I had the opportunity of visiting the village of Peki'in. This village has 70% of Druze population, 20% of Christians , 9% of muslin and just 1% of Jews. In the village there is one Jew , very old, who takes care of the beautiful and ancient synagogue.
Druze came out of Egypt in 1100 and migrated to the Galilee. Their religion in very similar to Judaism, in fact they also have the commandment but theirs are just 9 because they don't observe Shabbat. Their holy book called Book of Wisdom , is secret and also his meanings are strictly reserved to Druze.
Druze believe in reincarnation and usually happens that young kids talk about their previous life very precisely.
The Druze flag in made up by 5 colors: white, yellow, green, red and blue. Each color represents a very important value of Druze tradition. White is the purity of the mind, green is the nature , blue is the superior entity who controls the world, red is the blood of the Druze poured during the persecutions and yellow is the morality of the people.
The order of the colors of the shape of the flag isn't relevant because the basic thing is the presence of those 5 colors. Muslims don't respect Druze because they think that the way of keeping the Book of Wisdom seems like if that book doesn't exist.
The only nation to have recognized the ethnic group of the Druze is Israel. Druze must take part to the IDF and during the independence war there were relatively more Druze causalities than Jewish. Today there are a few generals and pilots who are Druze because the State of Israel believes in them.
All the deepest and most important comments or explanation are kept as a top secret information.
Druze population is divided in medium religious and very religious people. This small village is the prove of how it can be possible the co-existance of the 3 monotheist religions and demonstrates that peace is possible.
---David Fiorentini
Druzes are honest people.
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