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The Druzes in the Jewish State: A Brief History

 

Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. This text documents the political, social and economic factors that ensured the "success" of the Zionist policies of the new state, but concludes that the Druzes of Israel still have a strong identity.

From the Publisher's Website:
Following the war of 1948 Palestine's Druzes became part of the state of Israel. Overwhelmingly rural, they sought to safeguard their community's age-old ethnic independence by holding on to their traditional ethno-religious particularism. Ethnicity and ethnic issues, however, were ready tools for the Zionists in the pursuit of their policy aims vis-à-vis the state's Arab population. Central among these was the cooptation of part of the Druze elite in an obvious effort to alienate the Druzes from the other Arabs - creating 'good' Arabs and 'bad' Arabs served the Jewish state as a foil for its ongoing policy of dispossession and control.
The author painstakingly documents the political, social and economic factors that ensured the 'success' of these Zionist policies, but concludes that the fissured identity of Israel's Druzes today bespeaks a feeling of musiba, tragedy, within the community itself.



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