“Trust between Israel’s Druze community and the Jewish people has become a model for all Middle Eastern minorities!”
– Sheikh Younes Amasha at the Minorities Conference in Tel Aviv: “Without Israel’s intervention, the Syrian massacres would have been far worse!”
In an emotional speech at the “Future of Minorities in the Middle East” conference in Tel Aviv, organized by Lebanese-born Israeli scholar Dr. Edy Cohen, Sheikh Younes Amasha—head of Israel’s Forum of Religious Leaders—presented a vision of interfaith brotherhood against the backdrop of the brutal persecution of minorities in Syria.
Opening with the words “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate,” he said: “God created humanity as one family, transcending color and opinion, united through love and mercy. That is the essence of all religions—to call for fraternity, respect, and building bridges, not walls.”
