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Great story and informative

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Very informative and, in its way, reassuring.

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After all this time asking for a definitive answer, I still do not understand why mainstream media seems so eager to cast Israel in a bad light? What incentivizes them to hide stories like the Druze and stories like the Kurds and only tell stories that vilify Israel? I have to this day not heard a good answer to that question. And why is it across the mainstream list of news outlets .... CNN, WaPo, CBC, BBC, NY Times and list goes on and on? Is there some kind of back room collusion that is taking place? and for exactly what reason?

As far as the Druze in Syria ..... let a democratic vote be taken in that land and if they want to be annexed by Israel, then why not make it so? If we want to make their plight known to the world, why dont we grant them their wish? Seems like a win win situation to me.

And with the kurds, they have fought on our side for decades, lets not let Turkey get away with trying to kill them. Frankly, we should be kicking Turkey out of NATO.

papa j

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Because antisemitism. Simple as that.

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Lorri, I have been around for a long time and it was only in the last 10 years or so that it became this way. Antisemitism may be a small part of it but I believe there has to be more to it.

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Lorri's short answer is correct: it is antisemitism, plain and simple. Except, of course, antisemitism is not simple. The tropes (blood libel and secret powerful cabal being the most relevant)that lie dormant until the right moment comes in any society wear different faces, so they aren't immediately recognizable.

So it doesn't have to be collusion, just an awakening of the tropes because of implicit bias. In addition, a great deal of money from oil-rich Arab states is being poured into awakening these tropes, particularly in radical left spaces (I want to emphasize the radical here). That money/PR work has worked to shape the new antisemitism--but the seeds have been there since, oh, forever.

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Patricia, I would like to use two NY papers as an example. The two are the NY Times and the NY Post. The NY Times (like the majority of MSM) is very much biased against Israel. The NY Post is not. In fact, most say that the Post is very much Pro Israel in its reporting.

Considering your reply, why have the dormant tropes of Jew Hatred been released in the NY Times but have not been released in the reporting by the NY Post?

In order to tackle this media bias, we need IMHO to do more than say "another case of rampant anti semitism" .... Like the education system, I think there is a ... hate to use the word ....conspiracy and a long term plan put together by a group or groups that needs to be identified.

papa j

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Anti-Judaism (coming into more common use and more accurate, I think) can be found on both right and left in different forms. There is no question that the NYT and similar papers, for well-documented (bad) reasons, are anti-Israel--which is anti-Judaism from the left. I believe I've seen right-wing anti-Jewish material from the NY Post.

I'm not arguing that there are coordinated, deliberate efforts to delegitimize, etc. Israel and that those are implicitly or explicitly anti-Jewish. I'm saying that the reason they have been successful is deeply encoded anti-Judaism. Fighting that has to take into account left and right, education and politics, and the role of the supercessionist religions--Christianity and Islam--in spreading this...stuff.

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A very illuminating article thank you very much from someone in the UK which is at present being taken over by Islamists.

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Fascinating! Even more so for me as a dna test I did for a uni research project some years ago showed a segment of my dna is most common amongst the Druze! For some unfathomable reason I seem inordinately pleased about this 😄

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I wonder how many populations of non-muslims in that region are asking to be annexed by Islamists for protection against Israel. I suspect the number is very, very small.

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Druze trace their lineage to Yitro - Jethro - Moshe’s father in law

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I hadn’t heard of the Druze until 12 children were killed whilst playing football. The fact that many Druze fit snuggly into Israel just doesn’t suit the narrative that Jews are the baddies, so it’s never mentioned. But we know now, and we like them. They sound very cute!

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I absolutely LOVE you, Reuben Salsa. Thank you for your journalistic integrity.

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Lol...thank you Karen, but I'm just the filter for the great writers at JPF.

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Too humble 😌

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Tzlil Berko, Kosher Cockney and Christopher Messina, Reuben Salsa, I think we need to form some sort of a coalition.

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So tolerant, Israel. This article is like windshield wipers clearing the fog and showing clarity.

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Thoroughly enjoyed reading this essay! Kol Hakavod!!

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Great article which explains the Druze and their plight to live freely and peacefully in the region.

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Reuben!

The Druze need a country , a territory, some place where Erdogan cannot murder them!

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A beautiful story that more of the world should be aware of.

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