situation between Israel and the Syrian Druze (in English, French & German): Syrian Druze plight tests Israel’s policy of avoiding involvement in civil war Sean Savage, Jewish News Service “The Druze in Idlib and in the Golan/Hermon-region are in a very precarious situation and such a possibility [of massacres] exists, especially in Idlib. Here the Druze are totally at the mercy of Nusra, even though they have already twice declared their conversion to Islam,” Tobias Lang, an Austria-based political analyst and author of the book “Die Drusen in Libanon und Israel” (“The Druze in Lebanon and Israel”), told  JNS.org . (...)   “With the recent dynamic [of the] the massacre in Idlib, the growing Islamic State activity in eastern Sweida, the pushing of other rebels towards Sweida from the west, and the siege of the Druze town of Hader [in the Golan Heights], the Israeli Druze started to get involved on a...