From his home in Beit Jann in the hills of the Upper Galilee, former Deputy Foreign Minister Majallie Whbee, an Israeli Druze, is keeping close tabs on the fighting taking place in the Druze villages of Syria. He's worried. Like so many members of Israel’s Druze community, he has relatives across the border there, and they are facing real danger. According to all reports, the Jabal al-Druze region in general and the town of Suwayda in particular are surrounded by fighters from the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra.
As if that was not enough, it seems that within Israel itself, things are starting to spiral out of control. An ambulance carrying wounded Syrian rebels to Israeli hospitals came under attack by Druze residents of the Golan Heights on June 22. The incident ended with the death of one of the wounded Syrians. The reason for the lynching was the rage that local Druze feel about the humanitarian aid that Israel is providing to wounded Jabhat al-Nusra fighters, who are attacking their brothers in Syria.
