I Stand With the Druze – Like Estonia Once Stood With Us
I never thought I would live to see a day when Finland would condemn people defending a peaceful minority. Yet here we are.
While the Druze people are being bombed and slaughtered in Syria, and while Israel steps in to help them, Finnish media sides with the aggressors—again. Also Druze are not only group. Alawites also are under literal genocide but people are too busy to focus on what Chāmās fakes in Gaza to actually see what is happening under their noses.
This is personal for me. And if you understand our own history, it should be personal for every Finnish person.
A Regular Workday – And a Bomb With a Message
After the Soviet-Finnish wars, my father was working a regular earthmoving job, just another ordinary day at work.
He was operating a heavy machine when he suddenly heard a loud, strange metallic thud on the vehicle. He immediately stopped everything and got out to inspect what had hit the underside of the truck.
Buried in the soil was a Soviet aerial bomb that had never exploded.
The area was locked down, the bomb squad arrived, and everyone assumed they were about to defuse a deadly piece of war left behind.
But when they opened it, they were stunned.
There was no explosive inside.
No gunpowder.
Only a carefully hidden note written in Finnish:
“Terveiset heimoveljeltä, seisomme rinnallanne.”
“Greetings from your tribal brother, we stand with you.”
The Estonians had risked their lives to sabotage enemy weapons and secretly help Finland in our hour of need. They also sent everyone they could during the war.
The story what my father found made headlines. All of Finland was moved. We knew who stood with us when we were threatened with destruction.
Now the Druze Face Annihilation – and Israel Stands With Them
Just days ago, in July 2025, the Syrian regime sent tanks and artillery into the Druze region of Suwayda.
They weren’t targeting military bases—they were shelling civilian villages.
Families, elders, and children fled under fire.
The world stayed silent.
But Israel acted.
Not to escalate, not to invade, but to protect the Druze community.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed Syrian tanks and military convoys heading toward Druze towns. These were precision strikes to stop a massacre. This was self-defense, not conquest.
Druze Reservists Sent a Letter to Israel – July 15, 2025
The Association of Druze Discharged Soldiers and Reservists sent a formal letter to the Israeli government, calling for immediate help:
“There is an unending series of massacres, kidnappings, looting, and harm to innocent civilians—women, children, and the elderly alike. We urge you to provide military and humanitarian assistance in defense of our Syrian Druze compatriots.
Hundreds of Druze soldiers are ready to immediately volunteer to fight alongside our brothers to save them, even at the price of taking responsibility for the risks to our lives.”
— July 15, 2025
This letter came not from politicians, but from those who know what it means to stand up for family and they are not alone. Alavites also sent a similar letter to Israel early 2025, mainly March-May 2025:
"In his name, Lord Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad.
We, the Alawite clerics, issue the following statement after our meeting in one of the coastal villages:
After the fall of the Assad regime and the assumption of power in Syria by an extremist Islamic group that adopts killing, kidnapping, displacement, and intimidation as a method and way to rule and dominate, and after the massacres and violations that occurred in the Alawite areas against their people in Tartus, Latakia, Homs, Hamma, and Damascus, and after the crimes of ethnic genocide with the exception of the State of Israel, which spoke the truth and echoed the truth and condemned these criminal acts.
We declare our demand from the government of Israel, represented by its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to provide protection, assistance, aid and support, because the entire world has been silent about our injustice, and we have only heard a voice from the State of Israel condemning the crimes committed by the Damascus government against the Alawites, and for that we thank it.
We say to the Jewish state, we extend our hands to you and we will be your best and most loyal friends, so that you can rid us of this extremist Islamic rule that will be a place for training and preparing groups from which they will launch their fight against you. In the past, you have suffered from the Islamists and known their crimes, and the treacherous terrorists of Islamic terrorism are the best example of the Hamas movement and terrorism as an example of terrorism and terror. And the Hamas movement is establishing a base in Syria that will be a launching point for action against you.
We demand that the IDF move its planes and forces to protect us.
We ask that the Israeli Ministry of Defense move
its warships and warships towards the coast. - We ask that the Israeli Foreign Ministry raise the issue of crimes against the Alawites at the international level.
- We ask from the Israeli media the readiness to shed light on the massacres being committed against us.
You know that the Alawites have never been extremists, terrorists or heretics, but rather moderate, tolerant and believers in human brotherhood. They do not differentiate between Jews, Christians and Muslims.
We are a minority like you in the Middle East, so let us unite against the Islamic tide led by Turkey. First place then help us say goodbye to this extremist Islamic state. We cannot live with these cruel animals who wear Islam as a cloak.
My sons of David, your origin is gold, and this is what time has proven, help us and we, you are honorable brothers. If you reach the Syrian coast, which is mostly Shalawi, you will be welcomed with songs and flowers. May God bless the honorable State of Israel, its great leaders and its free and honorable people.
We would like to thank Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar for his words about the Alawites and the revenge and harm they are subjected to, something no Arab, Islamic, or international foreign minister has ever done".
Druze Civilians Begged for Help Across Social Media
While tanks rolled in, Druze people inside Syria posted desperate pleas on Facebook, Telegram, and X (Twitter):
The people of Syria called for for help globally in the names of all who they believe is Holy including all prophets of Torah and Qur’an and their god.
They begged for rescue from what they described as slaughter.
Many videos showed homes burning, people screaming, and regime forces looting villages
Still, Western media stayed silent, or worse—condemned Israel for responding.
This is Hypocrisy – And Finland Is Now on the Wrong Side.
We praised Estonia for helping us. We cried at the message hidden inside that dud bomb.
But now when Israeli Druze are defending Syrian Druze, alongside Alawites and Israel steps in to stop a second genocide, Finland condemns them.
Why? Because hatred for Israel has blinded the media and most politicians to the truth.
I Choose the Right Side
I stand with the Druze people and Alawites —minorities who want peace, not war.
I stand with Israel defending a civilian community under siege.
I stand with truth over propaganda, and minorities over jihadist agendas.
Finland used to be a country that honored those who stood by us in our darkest hour. We used to side with those who were attacked and who want to live in peace.
Now is the time to stand with the Druze, just as Estonia once stood with us.
I would also like to add that I saw videos last night of what has now been done in Syria by jihadists. The jihadists of the Syrian regime have slaughtered the entire Sweida National Hospital. Druze and Christian patients, doctors, nurses, women, children and everyone who sought shelter inside have been killed on the spot.
This is genocide committed by the Islamist Syrian government led by Muhammad al-Jawlan.
