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DRUZE FAMILIES MURDERED. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1@THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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DRUZE FAMILIES MURDERED. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1@THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS
1890 DAMASCUS

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

0:10.0

Thadis McCotter, my colleague and co-host at American Greatness, and we welcome our colleague, Malcolm

0:18.0

Honeline Conference of President's major American Jewish organizations.

0:22.1

The Middle East for ceasefires in place in all directions is very busy and threatening and

0:29.0

murderous. That is, you have a question for Malcolm.

0:33.2

Yes, Malcolm. You have news about the Druze and the slaughter that is being perpetrated against them,

0:38.6

as well as information about a church fire in the West Bank.

0:43.1

Right. So let's first talk about the Drew's situation, which is very personal for me,

0:48.5

because I'm close to many in the Drews community in Israel and in Syria.

0:53.4

And I speak to them regularly, usually in the middle of the night.

0:58.0

And it's such a tragedy is unfolding.

1:02.1

And it is really regrettable that the world is not paying attention to it.

1:06.1

Everybody, if you listen to BBC or NPR or all these places, they devote a quarter of their news to a reportage on Gaza,

1:13.6

but will not mention or hardly mention the situation in the Druze where hundreds, certainly more than 1,500 or 1,500 were killed brutally in ways that are hard to describe on the public media.

1:29.4

But women were stripped and attacked.

1:32.0

The men were thrown off buildings.

1:34.1

People were lined up, including children, and just summarily executed,

1:38.4

both by troops of the, from the, as everybody blames the Bedouins, but the Bedouins are a small part of this.

1:46.9

There are traditional tensions between the Bedouin and the Druze, but this has nothing to do with it.

1:52.4

This is directly linked to the, to the Ashara government, sending in troops and sending in foreign troops with them who act in these brutal ways,

2:02.3

but so were members of the Syrian forces.

2:06.7

These atrocities are reminiscent of October 7th, and Israel has warned for a long time about the radical extremism.

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