The history of military relations between Druses and Jews during the Israeli-Arab War of 1948-49 was traced. Jewish-Druse relations have their roots in the series of riots which shook Palestine in 1929 and consolidated with the outbreak of the Palestinian rebellion of 1936-39. Jewish leaders actively solicited Druse cooperation, knowing that it would benefit the Jewish cause in the event of a conflict with Arabs. The alliance between both groups reached its summit with the creation of the IDF minorities unit in 1948.
The relations between the Palestinian Druze and the Yishuv (the Jewish ...
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COPYRIGHT 1995 Frank Cass & Company Ltd.
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