Yossi Schwartz ISL ( RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 28.08.2025
Sheikh Hikmat al-Hajari, one of the leaders of the Druze community in Syria and a follower of Israel, called on the international community to help the Druze establish “a separate Druze state from Syria to protect the members of the community.”
In a recorded meeting yesterday with members of a delegation from the “People of Honor” movement, one of the armed factions in Sweida, he said: “We appeal to all the honorable people of the world, to the free countries and peoples, to stand by us in declaring a separate province that will protect our children forever and forever What we have recently experienced, a barbaric attack, exposes the intensity of the savagery in which we live.”
Al-Hajari stressed the need to “unite efforts and fronts,” and welcomed the establishment of the National Guard, which includes the armed Sweida factions and the district’s Supreme Legal Committee. “We congratulate ourselves on finding this arrangement, which parallels state institutions, led by the army, which is now represented by the National Guard, alongside the Supreme Judicial Committee,” he said. “We opened our path under a new title, especially after the disaster we went through, an existential disaster. who is destined to destroy us in the eyes of the entire world.” A speech that could have been written in Israel.
Senior Israeli security sources say that the announcement last Saturday by several local Druze factions in Sweida that they had joined forces under the name of the National Guard opens the door to further complications in the local Syrian arena, against the backdrop of growing trends in the pursuit of countries in divisions. The move is expected to further strengthen the position of al-Hajri, who has recently been leading the confrontation with the regime of Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara. That will make it even more difficult to control the security situation in southern Syria.
Al-Hajari is now considered the central figure in the face of al-Shara’s attempts to enter Sweida and disarm it, even before the fierce battles last month. He enjoys the support of the Druze in Syria and Israel, as well as Israeli support, which was clearly expressed in the Israeli air force strikes against the Syrian regime forces that tried to enter Suwayda in mid-July. This support gives Al-Hajari leeway to raise the bar of his demands.
In order to understand what is happening in Syria, we must understand the theory and strategy of the permanent revolution. To be precise, one key aspect. In countries that have not undergone a democratic revolution, and no country in the Middle East has undergone such a revolution, this revolution cannot stop at the democratic stage, but instead continues to a socialist revolution headed by the working class under revolutionary leadership.
The tasks of the democratic revolution in Syria are to overthrow the bloody regime of Assad, which imperialist Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah support. In addition, the role of the democratic revolution is to expel imperialist control, establish equality before the law, promote national unity, initiate an agrarian revolution, and foster industrialization.
In Syria, only the political aspect – the overthrow of Assad’s bloody regime – was carried out. The remaining functions of the democratic revolution were still missing. Therefore, the Syrian regime is weak and allows Israel’s intervention and its aspiration for the Greater Land of Israel, which includes parts of Syria. The way for the Zionists to realize this aspiration is to divide Syria into small and weak states.