SOME SYRIAN DRUZE REQUEST ANNEXATION INTO ISRAEL - RT

 This artoc;e comes from RT, the Russian channel.  It contains surprising content.  If accurate, it will make the Druzes targets for other factions striving for power after the fall of Assad.  On the other hand, some Druzes already live inside Israel.  Hugh Murray

Syrian village asks to be annexed by Israel – media

An alleged member of the Druze community said it would be the “lesser evil,” fearing future jihadist rule after the fall of Bashar Assad

FILE PHOTO. Druze men © Getty Images / Hanan Isachar

The southern Syrian village of Hader has reportedly requested to be incorporated in the Israeli-occupied part of the Golan Heights, according to the Times of Israel. The outlet cited an unverified video where a member of the Druze community expressed concerns over the future of his people.

Bashar Assad’s government fell last week after opposition forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists, launched a surprise offensive across Syria and took control of its major cities, including the capital Damascus. The erstwhile president has since resigned and sought asylum with his family in Russia.

In a video posted to X on Friday that features captions in English, a Hader resident claiming to be a representative of the Druze people, an esoteric ethnoreligious group, urged a large crowd to consider what their future will be like. The village is located within the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, which IDF troops entered last week.

“If we have to choose, we will choose the lesser evil,” he said. “And even if it’s considered evil to ask to be annexed to the [Israeli] Golan, it’s a much lesser evil than the evil coming our way,” the man added, apparently referring to the HTS, which was formerly known as the Al Nusra front - an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Syria.

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“That evil might take our women, might take our daughters, they might take our houses,” he said, pleading for the Syrian Druze to be freed from the “injustice and oppression” that had been imposed on them in the past, and could be imposed again by Islamist rebel groups.

“We have asked to be annexed to the Golan to preserve our dignity” the man, who claimed to speak on behalf of the Druze community across the surrounding area of Quneitra Governorate, said. “We ask in the name of all the surrounding area to join our people in the Golan, and to live with freedom and dignity like our people are living [in Israel]. 

Around 48% of Syria’s Druze resided in the Suwayda Governorate some 90 kilometers from the border with Israel prior to the civil war, the Times of Israel reported citing a 2010 census. Since then, however, it is believed that many of them have fled the region for safer parts of the country.

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DAVID BROOKS IN ATLANTIC MONTHLY QUESTIONS MERITOCRACY IN UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS, etc.

 I have only read a short summary of the Brooks article in Newser, but was shocked.  Here is my response as I posted it on Newser.  In some ways my response is a short summary of my forthcoming book.  Hugh Murray

What a crock! Merit was abandoned around 1965 when leaders of the EEOC pushed the unproven theory that all large groups are equally adept in all fields. From this absurd assumption, if all groups were not equally represented in all fields, that proved racial discrimination. This theory was the underlying justification for the trendy phrase, system racism. A few years later, Eleanore Holmes Norton decided anything that interfered with minority hiring should be abolished. So, no more info permitted don previous arrests, etc. when applying for jobs or univ. or whatever. And exams where minorities did poorly were condemned as discriminatory, and she fought to ban them, EVEN WHEN THEY WERE THE BEST PREDICTORS OF HOW APPLICANTS MIGHT DO IN UNIV OR CERTAIN JOBS. By Reagan's time, tests were still given, but graded on racial curbs, to boost scores of minorities and demote those of white men. For decades anti-white male propaganda has spewed from the media, ever more govt. agencies, and universities. DEI is the most recent branding of this anti-white racism. DEI is how a Black woman became Pres. of Harvard who had written not a great deal, and some of which was plagiarized. To the liberals, merit is the enemy. This is why we spenc so much on each pupil in public schools, and they often graduate and have trouble reading, doing math, and some now cannot write their own names.

The author of the donnyBrooks in the Atlantic will see his case sink, even by the torpedoes of many who have already responded to it on the Newser site.