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This chapter focuses on the incorporation of certain sections of the Druze communities of Tsfiya and Daliyat al-Karmal into the State of Israel during the final phase of the war. In particular, I shall examine the establishment of a Druze unit in the IDF (whose volunteers were mainly drawn from Tsfiya and Daliya) as well as the benefits that the existence of this unit brought to the two villages. Also covered in this chapter is the battle of Yanuh, in which the Druze unit found themselves fighting against fellow Druze, and its aftermath.
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Cited in Benny Morris, 1948 and After, Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: 1990), p. 187.
Most of the information concerning the sulha is taken from Memet Razil and Avi Blair, Minikrot Tzurim, Sipuro Hamufla Shel Ya’cov Barazani [From the Clefts of the Rocks, the Amazing Story of Ya’cov Barazani] (Tel Aviv: 1979).
Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 (Cambridge: 1987), p. 225.
Morris’s description of events in al-Rama is made in the context of IDF policy towards the Christians, not the Druze. His information derives from an eyewitness account cited by Nafez Nazzal in his The Palestinian Exodus from the Galilee, 1948 (Beirut: 1978), pp. 32–3. I have taken my information on al-Rama from the same source.
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Parsons, L. (2000). The Druze in the New State, July–October 1948. In: The Druze between Palestine and Israel 1947–49. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595989_5
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