🇸🇾🇮🇱 In an interview with The New York Times, Julani pledged to uphold the 1974 agreement with Israel and claimed the Assad regime’s fall has neutralized Hezbollah and Iranian-backed threats. He added that Israel need not occupy Syrian lands for defense.
While Julani courts global powers, his stance on Israel raises eyebrows—particularly as Israel continues daily attacks and violates ceasefire lines.
🇸🇾🇮🇱 In an interview with The New York Times, Julani pledged to uphold the 1974 agreement with Israel and claimed the Assad regime’s fall has neutralized Hezbollah and Iranian-backed threats. He added that Israel need not occupy Syrian lands for defense.
While Julani courts global powers, his stance on Israel raises eyebrows—particularly as Israel continues daily attacks and violates ceasefire lines.
Since its launch in 2013, Telegram has grown from a simple messaging app to a broadcast network. Its user base isn’t as vast as WhatsApp’s, and its broadcast platform is a fraction the size of Twitter, but it’s nonetheless showing its use. While Telegram has been embroiled in controversy for much of its life, it has become a vital source of communication during the invasion of Ukraine. But, if all of this is new to you, let us explain, dear friends, what on Earth a Telegram is meant to be, and why you should, or should not, need to care. Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. The news also helped traders look past another report showing decades-high inflation and shake off some of the volatility from recent sessions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' February Consumer Price Index (CPI) this week showed another surge in prices even before Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine. The headline CPI — soaring 7.9% over last year — underscored the sticky inflationary pressures reverberating across the U.S. economy, with everything from groceries to rents and airline fares getting more expensive for everyday consumers. Messages are not fully encrypted by default. That means the company could, in theory, access the content of the messages, or be forced to hand over the data at the request of a government.
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