Recent Protests Show That Golani Druze Are Feeling More Israeli
No longer looking to Syria.
September 6, 2023
No longer looking to Syria.
Since June, Druze residents of the Golan Heights have staged mass public demonstrations against the planned construction of wind turbines in the area. They were joined by their coreligionists elsewhere in Israel, who have for the most part followed a separate political trajectory. Yusri Hazran explains the significance of this and related developments:
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