🇸🇾🇮🇱 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.
Such instructions could actually endanger people — citizens receive air strike warnings via smartphone alerts. It is unclear who runs the account, although Russia's official Ministry of Foreign Affairs Twitter account promoted the Telegram channel on Saturday and claimed it was operated by "a group of experts & journalists." "There is a significant risk of insider threat or hacking of Telegram systems that could expose all of these chats to the Russian government," said Eva Galperin with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which has called for Telegram to improve its privacy practices. 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. Russians and Ukrainians are both prolific users of Telegram. They rely on the app for channels that act as newsfeeds, group chats (both public and private), and one-to-one communication. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Telegram has remained an important lifeline for both Russians and Ukrainians, as a way of staying aware of the latest news and keeping in touch with loved ones.
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