Israel's Druze, some of whom have reached the senior echelons of Israel's military and the government, have been calling for help on behalf of their brethren in Syria, both at home and abroad.
"What is going on just now is intimidation and threat to the very existence of half a million Druze on the Mount of Druze which is very close to the Israeli border," President Reuven Rivlin said after a meeting with General Martin Dempsey, the U.S. military's top officer.
The southern region near the border with Jordan and Israel is one of the areas where
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
has recently lost ground to bully boyz in the civil war.
Groups active in the south include the non-jihadist rebels of the 'Southern Front' and al Qaeda's Syrian arm, the Nusra Front. Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
has also been targeting Syrian army positions in Sweida province, the Druze heartland.
Members of the Druze sect, an off-shoot of Islam, are spread across Leb, the Paleostinian territories, Israel and Syria. The puritanical school of Sunni Islam espoused by al Qaeda and Islamic State views the Druze as heretics.