Syrian Druse threatened by ISIS. Jordan threatened by ISIS. Israel threatened by Isis?Israel should empower her potential allies thereby saving their lives and by extension save Israelis from being threatened!

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In the war against ISIS....

I can't help but think how much worse it would be for Jews today, without a Jewish Sovereign State and without a Jewish army etc. 

 Jews facing ISIS today would feel like they did in Nazi Germany Chas Veshalom....helpless...

The sheer terror of being at the mercy of horrific evil without the means of defending and protecting oneself, ones family, ones property and ones land... We've been there...

Our fate would be no different than the unprotected Druze in villages in Syria or the Yezidis in Iraq,  G-d forbid. 

BH, we feel much more secure. We know that we can't rely on our might and strength alone but if G-d is on our side then we have a vessel (kli) for Him to operate.

We are still surrounded by our enemies... 

We should not take the friendship of allies of Israel for granted and we must share a sense of responsibility for them as well. 

June 19, 2015 Op-Ed: The Druze and the Middle East's Minority Pact 
Israel must, simply must, save the Syrian Druze. by Dr. Mordechai Kedar
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17095#.VYO-3vlViko

June 18, 2015 Op-Ed: Not to Act Against Evil is to Act

Evil triumphs when good people do not stand against it. And we may be on the way to seeing a repeat of the good Europeans who disagree with Hitler - in their living rooms. by Dr. Phyllis Chesler
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17094#.VYPCNPlViko

Evil triumphs when good people do not stand against it. Like Europeans and Americans in the Nazi era—privately disagreeing with Hitler’s policies did not save eleven million people. One must resist—or the Devil wins. Covering up Stalin’s crimes—40 to 50 million died—is not resisting the Devil.
According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “SILENCE in the face of evil is itself evil, God will not hold us guiltless, NOT to speak is to speak, NOT to act is to act.”

According to Caroline Glick,  Israel betrayed  Palestinians who had normal relations with Israel as well as betrayed Palestinians who helped Israel fight terrorists once Arafat moved into Judea and Samaria and Gaza in  1994.  After the expulsion of Gush Katif  in 2005,  Arabs who befriended Israel and worked with Israel had to flee Gaza for their safety. Caroline also mentions the betrayal by Israel of the Lebanese Christians in its "helter-skelter withdrawal from the security zone in south Lebanon on May 31, 2000" .

 She adds that Israel can now rectify these mistakes of the past,  by helping the Druze in Syria...  Please read on..

June 18, 2015 Opinion: Caroline Glick column One JPOST

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-one-Israels-great-opportunity-406531.  Caroline warns us not to repeat past mistakes.  She writes:

Israel has managed to destroy its regional reputation.

With our own hands, we have twice shown our neighbors they have little reason to tie their fates to ours. We are unreliable.

In 1994, Israel betrayed the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza who had helped us fight against PLO terrorists for decades. Open season on our Palestinian allies officially began in July 1994 with the entrance of thousands of PLO terrorists – led by Yasser Arafat – into Gaza and Jericho. Arafat's henchmen did not limit their murderous wrath to the Palestinians who saved countless Israeli lives by working with the Shin Bet and the IDF. They killed Palestinians who sold their lands to Jewish buyers. Palestinians who simply enjoyed normal work relations with Israelis found themselves targeted as suspected "collaborators."

Six years after Israel betrayed its Palestinian allies, we abandoned our allies in south Lebanon.

After 18 years of fighting shoulder to shoulder with the IDF, Israel left the soldiers and commanders of the South Lebanese Army and their families to face Hezbollah alone.

In its helter-skelter withdrawal from the security zone in south Lebanon on May 31, 2000, Israel left most of the SLA soldiers and their families behind. Those who managed to cross the border to Israel were treated shamefully by the Israeli bureaucracy.

We caught a glimpse of the suffering we caused those who remained behind during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. As IDF soldiers returned to Lebanon they were beset by the families of SLA soldiers who seized on their return to make a run for the border. Men, women and children sprinted across fields to the newly returned IDF units with whatever they could carry.

When we returned to Lebanon that summer, no Lebanese militia offered to fight at our side.

And indeed, after we betrayed our allies, it was hard to imagine a situation where anyone would again agree to fight alongside us. And yet, thanks to the demise of the Syrian and Iraqi states, Israel has a chance to undo the damage. We can rebuild our credibility with our neighbors by helping the Druse in Syria.

Twice in the past 90 years, the Syrian Druse had the potential for independent action. In 1921, when the French established their mandatory rule in present-day Syria and Lebanon, they divided the territory into six "independent," or autonomously ruled, "states."

The Druse received a state of their own centered in Jebl Druse – the Druse Mountain. The area under their control stretched across the Syrian side of the tri-border area with Israel and Jordan. The Druse state existed until 1936, when the French reorganized the mandate and set up a central government in Damascus.

The possibility of establishing a Druse state arose again, fleetingly, in 1967. During the Six Day War, then-labor minister Yigal Allon put together a plan to establish a Druse state, again centered on Druse Mountain. He tried but failed to convince then-defense minister Moshe Dayan to send the IDF units that had just taken over the Golan Heights south to Druse Mountain rather than eastward toward Damascus.

In 2007 the transcripts of a series of taped memoirs Allon recorded a year before his death in 1980 were made public. Of his plans regarding the Druse, Allon explained, "I had visited Sweida [the capital of Druse Mountain] several times and I dreamed a dream of a Druse Republic that would stretch across southern Syria...that would be in military alliance with Israel. I had great expectations from the Druse in Israel, that were already serving in the IDF. I believed they could serve as a bridge between us and the other Druse."

Today Allon has a strategic heir in the government of Israel – and he is a Druse.

Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara is probably the most powerful Druse in the world today. The Druse of Syria and Lebanon take him seriously. We should too...

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Today, the plight of the Druse grows more dire from day to day. With the regime on the verge of collapse, the government ordered the units that had been securing the Druse villages along the border with Israel on the northern Golan to return to Damascus. Some 30,000 Druse centered around the village of Hader are surrounded by rebel forces.

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As for the nearly three-quarters of a million Druse at Druse Mountain, according to Kara, they wish to defend and govern themselves in an autonomous region for the foreseeable future.

But to fend for themselves, they need weapons.

Without arms, with the regime's collapse seemingly imminent, it is possible that the Druse will be unable to survive. It is also possible that if Israel doesn't provide them with weapons, someone else – perhaps Hezbollah – will arm them and so buy their loyalty.

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Israel must empower  those who would be Israel's potential allies to keep Isis away! 

Obviously, we don't want to empower Hezbollah to fight ISIS.  

Jordan is being threatened by Isis as well!

FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2015

Jordan Fears Imminent ISIS Invasion - Yaakov Levi

This is how Jordan is dealing with the threat.

Jordan is preparing for invasions by Islamic terror groups by arming Bedouins in Syria and Iraq to prevent incursions, reports say. http://israelagainstterror.blogspot.com/2015/06/jordan-fears-imminent-isis-invasion.html

During a tour of the border areas on June 15, Abdllah stated that it was Jordan's obligation "to assist Arab tribes in Iraq and Syria," hinting that he would rely on the tribes as a first line of defense against incursions by ISIS and Al-Nusra.
The tribes living on both sides of the border have close ties, and Abdullah believes that they would aggressively defend their areas from invasion by the Islamist groups, reports said.
Abdullah's declaration set off rumors in the Arab media that Jordan was preparing to seize border areas on Iraq and Syria in order to fend off invaders. That plan was denied by Ahmad Almoumani, an advisor to Abdullah. 
"Jordan has no plans to expand at the expense of neighboring countries, who we respect and value. We hope to preserve our own independence, and our borders," he stressed. 

The ones ISIS consider to be their worst infidels are the ones who should be empowered since they have the greatest reason to fight because of the horrors that await them G-d forbid.  Especially if they have a proven record of being peaceful, non aggressive and a potential ally for Israel.  

Both the Yezidis and the Druse are tight peaceful religious communities who don't intermarry who are ISIS 's worst "Infidels".  

Syrian Druse like the Yezidi's have their many villages surrounded by ISIS without means to protect themselves.  Israeli Druse are very worried for their relatives in Syria. https://youtu.be/yjpy_Fe6X1k  Listen to Israeli Druze Ms. Angham describe the danger of a peaceful Druze village in Syria under threat by Isis. She appears on Tom Trento on approx 34:00. 

Tom Trento: What's going on in Syria in the Druze Community that you are aware of?

Angham:  She says on 37:58 "I am aware that they are in danger. Real danger.  They are fighting against terrorists. They are in a small village like really small village, their number is small and they are outnumbered, They are in grave threat

(Just look at what happened to the Yezidis and they have good reason to fear for their lives for their husbands and for their women and children.  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2015/06/yezidis-isis-genocide-let-us-help-them.html! )

Tom Trento: How many Druze are we talking about? What is the size of the population?

She answers that she doesn't know about  the numbers there but there are many people in small villages. 

(Caroline Glick says there are 3/4 of a Million Druze on Druze Mountain.)

There are over 1.7 million Syrian Refugees flocking to Turkey http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/country.php?id=224 .  Israel obviously can not help them all.  

Why should Israel or America or any country absorb all these refugees? 

Allow them self governance and empower them to defend their own Land.

Let us stand up for evil not only for our own people but for those whom we know are peaceful and are facing genocide. We have been there and we know what it's like. Especially when we owe them and it's a matter of Hakarat Hatov.

It makes sense for Israel to empower their potential allies and those who will be a first line of defense for Israel.  

We can take Jordan's example...
Let Israel act to save many innocent lives, G-d willing,  and it will act to save itself and keep ISIS far from Israel's border!  

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

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