What path will the Druze take? After several deadly clashes, will the authorities in Damascus be able to bring this minority back into the national fold, giving substance to their promise of ‘no division, no partition' and preventing the emergence of a ‘Federal Republic of Syria', much discussed on social media? When I met him at his headquarters in Qanawat, in Suwayda governorate, Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri told me he thought Ahmed al-Sharaa's gestures of openness were a façade. ‘Israel i...
