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Why Is Israel Invested in the Fate of Syria’s Druze?

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Jonathan Hessen
Former Nonresident Senior Fellow
Jonathan Hessen
An Israeli soldier attaches a Druze flag to the antenna of a Humvee along a barbed-wire fence in the Golan Heights near the Druze village of Majdal Shams on July 19, 2025. (Jalaa Marey via Getty Images)
An Israeli soldier attaches a Druze flag to the antenna of a Humvee along a barbed-wire fence in the Golan Heights near the Druze village of Majdal Shams on July 19, 2025. (Jalaa Marey via Getty Images)

Jonathan Hessen appears on FDD Morning Brief to discuss Israel’s relations with Syrian Druze, Iran’s uranium enrichment, Egypt’s military presence along the border with Gaza, and Unted States Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrac and Deputy Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus’s trip to Israel.

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