The issue:

What’s going on in Syria right now shows that the Druze community wants to be part of Israel. Leaders from Druze villages in the Golan Heights are pushing for their areas to come under Israeli administration, pointing out that they play a stabilizing role in the region. We’re hearing that Druze residents in southern Syria are handing over their weapons to the Israeli army. Analysts say that as the Assad regime weakens, the Druze are looking for more autonomy or even independence, with support from Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Muafak Tarif, the Druze leader in Israel, has spoken to UAE President Mohammad bin Zayed and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu said that the Druze are important for keeping Syria stable. On top of that, local Druze leaders have also expressed support for annexation to Israel, despite the ongoing tensions with groups like Hezbollah.

Insights:

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted the Druze to pursue autonomy and independence.

Recent reports indicate a shift in allegiances, with some Druze residents reportedly joining Hezbollah.

Meetings among Druze leaders reflect a growing consensus for placing their villages under Israeli administration.

Questions raised:

• What are the main reasons the Druze are seeking annexation to Israel?

The Druze are seeking annexation to Israel primarily for security and stability in the region, especially in light of the changing political landscape following the Assad regime’s decline.

• How has the Israeli government responded to the Druze’s requests?

The Israeli government, particularly through Prime Minister Netanyahu, has expressed support for the Druze’s stability role and is open to discussions regarding their requests for administration and autonomy.

• What implications does the Druze’s push for annexation have on regional stability?

The Druze’s push for annexation could lead to shifts in regional alliances and power dynamics, potentially increasing tensions with groups like Hezbollah and affecting the broader geopolitical situation in Syria.

• Are there external factors influencing the Druze’s request for support?

Yes, the Druze’s request for support is influenced by external factors, including the involvement of the United Arab Emirates and the changing power dynamics in Syria following the weakening of the Assad regime.

Opinion:

This move is definitely the second step towards Israel’s end game, which is to create a state of Greater Israel. The first step was the annexation of Gaza.

“Greater Israel” or the “Kingdom of Israel,” which actually means “the promised land of Israel,” is a term used to describe a region that includes areas from the Palestinian Territories the Nile to the Euphrates, from Medina to Lebanon, and territories from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan.

This is something the Zionists have been after for a long time. They’ve gone through different stages to try to achieve it, but it’s always been their endgame target. The Book of Genesis says that God promised the land to Abram’s descendants. It’s a covenant between God and Abram for his descendants. Abram’s name was later changed to Abraham, and the promise was passed through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham’s grandson.

Joel Greenberg mentioned it in his article in The New York Times, where he noted: “At Israel’s founding in 1948, the Labor Zionist leadership, which went on to govern Israel in its first three decades of independence, accepted a pragmatic partition of what had been British Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states. The opposition Revisionist Zionists, who evolved into today’s Likud party, sought Eretz Yisrael Ha-Shlema—Greater Israel, or literally, the Whole Land of Israel (shalem, meaning complete).”

The capture of the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Jordan and Egypt during the “6 Day War” (1967) led to the growth of the non-parliamentary Movement for Greater Israel and the construction of Israeli settlements.

The Movement for Greater Israel, also known as the Land of Israel Movement, was a political organization in Israel during the 1970s that believed in the idea of a larger Israel. The organization was set up in July 1967, a month after Israel captured the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights in the Six-Day War. It asked the Israeli government to keep the captured areas and to settle them with Jewish populations.

It looks like the recent shift from a single geopolitical power to a multi-polar landscape has triggered the final stages of this plan.

In March 2023, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right National Religious Party–Religious Zionism, spoke in Paris from behind a podium featuring a map of “Greater Israel” that included Transjordan.

Let’s see what step 3 of the plan looks like.

Those who warned for decades about Israel’s imperialist plans and were dismissed as “antisemitic criminals” must be vindicated today.