Israel/Palestine thread
12-12-2024
, 10:30 PM
12-12-2024
, 10:52 PM
12-12-2024
, 11:11 PM
12-12-2024
, 11:15 PM
Quote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdal_Shams
your claims seem dubious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdal_Shams
your claims seem dubious.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/d...are-rcna164013
Quote:
There are about 150,000 members of the Druze community in Israel, according to the latest figures from the country's Central Bureau of Statistics.
Around 25,000 live in the Golan Heights — a rocky plateau overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west — which was seized by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967 before it was formally annexed in 1981. Israel subsequently offered them citizenship.
Syria has for decades demanded the return of the area, which sits around 40 miles southwest of the country’s capital, Damascus, and is still seen as occupied territory under international law and United Nations Security Council resolutions.
After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, a growing number of Druze in the Golan Heights have sought Israeli citizenship and roughly 25% of the community now hold it, according to Rami Zeedan, an associate professor of Israel studies at the University of Kansas, who is Druze himself.
Zeedan, who is also editor of the Druze Studies Journal, said that some are “becoming more connected to Israeli society,” while others remain firmly rooted in their identities as Syrians.Unlike members of Israel's Arab community, most of whom are Muslim or Christian, Israeli Druze are not exempt from military conscription and a large number serve with the Israel Defense Forces. Druze who do not hold Israeli citizenship are not subject to mandatory service.
At least 10 Druze officers and soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, according Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, which reported that eight died in combat in Gaza and two others were killed in the north of the country, where cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah have occurred almost daily since the war in the Gaza Strip began in October.
Around 25,000 live in the Golan Heights — a rocky plateau overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west — which was seized by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967 before it was formally annexed in 1981. Israel subsequently offered them citizenship.
Syria has for decades demanded the return of the area, which sits around 40 miles southwest of the country’s capital, Damascus, and is still seen as occupied territory under international law and United Nations Security Council resolutions.
After the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, a growing number of Druze in the Golan Heights have sought Israeli citizenship and roughly 25% of the community now hold it, according to Rami Zeedan, an associate professor of Israel studies at the University of Kansas, who is Druze himself.
Zeedan, who is also editor of the Druze Studies Journal, said that some are “becoming more connected to Israeli society,” while others remain firmly rooted in their identities as Syrians.Unlike members of Israel's Arab community, most of whom are Muslim or Christian, Israeli Druze are not exempt from military conscription and a large number serve with the Israel Defense Forces. Druze who do not hold Israeli citizenship are not subject to mandatory service.
At least 10 Druze officers and soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, according Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, which reported that eight died in combat in Gaza and two others were killed in the north of the country, where cross-border attacks between Israel and Hezbollah have occurred almost daily since the war in the Gaza Strip began in October.
12-12-2024
, 11:18 PM
12-12-2024
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12-12-2024
, 11:55 PM
Listen man, you go posting Hamas propaganda on social media from a literal Hamas command center what do you expect to happen?
12-13-2024
, 12:08 AM
Maybe they can try giving up the hostages?
12-13-2024
, 07:48 AM
12-13-2024
, 10:04 AM
12-13-2024
, 10:13 AM
12-13-2024
, 10:28 AM
Isreal LOVES killing doctors. Maybe even more than they enjoy killing children! Every day, some new doctor, working under the worst conditions possible in a desperate attempt to save lives, showing great bravery and compassion... gets ****ing domed by some IDF pig. It's almost enough to drive one insane.
12-13-2024
, 11:41 AM
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