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Social media is the cornerstone of recruitment and planning for all militant networks

Bot image on Telegram suggesting that pro-white / Neo-Nazis create backup channels on Tam Tam encrypted platform.

Social media is the cornerstone of recruitment and planning for all militant networks; nothing more so than encrypted chat platforms. Recent media reports have been misleading regarding Neo-Nazi use of Telegram being hampered by security sweeps on the platform. While TRAC noted that a dozen or so accounts were taken down in late June 2020, since that time Telegram use has gone unabated on the encrypted platform. With over a billion users worldwide, Telegram now also attracts anarchists as well. Though European anarchists continue to prefer private blogs for communication, North American anarchists quietly entered the Telegram space in 2020. Islamic State and AQ both continue diffuse across multiple platforms, but their foreign language outlets remain unscathed on Telegram.

Beinart’s Final Solution: End Israel as Nation-State of the Jewish People

If Israel were to end its existence as the nation-state of the Jewish people — as Beinart advocates — and become a Jewish “homeland” in a single binational, bi-religious state, a demographic war would become inevitable, in which Jews and Muslims would compete to become a majority. As soon as a Muslim majority materialized, the Jewish “homeland” would become precisely the kind of “Bantustan” that Beinart has railed against in the context of South Africa.

UE: Summit maraton la Bruxelles

După două zile fără rezultate notabile, şefii de stat şi de guvern ai UE şi-au continuat astăzi dezbaterile pe tema unui buget de 1,8 bilioane de euro.

UPDATE

Reuniuni la vârf pe tema bugetului Uniunii Europene pe şapte ani, care să dureze trei zile, sunt mai degrabă ceva obişnuit decât o excepţie. Faptul că de astă dată şefii de stat şi de guvern europeni dezbat şi un a doilea buget, cel de redresare economică, destinat ţărilor cel mai grav afectate de criza coronavirus, şi că sub acest aspect poziţiile partenerilor UE sunt foarte diferite, reprezintă un motiv în plus ca negocierile să dureze. O spun şi unii diplomaţi UE, care au participat şi la legendarul summit de la Nisa, care s-a întins chiar pe durata a patru zile pline.