Hokey schmokes, Habib. Are we to believe you're trolling the
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I've read previously that you Islamics insist Ynet isn't a trusted source.
Their blind Jew hate combined with mental illness blocks the truth from entering their brain.
Druze in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Military service and public office
Druze citizens are prominent in the
Israel Defense Forces and in
politics. The bond between Jewish and Druze soldiers is commonly known by the term "a covenant of blood" (Hebrew: ××Ø××Ŗ ××××,
brit damim).[6]
A Druze politician,
Majalli Wahabi, served as the acting President of Israel in February 2007. Five Druze lawmakers were elected to serve in the
18th Knesset, a disproportionately large number considering their population.[7]
Reda Mansour a Druze poet, historian and diplomat, explained: "We are the only non-Jewish minority that is drafted into the military, and we have an even higher percentage in the combat units and as officers than the Jewish members themselves. So we are considered a very nationalistic, patriotic community."[8]
In 1973,
Amel Nasser A-Din founded the
Zionist Druze Circle,[9][10] a group whose aim was to encourage the Druze to support the state of Israel fully and unreservedly.[11]
Druze commander of the IDF Herev battalion
In 2007, Nabiah A-Din, mayor of
Kasra Adia, rejected the "multi-cultural" Israeli constitution proposed by the
Israeli Araborganization
Adalah: "The state of Israel is Jewish state as well as a democratic state that espouses equality and elections. We invalidate and reject everything that the Adalah organization is requesting," he said. According to A-din, the fate of Druze and
Circassians in Israel is intertwined with that of the state. "This is a blood pact, and a pact of the living. We are unwilling to support a substantial alteration to the nature of this state, to which we tied our destinies prior to its establishment," he said.[12] As of 2005 there were 7,000 registered members in the Druze Zionist movement.[13] In 2009, the movement held a Druze Zionist youth conference with 1,700 participants.[14]
In a survey conducted in 2008, Ephraim Yaar of
Tel Aviv University found that more than 94% of Druze youth classified themselves as "Druze-Israelis" in the religious and national context.[15]
On 30 June 2011,
Haaretz reported that a growing number of Israeli Druze were joining elite units of the military, leaving the official Druze battalion,
Herev, understaffed. This trend has led to calls for its disbandment.
On May 15, 2015, it was announced that the Druze battalion
Herev would be shut down thereby allowing Druze soldiers to integrate into the rest of the IDF, a wish that was relayed to IDF senior staff by leaders in the Druze community as well as former
Herev battalion commanders. The July, 2015 IDF draft will not see the Druze unit be an option, and by September of the same year the battalion will be disbanded and its soldiers will join other units.[16]
As of 2012, 61 of the senior commissioned officers in the IDF were Druze. There were many Druze soldiers serving in elite units of the IDF such as
Sayeret Matkal. There were three Druze combat pilots serving in the Israeli Air Force.[17]
