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>Thoughts on the Druze? They primarily reside in Lebanon, the Golan Heights, and Israel. They are a pro-Zionist Arab group and many serve in the IDF.
The ones in Israel are pro-Israel. I find their politics more interesting than the religion (just a personal preference, not knocking it). But it's said that Druze tend to go where the power is in whatever area they're in. So in Israel, they go with the Jews, while the ones in Syria went with Assad, although when the civil war started, they worked out a deal to have an autonomous region in the south with their own police and other assorted men-with-guns and Assad left them alone.

In Lebanon, they're led by Walid Jumblatt who comes from a long line of Druze leaders (going back centuries?). And he allied with the PLO during the Lebanese Civil War and fought the Christians, and it's said you can detect shifts in the balance of power in Lebanon by watching how Jumblatt makes moves. So, like, during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he wasn't actually pro-U.S. but pivoted a bit against Syria, even though he had once been allies with Syria. I dunno it gets complicated.

He also has a giant painting of Zhukov in his compound in Mokhtara.