Foinikas
Elite Member
Now this Druze thing,from what I remember,they were allies of the Israelis in South Lebanon back in the '90s and early 2000s. I remember from watching videos back then and reading something about it.
This whole thing in Syria baffled me,because I thought Druze were more ideologically united as a community. At first I thought they were with the government(during the war),
then they were against the government. Now some are pro-Israeli(probably because they get protection)and some are pro-government.
One thing I always found weird,was their religion. Back in the mid-2000s I met a Syrian from Jabal ad-Duruz,when I was studying. He very briefly tried to explain to me their religion. Then a Syrian friend of mine from Halab,told me that they don't even know what they believe themselves,they're not told until a certain age or some other pre-conditions.
And when much later I read a bit about them...and again recently on wikipedia...I found it so weird and heretic.
How they are so close to the Jews and occasionally the Muslims,I can't understand. They're neither.
This whole thing in Syria baffled me,because I thought Druze were more ideologically united as a community. At first I thought they were with the government(during the war),
then they were against the government. Now some are pro-Israeli(probably because they get protection)and some are pro-government.
One thing I always found weird,was their religion. Back in the mid-2000s I met a Syrian from Jabal ad-Duruz,when I was studying. He very briefly tried to explain to me their religion. Then a Syrian friend of mine from Halab,told me that they don't even know what they believe themselves,they're not told until a certain age or some other pre-conditions.
And when much later I read a bit about them...and again recently on wikipedia...I found it so weird and heretic.
How they are so close to the Jews and occasionally the Muslims,I can't understand. They're neither.
