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Article: Druze and Jews in Israel -- A Shared Destiny?
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- Middle East Policy
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- October 1, 1998
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Druze and Jews in Israel -- A Shared Destiny? by Zeidan Atashi, Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 1995. xvi & 207 pages, one map & 12 photographic illustrations, notes, bibliography and index.
The Druze are unique among the Arabic-speaking communities of Palestine in that they were never forced or even encouraged by the Israelis to leave after 1948 and since the early 1950s have cooperated with the government, voluntarily submitting as a community to military conscription (of men only). Many hundreds have died in military encounters in the service of the Jewish state, and a large percentage serve as border guards and in the occupied territories. As a ...