Wow! After Israeli intelligence officer Vivian Bercovici fled yesterday's space when I asked her about her intelligence background, there were immediately a number of amendments made to her wikipedia attempting to scrub her connection to Black Cube Intelligence.
On the space, Vivian claimed to be unfamiliar with the ADL. It turns out, not only was ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt following her, but he defended her when she was accused of being a foreign agent
As Canada's ambassador to Israel she had private meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Will the next Pope be a return to tradition for the Catholic Church, or even more progressive than Francis?
A look at the most likely candidates based on current betting odds 🧵
34% 🇮🇹 Pietro Parolin: Vatican Secretary of State who is being called a "continuity candidate" that would continue Francis's reforms.
He was heavily criticised by conservatives in the Vatican for creating a deal with China that allowed the CCP influence over bishop nominations.
🇵🇭 23% Luis Antonio Tagle: Known as "the Asian Francis" and considered even more progressive, Tagle has argued for the church softening its attitude to homosexuals, unwed mothers, and the divorced.
Like Francis, he's also known for social justice advocacy in his home country.
2/13 Obviously the existence of a German people has been known for a long time.
In 98 AD, Tacitus mapped Germania as including the land between the Rhine in the West beyond the Vistula in the East, and from the Danube in the South up to the Baltic seas.
3/13 The contention of this modernist approach to nationalism is that even if a Germanic people pre-existed the 19th Century, people never had a sense of national identity until then.
The Holy Roman Empire is a favourite of this argument due to how divided it was politically.
🇮🇱💥🇸🇾 For years, Israel covertly provided medical aid, weapons, and even paid the salaries of Jihadis in Syria, including Al-Qaeda
The full story of this relationship
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2/12 This relationship first became known when it was revealed that Israel was providing medical aid to anti-Assad fighters
Israel portrayed this as a principled humanitarian response but it turned out most was given to fighters from Al-Nusra front, the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda
3/12 A former head of Mossad acknowledged this was motivated by a "tactical consideration" as Israel was “not specifically targeted by Al-Qaeda”