> the ismailis in salamiya let the rebels in with zero resistance. the druze worked with rebels in the past. it's a different situation 1) the druze were hardly going to start openly fighting the rebels when they moved in, which is what they would have been forced to do if they didn't let them in 2) that was a choice between the assad alawite regime and the rebels, when there was a lot of hope that it would be a secular western democratic rebel group taking control. this is a choice between the hts regime and israel, which has proven it will protect druze.
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