Huh, what a coincidence -- I was just up there in the Golan and, being curious, got into a conversation with a cafe owner in Magdal Shams. According to him, the Druze in the Golan are not particularly loyal or disloyal to either Israel OR Syria. They are more about being Druze than about this nationality or that. What bothers them about the stand-off between Syria and Israel is a more human and immediate concern, namely that families are split. Beyond that -- or such was the impression I got -- they don't want to know from national allegiances. Okay, just one man's voice, although he claimed to be describing what most people in the town felt. He even showed me his "Travel Document" -- not a passport but a "travel document", a substitute for a passport -- that showed his nationality as "undefined". I asked him if it didn't anger him against Israel that, although he lived on territory that Israel considers to be its own (Israel having annexed the Golan), Israel won't give him a passport. He said no, not really, he doesn't care, he doesn't feel any need to be an Israeli national nor does he feel any need to be a Syrian national. Anyway, again, wow, what a coincidence. I go to the Golan for the first time in my life (having been to Israel quite a few times), get curious about the Druze and the whole border situation up there, come back to my nice safe (?) home in Europe, go to the Face, and what do I see? An article about the Druze! Cool blog!