While talk of this project seems to be derived from the imagination of “conspiracy theorists”, it is far from fiction and closer to accomplishment than ever before. In last week's article on the bloody clashes in the Syrian province of Suwayda, I wrote that Israel “certainly hopes for an escalation of violence in order to take advantage of it to strengthen the influence of the minority among the Syrian Druze that aspires to establish a Druze emirate under Israeli protection” (“Syria and (…)