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AlArabiya English
  • 7/18/2025
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00:00The Druze don't all speak with one voice, do they?
00:02And we've heard, for example, the rejection of the ceasefire.
00:05That came from one Druze community leader by the name of Hekmat al-Hijiri.
00:11He rejected it.
00:12But I'm just wondering, who is the one legitimate voice,
00:17or is there a legitimate voice that speaks for all the Druze,
00:21or at least a majority of the Druze people?
00:24Actually, there is a very powerful intellectual and civil society movement among the Druzes.
00:33And those people were fighting peacefully this previous regime.
00:39And now they have a real important say in what's going on.
00:44And they were those who really opened a dialogue with the Syrian regime,
00:50trying to overcome the, even to overcome the many obstacles that had been raised by the negotiators.
01:01So at the end of the day, the massacres that happened,
01:05there had been about 10 small and really bigger massacres.
01:11All massacres are equal at the end of the day.
01:13But yes, there had been about 10 massacres.
01:16And those acts practically united the Druzes together.
01:23And they are now willing to go toward a ceasefire.
01:28But still, there are some suspicious people who are seeing the presence of the armament,
01:36armed forces loyal to the Syrian regime, not necessarily regular forces,
01:42still in the area.
01:44So, yes, the situation is very precarious.
01:48And I think the position now is still, we can understand it in terms of,
01:54you know, a synchronized position among the Druzes.
01:59Some of them will accept.
02:01The others will be suspicious just to keep their options open,
02:06rather than a real divide.
02:08Because at the end of the day, facing those dangers,
02:13practically, their vision became much more than before.
02:19They united much more than before.
02:22That's why I think now what we are witnessing is that the Druzes,
02:27who are a kind of a religious entity that could be affiliated to Islam,
02:33but practically, they have their origins in many messages sent by their shares
02:40from the Hindu culture, the Buddhist culture, and even the Greek culture.
02:46So, it's a kind of a, maybe, maybe closer to the Buddhism rather than anything else.
02:55Still, they are considered to be Muslims and monotheists.
03:01At the end of the day, this is, this could be a detail in this, in this situation.

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