🛡️ The Druze venerate many Jewish prophets, especially Seth, Job, Joseph, David, Elijah, Ezekiel, Joshua, and highlight Jethro as the Universal Mind.
🛡️ The Torah is a holy book to the Druze. The Jews are seen as the faithful carriers of Moses's creed.
🛡️ The six pointed star is very important to the Druze as well, however they've gotten it from pre-Judaic sources, such as Alchemy and Hermetica. And is often inscribed by a circle and meant to symbolize the union of opposites and the separation of pairs. And not merely Solomon.
🛡️ Druze shrines in Carmel and Galilee echo the ancient Jewish shrine tradition, i.e. natural stone mound. Some are architecturally Jewish tombs, with descending staircases into caves.
🛡️ A Sheikh's striped cloak and the multicolored flag are said to be from the cloak of Joseph.
🛡️ Esoteric Judaism, or Kabballah, is most similar to Druze esotericism. Especially in its Neoplatonism, Gematria, Belief in Reincarnation(gilgul),
🛡️The Hasidic sect also stresses on Ascetism. Their highest soul Yechidah is akin to Tawheed. Also Batin Al Batin, their Chassidut.
🛡️ Druze and Jews have lived relatively harmoniously with circumstantial conflicts like the Safed Rebellion being exceptions.
🛡️ Jews in Druze areas were among the nobles in Fakhreddin's entourage. Their Synagogues thrived in Bhamdoun, Aleyh without persecution.
🛡️ Jewish communities in Deir al Qamar and Barouk were also rich land owners.
🛡️ The "blood bond" between Jews and Druze of Israel is one of the strongest the Druze have done with any another sect. Has been strong for 70 years. Agreed to regardless if one is Zionist or not.
🛡️ Druze have no occupied territory in Israel, or any encroached on Holy Land or Site.
Therefore enmity to the Jews is not justified except on Islamist grounds or leftist brainwashing.
Israeli Druze are much better off socially and economically than their peers in Arab countries
Coat of Joseph*
🛡 The Druze ultimately derive their idea of the Messiah from the Jews and also the Messianic Era. Psalm 37's "The meek will inherit the Earth".
Therefore they've avoided belief in Heaven and Hell, and taken a reward/punishment in this realm approach, similar to Jews.
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🛡️ Since the founding of Druzism and its spread in the Levant, Druze and Christians have lived relatively amicably for nearly a thousand years.
🛡️ With 1840, 1860, 1983 armed conflicts always being brought up as the exceptions to this rule
🛡️ These as mentioned are exceptions, of politically and feudally fueled wars. The Druze won the conflicts militarily but lost politically. The years of conflict if summed are but a drop in a thousand years of coexistence.
🛡️ The coexistence which had reached it's golden peak -
-under the great Fakhreddin. Where it had turned into a tying of fate, a symbiosis.
🛡️Christians were considered nobles and fought as army officials to protect a shared dream with the Druze of prosperity, away from Ottoman persecution. Manifested in the capital Deir Al Qamar.
🛡️ The Tanukhids were pagan Northern Arab tribes who converted to Nicene Christianity. They ruled an autonomous zone from Al Sham to Aleppo.
🛡️ They fought fiercely against the Islamic Expansion with the Romans. Being the latter's main Arab ally
🛡️ Arianism in the Roman Clergy lead them to oppose/replace any Arab Bishops. Which enraged the Tanukhids and led to their famous revolt against the Romans.
🛡️ Queen Mavia of the Tanukhs lead the revolt and heralded victory. ٍShe rode up to Pheonicia and Egypt and crushed legions
🛡️While Christian sources describe her as devout Christian she might as well have been still Pagan at that point, but still revolted against discrimination of the Christians in her people. Which is remarkable leadership for a woman in her times. Second to Zenobia in importance.