About 150,000 Druze live in northern Israel. These are loyal and brave Israeli citizens. Many have served in the Israel Defense Forces, and several have lost their lives in the service of the Jewish state. Druze communities also serve as a strategic buffer zone for Israel on the Golan Heights and in Syria.
As a result, Israel went into Syria to defend them. The IDF conducted dozens of airstrikes targeting Syrian government troop convoys, and also struck the Syrian defense ministry headquarters in Damascus and sites near the presidential palace. Under this pressure, a ceasefire was agreed, and Syrian forces withdrew from Suweida.
The attacks on the Druze were barbaric. There were reportedly beheadings and rapes; children were murdered in front of their parents.
The troops publicly humiliated their male victims by shaving off their beards, which are religiously significant to them, in a chilling echo of what the Nazis did to the Jews of Germany.
Yet this slaughter elicited no condemnation from those who, day in and day out, signal their own supposed virtue by falsely accusing Israel of war...
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