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| Holiday news dump time; Trump and the Fourth; McCain and 'The View;' Univision looking for a buyer; weekend reads; Disney's new 'Little Mermaid' Posted: 03 Jul 2019 07:23 PM PDT Trump calls admin's own on-the-record statement's "fake news," Maggie Haberman says she scrapped Trump book project, and Sunday's "Reliable" guests... Welcome to the Reliable Sources newsletter. This is Oliver Darcy, filling in for Brian Stelter, who has departed New York City to celebrate the Fourth.
Quick housekeeping note: We will be taking the rest of the week off for the holiday, with Brian returning on Sunday. Now, let's get to the news...
Holiday news dumps?
| | Newsrooms will be operating on skeleton staffs from Thursday through the weekend as employees -- like most of the country -- take time off to celebrate Independence Day. Public relations officials know this, which is why they often time the release of unflattering news to occur during holiday weeks when reporters are off, and America is unplugged not paying much attention.
So as July 4 approaches, it's fair to wonder: What major news dump awaits us? Will there be a dump from the Trump administration, which is -- like always -- embroiled in all sorts of controversies? Or will a Big Tech company like Facebook, which has a history dumping news ahead of holidays, quietly release some information of significant importance? Only time will tell, but it seems more than likely that something will happen.
Military concerned about Trump's July 4 event
Our own Jim Sciutto broke news Wednesday morning that the military chiefs have concerns about the politicization of Trump's Independence Day "Salute to America" event in DC. Sciutto's source said that when the event was being planned, leaders at the Pentagon had reservations about using tanks and other armored vehicles for display.
NYT also published a story later about how the event has rankled some military and defense officials. The story included quite the quote from retired four-star Marine General Anthony C Zinni, who also formerly headed the United States Central Command. Speaking of Trump's Fourth of July event, Zinni said, "Leave tanks for Red Square."
Questions ahead of "Salute to America"
-- What kind of speech will Trump deliver at the event? Will he stick to a more unifying address, or will he riff about politics and the media?
-- Will Trump's festivities get rained out?
-- How much attention will the event get? Fox is planning coverage, but CNN and MSNBC are not expected to carry it live.
-- How upset will Trump be with the resulting news coverage?
Just try to imagine...
Stelter had a great point on Wednesday, when he summed up the past seven days, and questioned how the right would be reacting had Obama behaved in a similar manner: "Between Trump's tanks, meeting Kim at the DMZ, being 'honored' by autocrats at the G20, busing, and 'Mike' Bolton, the 'what if Obama....' meter is off the charts this week."
Related stories
-- Mother Jones obtained the guidance the Pentagon provided servicemen and servicewomen ahead of the July 4 event. It gave three sample messages, including, "I am proud of my job and my vehicle/tank..."
-- Politico reported that White House and RNC officials are "anxious" about the event, and have been "scrambling" to distribute tickets...
Trump calls his administration's own on-the-record comments "fake news"
First Trump told Americans not to believe anonymous sources. Now he's telling Americans not to believe on-the-record information from his own administration.
On Wednesday morning, the president stunned reporters when he tweeted, "The News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is incorrect, or, to state it differently, FAKE!" Of course, those news reports were based on statements provided by Trump's own Justice and Commerce departments.
>> Axios reporter Jonathan Swan tweeted: "If nothing else, questioning straight reporting of on the record statements from two federal departments is an expanded definition of 'fake news.'"
...and causes a major shift in policy
Not only did Trump's tweet storm stun reporters and political observers, but it also ended up prompting the Justice Department to reverse course and seek to determine whether it would be possible to add a question on citizenship that would comply with the Supreme Court's recent ruling. That colossal shift in policy was leading the websites of major news organizations like CNN and NYT heading into the holiday weekend...
RECOMMENDED MEDIA READS FOR THE HOLIDAY
-- California has a new law governing bots and how they interact with users online. But will it "strengthen democracy?" (New Yorker)
-- Rebecca Traister writes that political punditry is "embarrassingly outpaced" by the candidates who "appear smarter, more thoughtful, and to have a nimbler grasp of American history" than those covering them... (NYMag)
-- Taylor Lorenz writes about how young people are "abandoning hyper-produced personalities for people who seem just like them" in this fantastic profile of Emma Chamberlain... (The Atlantic)
-- A look at the "simple way Apple and Google let domestic abusers stalk victims..." (Wired)
-- Why do people rewatch footage of sports injuries? As Sam Anderson writes, "Injury footage is deeply unpleasant. It shows a human in overwhelming pain, not only physical but emotional. Sometimes it shows the end of a career. And yet we can hardly look away..." (NYT Mag)
Meghan McCain, "miserable" at ABC, is thinking about leaving "The View"
More drama behind the scenes at "The View." Sources told Brian and me that McCain feels dejected and sabotaged by her colleagues at ABC, and is seriously considering departing the show. As one senior ABC employee told me, McCain is "miserable" at the network. A friend of McCain's added to Stelter that she "doesn't think it's worth it anymore." The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove, who was first to break news of McCain's dissatisfaction, characterized McCain as "exhausted and defeated."
One of McCain's concerns is a parade of recent leaks that seem intended to hurt her. She believes ABC should be doing more to defend her. But people I spoke with pushed back against that assertion. A senior ABC employee told me that the network has gone "above and beyond" to support McCain. And a television executive associated with the show also said any suggestion otherwise was nonsense. You can read our story with all the details here...
Fox Nation chief was accused of misconduct in 2011
The executive tapped to head the Fox Nation streaming service, John Finley, was accused in 2011 of misconduct, THR's Jeremy Barr reported on Wednesday. Finley, who was at the time Sean Hannity's EP when the accusation was made, was ultimately cleared after a human resources investigation found insufficient evidence, Barr reported.
But the probe did turn up what Barr described as a "problematic email." And two former Fox producers said the woman had felt she needed to exit the network following the conclusion of the investigation, Barr reported. More details in his story here...
>> Fox's full statement to THR: "This 2011 allegation of misconduct was immediately reported to the Human Resources department with a request for an investigation. Although no evidence was found to back up the claim, further steps were taken to ensure the comfort of the staffer, including the implementation of a new reporting structure."
Univision's owners are trying to sell the company again
Brian Stelter emails: Ben Mullin and Cara Lombardo's Wednesday evening scoop: Univision is exploring strategic options including a possible sale, a process that could culminate in a long-sought deal for the Spanish-language broadcaster's private-equity owners." Morgan Stanley, Moelis & Co. and LionTree are advising...
Here's how the Univision board of directors is pitching the assets, per a Wednesday night statement: "Univision's strategic value has never been greater... The U.S. Hispanic audience represents one of the very few certain growth opportunities in today's media marketplace... The demographic and economic drivers of Hispanic consumers will spur growth in media consumption and spending for years to come, and we want Univision to be in the best position to capitalize on this historic opportunity..."
This Sunday on "Reliable Sources"
Stelter emails another one from his road trip: Sunday is a ways away, but we already have some A-list guests lined up: Carl Bernstein, Catherine Rampell, Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, and the first TV interview with the authors of the new book "The Method to the Madness," Allen Salkin and Aaron Short. See you Sunday at 11am ET on CNN!
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- What went wrong at the Youngstown Vindicator, the family-run newspaper in northeast Ohio that is shutting down at the end of the summer? Lukas Alpert takes a look, noting the closure of the newspaper "stands out because it has operated as a monopoly in a city of 65,000...." (WSJ)
-- The cartoonist who was set to replace the artist fired after drawing a viral image of Trump golfing next to the two dead migrants has quit. He said the social media backlash has been brutal and that he "wouldn't wish this on anyone..." (CBC)
-- A school district in Norfolk, Virginia, ordered high school student journalists to delete a video report documenting the school's poor conditions... (Virginia Pilot)
Adviser to Iranian president urges Trump to listen to Tucker Carlson
You don't see this every day. An adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted Wednesday advising Trump to listen to Fox host Tucker Carlson on the United States' foreign policy toward Iran. Carlson, of course, was one of the loudest -- and perhaps most persuasive -- voices on the right urging Trump to avoid military conflict with Iran.
The adviser to Rouhani, Hesameddin Ashena, tweeted that Trump "can listen to Pompeo and we'll make sure he stays a one-term President" or "he could listen to @TuckerCarlson and we might have a different ball game." I'm not sure I have ever heard of a foreign gov't urging a United States president to listen to a Fox host over a cabinet member before...
CREW deletes story on Heather Nauert
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington published a widely shared report on Wednesday which said that former State Department spokesperson and former Fox News personality Heather Nauert had received $167,000 from Fox after having entered government. But CREW's story relied on an uncertified financial report. In fact, the final certified financial report indicated the opposite, and a State Department legal adviser issued a statement saying so. A Fox spokesperson also told me she did not receive a salary while at the State Department.
Nauert turned to Twitter to point out the story was incorrect, and demand an apology. "Your report about me is flat out wrong," Nauert tweeted. Soon after, CREW acknowledged the error, saying in a statement that it had "pulled the post down" as the story "no longer reflects the information contained in the newest version" of the financial report.
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- Sam Stein tweeted that one name floated to him as a possible buyer of ThinkProgress was Tom Steyer. But a Steyer spokesperson told him the billionaire "has no plans" to purchase the progressive website... (Twitter)
-- David Zurawik writes about how "ProPublica and NBC show how righteous media serve democracy..." (Baltimore Sun)
-- A federal appeals court on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of up to 2,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein after the Miami Herald asked the court to issue a ruling... (Miami Herald)
Haberman answers questions from readers
NYT recently invited readers to send in questions for White House correspondent Maggie Haberman. On Wednesday, the newspaper published the answers to a series of questions selected from about 400 readers. Some highlights...
-- On gathering information: "There are encrypted messages, phone calls and meetings in spots where we won't run into people who can identify one or both of us. Protecting the confidentiality of sources is vital."
-- On Trump's view of NYT: "I do think the paper occupies a singular place in his psyche, representing, to him, the elites who he thought didn't take him seriously when he was a developer from Queens trying to move into the Manhattan market."
-- On social media: "We could all be better on Twitter, especially me. I have gotten into needless fights that have made me come off poorly, or made people question my intent, and I deeply regret those moments."
-- On the work-life balance: "The last four years have been very hard on my children, and I am trying to carve out as much time for each of them as I can. It means putting down my phone as much as possible and being present for them."
...Haberman also says she scrapped previous book project
One bit of news from the Q&A... In 2017, it was reported that Haberman and Glenn Thrush had inked a Trump book deal. Soon after, Thrush faced allegations of misconduct, and he was eventually dropped from the deal.
In recent months, there have been whispers that Haberman had also scrapped the project. In her Q&A published on Wednesday, Haberman confirmed the news, writing, "I am no longer writing the book that I was under contract to write."
Carl Cameron says Fox's prime-time lineup was "more than I could stand"
| | Former Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron spoke with Brian for this week's "Reliable Sources" podcast. Cameron praised Fox's news division, but said the "opinion hosts in prime-time and elsewhere on Fox had become more than I could stand."
Cameron added that he had "no objection to opinion hosts," but explained that he believed they should still operate in "accurate, fact based, verifiable" information. The former Fox correspondent also discussed Front Page Live, a website he is working with now that aggregates news from across the web.
>> LISTEN 🔊: You can hear the full episode of the podcast on Sitcher, TuneIn, and iTunes...
| | Meet your new "Little Mermaid"
Frank Pallotta emails: Disney made some waves on Wednesday with the announcement of Halle Bailey as Ariel in its upcoming live-action reboot of "The Little Mermaid." The singer posted a photo of an African American cartoon version of Ariel on Twitter, writing, "Dreams come true…" The film is expected to go into production next year.
>> Context from Pallotta: Disney has had some success in 2019 with live action reboots of its animated classics thanks to "Aladdin" conjuring up more than $870 million globally. And the biggest roar of all is possibly still to come with its remake of "The Lion King," which opens in two weeks.
"Stranger Things" tackles teen troubles in third season
Brian Lowry emails: For your Fourth of July bingeing pleasure, Netflix has dropped the third season of "Stranger Things," where the kids aging into their teens bring with it a new array of problems, but the same old threats, and more nostalgic 1980s movie and TV references than you can shake a collection of Stephen King books at. Read Lowry's full review...
>> Meanwhile, CNN's Paul La Monica considers whether Netflix's home-grown originals, such as "Stranger Things," are enough to offset the loss of acquisitions such as "The Office" as studios funnel more of those signature properties to fill the shelves of their own streaming services.
Merge the movie and TV academies?
Lowry emails another one: In the "This won't happen, but it's interesting to think about" department, THR's Stephen Galloway proposes a merger of the movie and TV academies — that is, the organizations that present the Oscars and Emmys, respectively — citing the blurring lines between the two media, including the question over the eligibility of Netflix movies such as "Roma."
While that's true, both academies have their specific turfs, and there are practical reasons to stay separate, making Galloway's assertion that "at some point the two organizations must become one" an overreach.
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| Trump gives America tanks, himself as birthday presents Posted: 03 Jul 2019 12:50 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  Trump's Wet Fourth Firecrackers On the Fourth of July, President Donald Trump is giving his country the greatest birthday gift of all in this time of polarization: more reasons to fight with itself. Not that we need an excuse; we're ready to feud about sneakers. But we're more seriously divided about the "Salute to America" Trump has planned for tomorrow, featuring a speech from himself, VIP access for GOP insiders and displays of troops, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets. Jonathan Bernstein speaks for many critics (including some military veterans and current military leaders) when he notes the troubling similarities between this celebration and those of insecure authoritarians such as Trump's pal Kim Jong Un. Not only is he making the Fourth of July a partisan thing, but more troublingly, Trump keeps squeezing the supposedly neutral military in a tighter embrace. Noah Feldman seems less worried about the sanctity of the Fourth of July itself, saying the very idea of Independence Day was borne of partisanship favoring Thomas Jefferson over George Washington. But no matter how you feel about Trump's extravaganza, it's a little uncomfortable celebrating freedom this week after new reports of the horrific conditions detained migrants are enduring at the southern border. Trump's policies have created a real humanitarian crisis in response to a fake one, Tim O'Brien writes. Courts may once again ride to the rescue, but this episode will stain the meaning of Independence Day for decades. 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| Tunisia Carries On Despite Troubling Attack Evidence (Zelin | PolicyWatch 3149) Posted: 03 Jul 2019 11:46 AM PDT TUNISIA KEEPS CALM AND CARRIES ON AFTER LATEST TERRORIST ATTACK by Aaron Y. Zelin PolicyWatch 3149
July 3, 2019 Links between this attack and older jihadist networks underscore the complex nature of Tunisian radicalization, even if suspicious government data trends seem to suggest the problem is diminishing. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
On June 27, four years and a day after the Sousse Beach attack, Tunisia suffered twin suicide bombings against security services at two different locations in the capital’s downtown district. Within hours, however, life returned to normal in the city. The government soon highlighted that tourism was unaffected—a far different outcome than the 2015 Sousse attack, which saw mass cancellations by would-be visitors and spurred President Beji Caid Essebsi to claim that “if similar attacks occur again, the state will collapse.” The North African republic is now far more mature in dealing with security threats related to jihadism; no longer do officials express existential angst, whether legitimate or fear mongering. Compared to 2015, the state and the people were far better prepared to deal with the aftermath of the latest attacks. Yet the growing lack of transparency regarding terrorism arrests and the apparent links to past jihadist mobilizations should draw concern about Tunisia’s broader transition from authoritarian tendencies to democracy and rule of law. LINKS TO PAST NETWORKS On the morning of June 27, an individual detonated a suicide bomb near a police patrol station in central Tunis. One officer died and another was injured, along with three civilians. The unnamed perpetrator was born in 1988, originally hailed from the Bab Jadid district of Tunis, and had previously worked in crafts in the Medina quarter. Following the attack, one accomplice was arrested, and security units raided the perpetrator’s house and discovered materials used to manufacture explosives. Ten minutes after the first bomb went off, a second exploded near the back door of the judiciary police administration office in the city’s Gorjani district, injuring four officers. The attacker, who arrived on a bicycle, tried to break into the headquarters of the special antiterrorist unit, triggering the blast when the gate opened and a police vehicle came out. A security source suggested that he was assisted in reaching this locale. Although the unit’s spokesperson, Sofien Sliti, told AFP that the perpetrator had been identified, this information was not revealed publicly. Later in the day, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for both bombings; the claim gained credibility the next day, when Sliti noted that a link had been established between the attacks. Meanwhile, security forces arrested twenty-five people on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization, glorifying terrorist operations, or engaging in prohibited activities. As part of the investigation, police raided al-Ghufran Mosque in the Tunis neighborhood of Hay al-Intilaka, seizing a large amount of explosives. They also hunted down and killed the mastermind of the twin attacks, whom the Interior Ministry identified as twenty-three-year-old Ayman al-Samiri. Security services initially spotted him in the Hay al-Intilaka train station. Upon confronting him, they shot him, at which point he set off a suicide vest; fortunately, there were no other casualties. Notably, Hay al-Intilaka is the hometown of the Islamic State operative who planned the 2015 Bardo and Sousse attacks, Shams al-Din al-Sandi; he was based in Libya at the time, but his current whereabouts are unknown. It is also one of the neighborhoods where jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia was active following the country’s revolution, before it was designated as a terrorist organization in 2013. Among other local footholds, AST was known to control al-Ghufran Mosque during those years. Through various events and activities, some documented on social media, AST propagated its worldview to much of the district’s population, effectively socializing its radical ideas. It took the same approach in other areas of Tunisia. Many citizens could still sympathize with the jihadist cause at the time because AST initially appeared to limit itself to dawa (outreach) and governance activities. In Hay al-Intilaka, for example, the group passed out literature in markets and cafes, tasked sympathetic clerics with giving religious lectures, organized neighborhood cleanups, provided food to needy families, and held Quranic memorization sessions—all under the slogan “Your Sons Are at Your Service.” It is difficult to measure the extent to which such activities affected those exposed to them, but one thing is clear: many AST alumni later became involved with foreign fighter campaigns abroad and insurgent activities at home. According to local media reports, some of these foreign fighter returnees are back home, out of prison, and living freely in Hay al-Intilaka and other parts of Tunisia. MORE ARRESTS, THEN MORE SECRECY? From the beginning of 2014 to now, Tunisian law enforcement conducted 1,411 arrests related to jihadism, according to press releases by the Interior Ministry cross-checked with local media reports. Determining exactly how many individuals have been detained is difficult because a number of the arrests involved repeat offenders. Yet there was a clear upward trend in annual arrests related to jihadism: 32 in 2014, 163 in 2015, 262 in 2016, 404 in 2017, and 521 in 2018. This trend makes the data compiled since late 2018 all the more confounding. The pace of announced arrests has dropped precipitously since November, and only 29 have been recorded in 2019. At that rate, the annual tally would be less than 60, far below the pace seen in the past four years. This might sound like good news at first—implying that Tunisian law enforcement has become more discriminating and more capable of using intelligence information rather than simply arresting anyone remotely related to a particular incident. Yet it is also possible that the Interior Ministry is no longer disclosing arrests in a fully transparent manner. Given the trend from the previous few years, having the numbers go down so drastically and quickly does not seem realistic. It is conceivable that security services are truly conducting so few arrests, but the sudden decline merits some skepticism. Interestingly, the data drop-off began after this author’s October 2018 PolicyWatch regarding an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack by a lone woman in Tunis. That article was partly based on information from Interior Ministry press releases; the fact that such data began to dissipate directly afterward may just be a coincidence, but the pattern is striking. If the government’s arrest data does turn out to be incomplete or otherwise flawed, local and foreign researchers will have much more trouble assessing the scope and direction of jihadist trends in Tunisia. It would also portend a retrenchment to the more authoritarian practices of the pre-2011 regime. POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Tunisia’s security landscape today is markedly more developed than it was four years ago. The government should be commended for the improvements it has made with help from the United States, the European Union, and Algeria, while the population’s resilience illustrates that the intended effect of local terrorism has lost much of its power over time. Regardless of this progress, however, Tunisian jihadists—whether returnees from abroad, local cells, or current prisoners—will not stop trying to undermine the state. Given the currently fragile context of upcoming elections and Essebsi’s health concerns, Washington should continue supporting the government’s efforts to bring its security, judiciary, and prison systems more in line with the rule of law in a democratic framework. U.S. officials should also make clear to Tunis that transparency in how its security agencies deal with jihadism offers more upsides than downsides in the long term. Finally, a better understanding of past jihadist networks and locales would provide clues on where terrorist activity might arise in the future, since this type of mobilization does not come out of nowhere. Aaron Zelin is the Richard Borow Fellow at The Washington Institute and author of the forthcoming book Your Sons Are at Your Service: Tunisia’s Missionaries of Jihad (Columbia University Press).
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| The Muslim Brotherhood After Morsi Posted: 03 Jul 2019 10:08 AM PDT | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | | | | July 3, 2019 The dramatic death of the former president of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi reignited debate about the future of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and political Islam across the region. Five experts offer insights into these reactions and explain their domestic implications. | | | | | | |   |
| Settlers Don’t Vote for “Settler Champion” Netanyahu (Haaretz) Posted: 03 Jul 2019 10:06 AM PDT 'SETTLER CHAMPION' NETANYAHU CAN'T EVEN GET THE SETTLERS TO VOTE FOR HIM by David Makovsky, Basia Rosenbaum, and David Patkin Haaretz
July 3, 2019 The prime minister delivers for West Bank settlers at great cost internationally, but election results show they don't pay him back at the ballot box. READ THIS ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE
Ever since Avigdor Lieberman denied Benjamin Netanyahu the coalition he sought in late May, Israel’s prime minister has believed he can hurt Lieberman by calling him a “leftist,” which triggered a war of words between them. Yet, as Israel gears up for yet another election campaign following Netanyahu’s failure to form a government, it is worth pointing out that—despite huge efforts by both to demonstrate their right-wing bona-fides—settlers themselves aren’t voting for Netanyahu or for Lieberman. Perhaps each should draw conclusions from the last election results and look for voters elsewhere. After analyzing official election returns involving 125 settlements in the last four Knesset elections (2009, 2013, 2015, and 2019), it is clear that settlers stopped voting for Lieberman a long time ago. Today Lieberman gets less than a third of the settler vote compared to his results a decade ago in the West Bank, and his party is now essentially off the map (1.67 percent of settler votes in 2019 versus 5.66 percent in 2009). Even in his own hometown settlement of Nokdim, he trailed in fifth place in the last elections with only 9.3 percent of the vote. Therefore, it is not surprising that Lieberman is now making clear that he would not rule out joining a government led by the Kachol Lavan centrist party, and is focusing less on settler issues and far more on his longtime campaign to be the acknowledged champion of secular Israelis against ultra-Orthodox demands and social restrictions. Lieberman is not the only one who gets little from the settlers. But Netanyahu—Israel’s first premier with an MBA—apparently hasn’t yet realized he also doesn’t get much return on his investment in West Bank settlements. Netanyahu has made huge rhetorical and policy efforts that should have gained the support of settlers both inside and outside of the security barrier. He has come a long way from May 2011, when he publicly declared in the Knesset that he would only represent the national consensus of settlers who live in the main settlement blocs—meaning, not settlements over the security barrier—or in 2009, when he said he would support a Palestinian state. Now Netanyahu has banished the term “blocs” just as he no longer says “Palestinian state.” He had already sharply shifted his position by 2016, when he got cold feet considering a national unity government with Labor party head Yitzhak Herzog, whose chief policy demand was no building outside settlement blocs. Since then, Netanyahu has persuaded Trump not to publicly criticize him on settlements, even if the U.S. president publicly urged Israel to “hold back” on further settlement building in his very first White House meeting with Netanyahu in February 2017. Despite all this, settlers have not supported Likud in commensurately, or sufficiently, large numbers. Efforts by Netanyahu to avoid alienating settlers at the ballot box just have not worked. Likud is not the biggest party in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. United Torah Judaism is the largest party, almost entirely due to support in two major Haredi settlements—Modiin Illit and Beitar Illit. In the entire West Bank, Likud won 20.65 percent in 2019. This compares to 18.5 percent in 2009. In other words, for all Netanyahu has done for the settlers, he can only show a grand gain of about 2 percent over the last decade. Moreover, Netanyahu is trounced outside the security barrier by voters who don’t belong to the ultra-Orthodox community as well. He is viewed as a poor imitation of the “authentic” settler Right, and not as the original. In the 2019 elections, right-wing, non-Haredi parties beat Netanyahu’s Likud by a whopping 3-1 margin: those right-wing parties outpaced Netanyahu outside the barrier by a 58.9 percent to 20.2 percent margin. That is double the margin of a decade ago. These settlers do not trust Netanyahu’s ideological purity when it comes to settlements. The same picture emerges inside the security barrier. While it is true that populous Beitar Illit and Modiin Illit tend to skew the vote largely for the Haredi parties, the fact remains that Likud no longer outpaces its more right-wing rivals even inside the barrier. Again, look at the trends: inside the barrier in 2009, Likud received 25.2 percent, and its non-Haredi right-wing competitors Habayit Hayehudi and National Union were at 20.9 percent. In 2019, Likud was 20.7 percent and its right-wing competitors—Union of Right-Wing Parties, Yemin Hehadash, Israel Beiteinu and Zehut—were at 24.98 percent. Why does Netanyahu’s declining performance in the West Bank settlement demographic matter? Perhaps the lesson is that Netanyahu does not have to pander to the settlers, especially those living outside the barrier, as he has in the last few election cycles. The results show that regardless of Netanyahu’s bids to appeal to the settler right, other right-wing parties always prevail with them, particularly more firmly ideological settlers outside the security barrier. Moreover, the settlers will join a Likud coalition no matter what—and never to any party to its left. The settlers may not support him sufficiently, and Netanyahu’s support for settlers (especially outside the barrier) has been very costly internationally in terms of bipartisan support for Israel in the U.S. and among younger liberal American Jews. In 2017, a Pew survey found that only 17 percent of American Jews think that continued settlement-building helps Israel’s security. The 2018 AJC survey of American Jews found that 59 percent of American Jews think that Israel should dismantle some or all settlements, compared to 39 percent of Israelis. Now, the emerging annexation issue could exacerbate this split between domestic political calculations versus the international price of support. Netanyahu’s sudden decision to mention annexation two days before the April election—after not mentioning the word for 13 years as prime minister—was viewed by most Israelis as cynical political expediency. If so, it was a marked success: he pulled the rug out from two competitors by coopting their pro-annexation argument—Naftali Bennett’s Yemin Hahadash and Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut, who both failed to cross the 3.25 percent threshold to enter the Knesset. On the other hand, Netanyahu’s comments created a firestorm in the U.S. about Israel’s intentions in the West Bank. Interestingly, while Netanyahu’s comments on annexation drew votes away from other right-wing parties, it was not political rocket fuel for him among the settlers. Nonetheless, his takeaway from this past election might be to double down on his annexation bet in September. No doubt the settlers will want Netanyahu to deepen his comments to extend Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank beyond his remarks on the eve of the April election. What began as a political tactic could entangle Netanyahu further, to the extent that he feels he needs to say more on annexation just to stay in place—without regard to further damaging bipartisan support for Israel in the U.S. Bipartisanship sounds like an abstraction to Netanyahu, and an issue irrelevant to his immediate political needs, so long as he has Trump’s support here and now. If he remains in power, Netanyahu will pay a longer-term price for adopting an undifferentiated view of the West Bank, in comparison to his relatively more restrained view when he only spoke of formalizing Israeli control over settlement blocs. But even in the short-term, he is getting little for his investment. The settlers have not delivered the goods for Netanyahu, even as he keeps delivering for them. David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute and helped create its interactive mapping tool Settlements and Solutions: Is It Too Late for Two States? Basia Rosenbaum and David Patkin provide research support to the Institute’s Project on Arab-Israel Relations.
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| Wednesday Morning Briefing: Abandoned by the UAE, Sudan’s Bashir was destined to fall Posted: 03 Jul 2019 06:12 AM PDT |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | United States | | | | | | Former Vice President Joe Biden has lost support among African-Americans after taking heat on racial issues during the party’s first debate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey, conducted from Friday to Monday in the days following the debate in Miami, found 22 percent of adults who identify as Democrats or independents said they supported Biden, down 8 percentage points from a similar poll conducted earlier in June. Support for Biden among blacks, a critical Democratic voting bloc, was cut in half, with about two out of 10 saying they backed Obama’s former vice president, compared with four out of 10 in the June poll. | | | | | | | | Trump administration retreats on census citizenship question. In a stinging defeat for Trump, his administration ended its effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census, saying that it will begin printing forms that do not include the contentious query. But, nevertheless, Trump later indicated he would still try to get the “most vital” question included on the questionnaire. | | | | Battle tanks were seen on a train in Washington ahead of a July Fourth celebration highlighting U.S. military might that Democrats say Trump may turn into a re-election campaign rally. Amid questions about the cost and tone of the event, White House officials said the Republican president will avoid politics and stick to patriotic themes in his speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Thursday. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tech | | A senior U.S. official told the Commerce Department’s enforcement staff this week that China’s Huawei should still be treated as blacklisted, days after Trump sowed confusion with a vow to ease a ban on sales to the firm. 4 min read | | | | Tesla set a record for quarterly vehicle deliveries in a triumphant response to months of questions about demand for its luxury electric cars, sending shares up 7% after hours. Tesla did not comment on profit - which is still elusive - but the robust deliveries could help jumpstart investor sentiment on Tesla, which has been challenged in recent months. 4 Min Read | | | | A man poured a bottle of water over Baidu Chief Executive Robin Li at the opening of an annual conference for the Chinese search giant. Li was speaking of applications for artificial intelligence in a speech when the young man approached him, spilled the liquid over Li’s head, and walked away. 2 min read | | | | Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China’s embattled Huawei exacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut. 5 min read | | | | | | | | | | | | | Top Stories on Reuters TV | | | | | | | |  |
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