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| Women's World Cup ratings; TV tour; Tuesday planner; fake quote, real problem; from Breitbart to the White House; 'I Love You, Now Die' on HBO Posted: 08 Jul 2019 08:21 PM PDT All the day's media news – from Maria Ressa to "Stranger Things 3," from Jeff Bezos to Ari Emanuel, from fake quotes to real settlements... World champions
The USWNT arrived at Newark airport on Monday afternoon for the first of several days of media appearances. The NBC, ABC and CBS nightly newscasts all included World Cup stories near the top of the rundown.
Some of the players spoke with reporters, including CNN's Erica Hill, after they arrived stateside. On Tuesday morning the team will be live in Times Square on "GMA." Then comes Wednesday morning's ticker tape parade in NYC and a cross-country flight so that the players can attend The ESPYs in L.A. on Wednesday night. The awards telecast will be live on ABC...
SI's cover
Getty's Richard Heathcote has the cover photo on this "World Class" World Cup edition of Sports Illustrated: | | The ratings
An 11 a.m. ET kickoff on Sunday seemed likely to tamp down total viewership in the US. But the ratings were still quite strong despite the midday time slot. Last year's men's World Cup final between France and Croatia averaged 11.4 million viewers on Fox. The women's match averaged 14 million on Fox and another 1.6 million viewers in Spanish on Telemundo.
That's enough to make it the highest-rated soccer match in the U.S. in four years. In 2015, the Women's World Cup final was played in the evening, giving it a boost, and a massive 25 million viewer #. This time around, viewership during the match peaked at 19.6 million viewers. Here's my full story...
--> More context via the LAT's Stephen Battaglio: "Sunday's World Cup final audience of 15.6 million viewers was also larger than four of the six 2019 NBA Finals contests between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors..."
Streaming reality check
Sunday's face-off is also a reminder that viewers will choose old-fashioned big-screen TV over streaming whenever possible. According to Fox, the average minute audience (the closest thing comparable to Nielsen #'s) for its web streams was 289,000. So about 14 million people watched via TV and almost 300,000 watched via streaming...
Watters' fictional world
While Fox Sports celebrated the terrific ratings, Fox News commentator Jesse Watters claimed the players were "not helping their case" for equal pay by acting in "unpatriotic ways" and trashing Trump. He said he talked to "many many people" over the weekend who said they were choosing not to watch "because I didn't like what they said." If I had to choose between Watters' anecdotes and Fox Sports' statistics, I'd take the stats any day...
--> BTW, still no word about whether Trump will invite the team to the White House... On Monday's "Cuomo Prime Time," Chris Cuomo urged him to "showcase them..."
"How the World Cup Team Beat Trump"
That's the title on Charlie Warzel's latest opinion piece for the NYT. He says the team "provided a master class in how to wield what is, for many of us, our greatest weapon: our attention." Megan Rapinoe and her teammates turned out to be "an excellent foil to a president with an oxygen-sucking gift for commandeering attention..."
TUESDAY PLANNER
Allen & Company's annual Sun Valley conference for media and tech bigwigs is getting underway...
Felix Sater, who overslept the last time he was scheduled to testify, is slated to appear before the House Intelligence Committee (but behind closed doors) in the morning...
"Aziz Ansari Right Now" is streaming on Netflix...
CBS is launching "Love Island..."
Tuesday's new books include Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino's "Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court," which is already No. 2 on Amazon... And "Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short" by William D. Cohan...
Ed Henry's gift of life
Prayers for Fox's Ed Henry and his sister Colleen -- she has been battling degenerative liver disease for the last few years -- and on Tuesday he will donate part of his liver to her. "I am determined to do whatever I can to give my sister the greatest gift of all, which quite simply is life," he wrote in this column on Sunday. He also shared the news about his impending medical leave on "Fox & Friends."
This is truly inspiring... Read all of what Henry wrote here...
FOR THE RECORD, PART ONE
-- "Rupert Murdoch's News Group Newspapers has agreed to pay Heather Mills and her sister a 'substantial' settlement over claims stemming from a decade-old phone hacking scandal," Hadas Gold reports... (CNN)
-- Elizabeth Williamson's latest: "The United States Agency for Global Media, the government's foreign broadcast service, already struggling to clean house after a series of scandals last year at flagship operations like Voice of America and TV Martí, is now being rocked by two new cases that have raised further questions about its journalistic and financial management..." (NYT)
| | What prompts Trump's fury against Fox
The AP's David Bauder and Jonathan Lemire are out with a new story about the president's anti-Fox tweets. Key graf: Trump "has angrily told confidants he is confused about why Fox News sometimes 'goes negative' in its coverage of his administration when it features an unflattering portrait of his White House, the advisers said..."
Breitbart's White House correspondent joins W.H.
Oliver Darcy emails: Breitbart's White House correspondent joined the White House on Monday, sources told Kaitlan Collins and me. After our story published, a spokesperson for the White House confirmed the hire. The correspondent, Michelle Moons, will work in the office of Domestic Policy.
Breitbart employees were notified that Moons had jumped from the far-right website to the White House on Monday morning. Jon Kahn, Breitbart's chief operating officer, called Moons an "integral part" of the DC team, and said the website was "very proud of her." He told employees not to comment on the hire publicly, but suggested they "reach out to her directly to offer congratulations."
Fake quote, real problem
Trump shared "a fake quote from former Republican President Ronald Reagan on Twitter on Monday." Daniel Dale got to the bottom of it: "Trump passed along a tweet from an obscure account that called itself 'The Reagan Battalion,' which appeared to be impersonating a well-known conservative account of the same name. The copycat account had fewer than 300 followers at the time Trump promoted it."
Here's the thing: "The fake Reagan quote has been debunked by fact-checkers since 2016, when it began spreading in pro-Trump circles on Facebook," Dale notes. Yet the president still went out of his way to spread the lie...
Facebook confirms it has not been invited to W.H. social media summit
Oliver Darcy emails: I reported on Sunday morning that the White House had not extended invitations to Facebook and Twitter to attend its social media summit on Thursday. On Monday, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the company had not been invited to the event.
Of course, the sources I spoke with do not expect the summit to include a serious discussion of issues facing large technology companies. Instead, they expect it to amount largely to a right-wing grievance session. The lack of invitations to major social media companies seems to, at the very least, hint at that...
FOR THE RECORD, PART TWO
-- Norah O'Donnell taped an interview with Jeff Bezos and Caroline Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston, marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission... The sit-down will air next Monday, on O'Donnell's first night in the "CBS Evening News" chair... (Globe)
-- O'Donnell and "CBS This Morning" co-host Tony Dokoupil will helm their respective programs from the Kennedy Space Center next Tuesday, the anniversary of the liftoff... (CBS)
-- Eric Swalwell is out of the Democratic race... Tom Steyer is getting in... And CNN's plans for the July 30 and 31 debates are out... (CNN)
-- New parts of Chris Cuomo's exclusive interview with Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden aired on Monday night... (CNN)
Epstein staying behind bars
Jeffrey Epstein will remain in detention at least until next week, following preliminary court proceedings on Monday. Law enforcement officials gave credit to the Miami Herald and reporter Julie K. Brown's work while announcing the indictment at a presser. "We were assisted" by "some excellent investigative journalism," Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said. William Sweeney, the assistant director-in-charge of the FBI's New York office, added, "We work with facts. When the facts presented themselves, as Mr. Berman hinted at, through investigative journalists' work, we moved on it."
While they didn't cite Brown or the newspaper by name, Berman said in response to a question about the Herald, "we are certainly aware of that reporting." Brown was in the room for the press conference...
Revisiting this 2003 Vanity Fair profile...
Per Politico's Michael Calderone: "Journalist Vicky Ward tweeted on Monday that a 2003 Vanity Fair profile she wrote about Epstein was 'far from the whole story,' claiming that the publication's editor at the time, Graydon Carter, cut out first-person accounts of Epstein's treatment of women from a mother and her two daughters... Carter said in a statement on Monday that editors at the magazine viewed Ward's reporting as less bulletproof than her tweets indicated. 'In the end, we didn't have confidence in Ward's reporting,' said Carter, who left Vanity Fair in 2017. 'We were not in the habit of running away from a fight. But she simply didn't have the goods.'"
Maria Ressa's defense team
CNN's Richard Roth and Euan McKirdy report: "International human rights lawyers Amal Clooney and Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC will lead a legal team representing Maria Ressa, the award-winning Philippines journalist who has been repeatedly arrested this year on charges that critics say are designed to silence her..."
FOR THE RECORD, PART THREE
By Oliver Darcy:
-- "As the World Heats Up, the Climate for News Is Changing, Too:" News organizations are dedicating more resources to covering climate change, Marc Tracy observes. But "even among journalists who want to convey that climate change is a crisis, there is not unanimity about how to play it..." (NYT)
-- ProPublica is hiring a reporter to cover accountability issues in Youngstown, Ohio, now that The Vindicator is closing up shop... (ProPublica)
-- Media Matters researcher Natalie Martinez examined the random social media comments that Fox News airs during morning show segments… (Media Matters)
"Loudest Voice" ratings update
Last week there was a dust-up about the Nielsen #'s for the premiere of "The Loudest Voice" on Showtime -- with numerous news outlets writing stories about the weak ratings and suggesting that there was little interest in the miniseries about Roger Ailes and Fox News. Showtime said otherwise -- and predicted that the show would top a million viewers through on-demand viewing. Now the network is out with new #'s to back it up: "The premiere of 'The Loudest Voice' has been seen so far by almost 1.6 million viewers across platforms," Showtime PR said on Monday... This total counts the premiere, the TV replays, DVRing, VOD, and streaming...
Lowry reviews "I Love You, Now Die"
Brian Lowry emails: HBO is diving into two-part true-crime documentaries this month, which feels like a bit of a dumbing-down of its brand. An exception would be the first of those offerings, "I Love You, Now Die," director Erin Lee Carr's look at the "texting suicide" case of Michelle Carter -- and specifically, whether the current justice system is fully prepared to deal with the complicated legal and ethical issues associated with social media. In that respect, it's a case with significant implications. And the film raises all the right questions.
On Monday, just as Carr was about to appear on "CNN Newsroom" with Brooke Baldwin to talk about the documentary, Carter's attorneys petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her case -- perhaps well-timed to capitalize on publicity associated with the HBO telecast on Tuesday and Wednesday night...
FIRST LOOK
Variety's next cover
This week's Variety cover story by Cynthia Littleton and Brent Lang is titled "IT'S WAR" -- an in-depth look at the battle between the WGA and Hollywood's largest talent agencies... With Ari Emanuel on the cover... The story will be up on Variety.com on Tuesday morning... | |
FOR THE RECORD, PART FOUR
-- Jessica Toonkel's look at Sun Valley deal action: "Plenty of Sellers but Few Buyers..." (The Information)
-- Mark Bergen and Kurt Wagner's latest raises lots of Q's: "How Facebook Fought Fake News About Facebook..." (Bloomberg)
-- Thrillist has hired Meghan Kirsch, "most recently Vice Media's SVP of marketing and creative, as chief content officer..." (Variety)
-- "'Red Notice' is setting up shop at Netflix. The big budget international heist feature starring Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot has moved from Universal to the streaming service..." (THR)
-- "Fox Entertainment's content development accelerator SideCar, launched in February and headed by Gail Berman, has set its executive team..." (Deadline)
| | Netflix touts "Stranger Things 3" record
Netflix tweeted this on Monday evening: "'Stranger Things 3' is breaking Netflix records! 40.7 million household accounts have been watching the show since its July 4 global launch — more than any other film or series in its first four days. And 18.2 million have already finished the entire season."
Usual caveat applies: There's no third party source for this data...
Marvel should slow its post-'Endgame' roll
Brian Lowry emails: As counter-intuitive as it might seem after the big "Spider-Man: Far From Home" opening, Marvel should embrace the strategy that Disney CEO Bob Iger articulated after "Solo: A Star Wars Story" yielded disappointing results -- namely, a bit of a slowdown. Marvel continues riding high, but the company is still absorbing the character losses from "Avengers: Endgame;" pivoting to service the streaming service Disney+; and working to incorporate Fantastic Four and X-Men, two signature properties that had belonged to Fox, into its cinematic universe. That's a lot to process, and one reason the studio should proceed cautiously in the next phase of its admittedly thus far can't-miss box-office streak...
Who wants to host an awards show?
Megan Thomas emails: Here's a great story from VF's Laura Bradley about how no one wants to host award shows anymore.
Bradley quotes a source who says: "If the fans love it, you've probably alienated and pissed off the producers and the network, potentially advertisers. And if the network is super happy, you're probably getting crushed on Twitter for being boring. So then what?"
Her bottom line: "Why do something as involved as emceeing an awards ceremony when you can just as easily cash in on, say, a Starbucks commercial?"
FOR THE RECORD, PART FIVE
By Lisa Respers France:
-- Cameron Boyce's last interview paid tribute to his African-American heritage. The Disney star died this past weekend at the age of 20.
-- Shawn Mendes shrugged off a fan question as to whether he and his "Senorita" song duet partner Camila Cabello are dating...
-- Mariah Carey put a diva twist on the #BottleCapChallenge...
-- Terry Crews wants to play King Triton in "The Little Mermaid" remake...
-- Okay "Lion King" cast now let's get in formation. Disney released an almost full cast photo on Monday...
ICYMI...
Catch up on Sunday's "Reliable Sources"
Read the transcript... Hear the podcast edition via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, or your preferred app... And/or watch the video clips on CNN.com...
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| Popular Mobilization Force Reform in Iraq (Knights | Defense Post) Posted: 08 Jul 2019 02:00 PM PDT POPULAR MOBILIZATION FORCE REFORM IN IRAQ: REINTEGRATION OR CONSOLIDATION OF MILITIA POWER? by Michael Knights Defense Post
July 8, 2019 Recent decisions by the Iraqi PM to curtail the PMFs influence may just swap one threat for another. READ THIS ARTICLE ON OUR WEBSITE
On July 1, Iraq's Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi issued his first executive order on the issue of reforming the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic), the mixture of Iran-backed militias and new volunteers raised as a reserve army to fight Islamic State five years ago. In late June, I returned from my third research visit to Iraq this year, where I had an opportunity to speak at length to Prime Minister Mahdi and other Iraqi leaders about the forthcoming PMF reform plan. Iraqi leaders recognize that the PMF is in danger of damaging its reputation inside Iraq if it is not brought under control, both in terms of cracking down on mafia-like economic activities and stopping unauthorized attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and on neighboring states. Mahdi's 560-word executive order briefly outlines a broader and more detailed plan that has been under development for nearly a year. The plan has the potential to either reduce the risk from militias or dangerously consolidate their power, depending on how it is implemented. The July 1 order, and an earlier prime ministerial statement on June 18, forbid a range of activities by the armed volunteer units. PMF units must not maintain bases unless they are expressly authorized by the state, nor may they have economic offices or money-making ventures. They should not move forces, store weapons or manufacture arms "outside the knowledge, administration and control" of the prime minister. Any armed faction operating outside these rules should be "considered outside the law and accordingly prosecuted." Though not stated yet in public, the PMF are also expected to gradually redeploy from their numerous small bases to larger cantons, as security conditions permit. This means that predominately Shia PMF units from the south of Iraq will, within the next year or two, be progressively withdrawn from areas like the Syrian border region and Islamic State "hot spots" like Nineveh, Salah al-Din, Kirkuk, and Anbar. In the notional scheme being envisaged by Iraqi leaders, the PMF units would be withdrawn to four canton areas: the circle of rural districts outside Baghdad; Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad; the shrine city of Samarra, north of Baghdad; and the desert flank from the shrine city of Karbala all the way to the Saudi border. In essence, the PMF would be pulled back from Sunni-only areas to form a defensive belt between Sunni-majority Iraq and the Shia areas. A test case is being undertaken this week to lower the profile of PMF units in Christian areas near Mosul, a clear gesture towards U.S. sensibilities regarding minorities near the city. A full-scale redeployment is a tall order and would take years to implement. It will require Iraqi Army forces to be sent north to backfill the PMF, leaving fewer non-PMF units around the government center in the capital. Iraq has a history of military coups, and there is still lingering political mistrust of the military among older political leadership. However, removal of the army from Baghdad could simply make the government more vulnerable to PMF pressure instead, swapping one threat for another. There is also a risk that a PMF consolidation program could benefit the central leadership under Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the operational leader of the PMF and a U.S.-designed terrorist. At present, the PMF are fractured into 60 or so units, limiting Abu Mahdi's grip. The consolidation program, which includes the shedding of individual militia names, will centralize authority that is presently wielded by Abu Mahdi. Nor is justice likely to be independently applied to PMF-related militants who break the new rules. Abu Mahdi and another Tehran-backed player, Abu Zaynab al-Lami, run the internal affairs wing of the PMF, which is charged with cracking down on offenders. As a result, the imposition of internal discipline is likely to benefit leaders supported by Iran more than any other faction. The U.S. must now balance patience and the maintenance of pressure in its dealings with the Iraqi government on these issues. Iraq's leadership should be quietly commended for beginning this process and laying out such an ambitious agenda, but the proof is in implementation. To reduce the risk of unintended and negative consequences from the PMF reform effort, the Iraqi government—encouraged and supported by its international security partners—should begin to gradually transition the mid-level leadership of the PMF into the hands of a broader range of factions, including non-political figures and leaders nominated by major shrine foundations. In time, figures like Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Abu Zaynab al-Lami, who have plenty of rivals, could be isolated and eased out. The sanctioning of some Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups—which is likely this summer—may be less contentious than before, being that groups such as Kata'ib Al-Imam Ali (led by the U.S.-designated terrorist Shibl al-Zaydi) will no longer have any units of the PMF named after them. One early sign of seriousness that the Iraqi government could show would be the re-entry of government security forces into the bases previously monopolized by the larger Iranian-backed PMF units. For instance, the Iranian drones launched against Saudi Arabia pipelines came from Jurf as-Sakr, a military zone just outside Baghdad in which Abu Mahdi's faction, the U.S.-designated terrorist movement Kata'ib Hezbollah, denies the Iraqi government any access. If Iraq is serious about PMF reform, this base and others run by Badr, Kata'ib Al-Imam Ali, and Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq should open their doors to immediate inspection to show they are under state control. Michael Knights, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute, has spent long periods working in Iraq since 2003, including considerable time embedded with the country's security forces. This article was originally published on the Defense Post website.
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| Deutsche Bank begins exciting new lopping-off-parts phase Posted: 08 Jul 2019 01:53 PM PDT Bloomberg Opinion Today Today's Agenda  Deutsche Bank's Harsh Self-Treatment Like a body gripped by frostbite, Deutsche Bank AG is cutting off the blood flow to failing parts. It's a necessary but risky threat response. The German giant, which never quite shed the doldrums of the financial crisis, is lopping off its money-losing equities trading business and a fifth of its work force, among other vital-sounding things, to better focus on serving corporate clients. In so doing, it gives up a 20-year dream of becoming "the Goldman Sachs of Europe," Elisa Martinuzzi writes. It's the kind of bitter medicine Deutsche Bank has needed for a long time, but pulling it off safely will be a feat, Elisa notes, and investors are understandably skeptical. One challenge will be ensuring the trauma of this latest restructuring, Deutsche's third in four years, doesn't weaken stronger parts of its empire, notes Nisha Gopalan. Its currency and fixed-income trading business might help attract corporate customers in Asia, for example, Nisha writes – unless those traders start anticipating they'll be next on the chopping block. Part of Deutsche's plan involves shifting some assets into a "bad bank," which Matt Levine notes is the second such bank Deutsche has created since the crisis. Again, that's not a huge confidence-builder: "If you keep bad-banking bits of the remainder, people start doubting the core." Preventing the Next Crisis One thing that could have eased or even prevented the aforementioned financial crisis might have been a rule forcing banks to provision against the possible downside of their lending orgy during the housing bubble. To that end, after years of wrangling, the U.S. is juuust about to start using a "Current Expected Credit Loss" rule, which would make banks build a bigger cushion against potential losses. Bank lobbyists hate it, of course, so naturally Congress is starting to hate it too. The rest of the world has already adopted this rule, and the U.S. should go ahead with it as planned, Bloomberg's editorial board writes. There may not be another financial crisis on the horizon, but this would keep it far away. What Epstein's Arrest Means for Trump Federal prosecutors today charged fund manager Jeffrey Epstein – who became quite wealthy in mysterious ways – with sex trafficking, including of underage girls, and conspiracy. These charges, to which Epstein pleaded not guilty, would seem to be a comeuppance for Epstein, who avoided similar charges in Florida a decade ago under a controversial plea deal. The author of that deal was Alex Acosta, who is now President Donald Trump's Labor Secretary and is suddenly in an uncomfortable spotlight. But this case is trouble for Trump at an even deeper level than that, writes Tim O'Brien. A lot of people on Epstein's contact list are sweating bullets, and one of those people is Trump, who once called Epstein "a lot of fun to be with." Telltale Charts Electric cars are getting cheaper much more quickly than expected, which will likely cause thousands more job losses in an auto sector that's already shedding workers, writes Lionel Laurent. Politicians have been too slow to adjust to this reality.  Believe it or not, the CAPE ratio still suggests stocks are at nosebleed valuations, writes John Authers.  India's in the middle of a water crisis, but you wouldn't know it from its water-guzzling agricultural exports, writes David Fickling, with a chart by Elaine He.  Further Reading The Justice Department's bizarre late-game substitution of its entire legal team in the census citizenship-question case suggests it's about to float a raft of stuff that would have embarrassed the previous team. – Noah Feldman The leaking of diplomatic memos trashing Trump show the U.K. government isn't a safe space for anyone who's not a die-hard Brexiteer. – Therese Raphael Any threat China poses to the U.S. can be handled by deft diplomacy, which America used to do.– Susan Thornton Syria is struggling to get oil from Iran, which means it may have to turn to Russia. – Julian Lee India's budget does nothing to prepare it for long-term success. – Mihir Sharma No, a giant space rock made of gold won't make us all richer. – Noah Smith You're doing retirement planning all wrong. – Barry Ritholtz ICYMI Amazon.com Inc. workers plan a Prime Day strike. How Netflix Inc. is trying to make "Stranger Things" the next big franchise. Russian sailors may or may not have averted a planetary catastrophe. Kickers FINALLY, an airport installs a slide to get you to your gate on time. (h/t Scott Kominers) Why being bored is good. Short bursts of exercise may prime the brain for learning. Which TV kid is most annoying? A bracket. Note: Please send bracket picks and complaints to Mark Gongloff at mgongloff1@bloomberg.net. New to Bloomberg Opinion Today? Sign up here and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. | |   |
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| 13 Years Since the Hezbollah-Israel War (Eisenkot | PolicyWatch 3150) Posted: 08 Jul 2019 12:46 PM PDT THIRTEEN YEARS SINCE THE HEZBOLLAH-ISRAEL WAR by Gadi Eisenkot PolicyWatch 3150
July 8, 2019 On the anniversary of the 2006 conflict, a former IDF chief of staff assesses current power dynamics, risks, and opportunities along Israel's northern borders. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
This March, Israel marked the seventieth anniversary of its ceasefire agreement with the state of Lebanon. On July 12, it will mark thirteen years since the outbreak of a war that began when Lebanese Hezbollah kidnapped two soldiers from Israeli territory and killed three others. Following thirty-three days of fighting, the balance of power on Israel’s northern border was irrevocably changed, while a penetrating discourse was stirred up regarding the government’s management of the conflict and the performance of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This PolicyWatch will assess the war’s strategic legacy through two lenses. First, it will examine how the hostilities and their aftermath have affected the military capabilities and strategic position of Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force in the context of their mission against Israel. Second, it will discuss Israel’s strategic achievements and challenges since the war, and how the country should proceed in light of them. THE POSTWAR BALANCE OF POWER Shortly after the war, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah candidly told an interviewer, “We did not think, even one percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude...If I had known on July 11...that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not.” Yet while the border has seen thirteen years of relative quiet and stability since then, the group has continued to expand its robust arsenal and develop what it views as three crucial power multipliers: - Precision capability for its missiles.
- A second front against Israel from Syria.
- An offensive plan to penetrate Israeli territory, both above ground and via tunnels.
The IDF has actively confronted these challenges in recent years, damaging the group’s capabilities and greatly hampering its plans. To counter the improving precision of Hezbollah rockets, the IDF has attacked missile production plants and stockpiles while taking open and covert action against weapons transfers from the group’s chief patron, Iran. And as Hezbollah and Tehran sought to establish a second front against Israel in the Golan Heights, the IDF struck deep along that frontier, establishing deconfliction mechanisms with Russian forces in Syria that allowed Israel to greatly reduce the capabilities of its enemies. Most recently, the IDF countered Hezbollah’s plans for underground incursions into Israel by launching Operation Northern Shield. NEUTRALIZING THE TUNNEL THREAT In late 2014, the first hints of a secret Qods Force/Hezbollah project came to light—a flagship plan for developing a massive system of underground attack tunnels. As part of a wider potential offensive, this network could have allowed thousands of troops to rise up from tunnels that stretched from inside Lebanon into Israeli communities, helping Iran and Hezbollah notch a strategic military achievement and advance their shared goal of harming and ultimately destroying the state of Israel. For years, the IDF labored to accurately assess the number and location of these tunnels using combined intelligence capabilities together with technological, operational, and combat engineering resources. The fruit of this labor was Operation Northern Shield, which started on December 4, 2018. When the operation ended on January 13, the tunnels were destroyed and the underground threat to Israel’s northern frontier was neutralized. Upon losing a tunnel system they had worked on for over a decade, the Qods Force and Hezbollah were clearly shocked—a reaction manifested in their denial of the project and their attempts to minimize the importance of a program that had been so central to their strategy. It is reasonable to assume that the exposure and destruction of this secret project has shown both groups the extent to which Israel has infiltrated their core secrets, likely strengthening Israeli deterrence in the eyes of Iranian and Hezbollah decisionmakers. HEZBOLLAH SINCE 2006 In the years following the Lebanon war, Hezbollah focused on rebuilding Beirut’s Shia district of Dahiya and the villages of south Lebanon, as well as bolstering its own military capabilities and processing the lessons learned during the conflict. By 2011, the turmoil in the Arab world and the deteriorating situation in Syria led Iran to demand that Hezbollah forces assist Bashar al-Assad’s regime and support Iranian proxies in other regional struggles. An active combat role in Syria helped the group acquire valuable field experience in deploying formations at the company and battalion level. The foreign interventions took a toll, however. After five years of fighting in Syria, some 2,000 Hezbollah operatives had been killed and 8,000 injured. Contrary to its past practice, the group resorted to using combatants as young as sixteen years of age, and many of these green recruits died in battle. In early 2018, Hezbollah began withdrawing forces from Syria, returning the majority of them home by year’s end. The group soon encountered internal divisions and severe economic problems that led it to sharply reduce the number of units it fielded, the social welfare programs it sponsored in Lebanon, and the wages it paid to personnel. Even so, the group’s cooperation with Iran, especially the Qods Force, has only deepened. Perhaps the best illustration of this merger came in 2016, when the commander of Hezbollah forces in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, was executed shortly after meeting with Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani at an Iranian base near Damascus. The decision appeared to reflect the wishes of both Soleimani and Nasrallah; since then, the organization has functioned without an independent military chief of its own. ISRAEL ACHIEVED MOST OF ITS STRATEGIC GOALS The central dilemma facing the Israeli security cabinet on the eve of the 2006 war was defining the campaign’s main target—was it the state of Lebanon, Hezbollah, or both? In the end, the IDF recommended six campaign goals, and the cabinet approved them: - Strengthening Israeli deterrence in the region.
- Halting terrorism from Lebanon’s sovereign territory.
- Forcing the Lebanese government to take responsibility for the south.
- Pressuring Hezbollah to return the kidnapped soldiers.
- Causing significant damage to Hezbollah and its military capabilities.
- Keeping Syria and the Palestinian territories out of the war.
Thirteen years later, it can be said that most of these goals were achieved. Israeli deterrence is still strong, as demonstrated by the years of relative quiet on Israel’s northern border. The Lebanese government and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have taken some responsibility for the south. More broadly, Hezbollah was dealt a forceful blow after years of Tehran casting the group as a model for extending Iranian hegemony in the Middle East. At the same time, Hezbollah has significantly increased its military strength despite the blow it suffered, even south of the Litani River—a space it was supposed to evacuate in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Beirut and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) have not fully established the sovereignty they are supposed to exert under that resolution, and the supervision exercised by UNIFIL is limited as well. On the political front, Hezbollah’s influence continues to grow within Lebanon. LOOKING AHEAD Even in the face of major IDF accomplishments during the war, the fact that Hezbollah was able to fire an estimated 4,000 rockets and missiles at northern communities sent shockwaves throughout Israeli society, raising difficult questions about the military’s level of preparedness. As outlined in a 2015 strategy document, this resulted in reorganization of the IDF and refocusing of intelligence resources, along with heightened readiness for future action against Hezbollah and protection of the home front. Today, Hezbollah is capable of launching missiles into Israel on an even larger scale than 2006. Yet Israel’s defensive and offensive capabilities against the group have greatly improved, and the IDF enjoys major intelligence, aerial, and ground superiority—enough to ensure victory in a future conflict and make Iran and Hezbollah pay a heavy price. Meanwhile, recent regional developments and heightened pressures on Iran have created an opportunity to roll back the Shia militia threat in the Middle East and bolster the state of Lebanon. In particular, Israel believes the following steps are crucial: - Strengthen existing international peacekeeping efforts. The expected extension of UNIFIL’s mandate this August, together with increased efforts toward operational enforcement of Resolution 1701 in south Lebanon, would improve regional stability and constrict Hezbollah’s influence. Accordingly, the UN should reinvigorate the mandate of its peacekeeping forces in Syria and Lebanon by increasing the number of troops, expanding their authority on the ground, and placing stricter enforcement requirements on them.
- Press the LAF and Beirut to take responsibility. Because Lebanon’s military depends on foreign aid, donor countries can condition their contributions on the LAF becoming more active on two fronts: intercepting weapons transferred through Syria and increasing operations in Hezbollah strongholds south of the Litani River. Concurrently, the international community should pressure the civilian government to boost its sovereignty in the south and take full responsibility for what happens there.
- Press Iran to withdraw. The growing international pressure on Tehran has created an opportunity to push the regime into removing its forces from Syria and its “advisors” from Lebanon. Increasing the U.S.-led effort against Iran would also weaken Hezbollah’s strategic position, in part by limiting how much the group and its patron can influence Lebanon.
- Monitor the Lebanon-Syria border. In the interests of regional stability, international players should closely monitor this frontier to prevent the transfer of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah. This task is especially relevant in light of last month’s trilateral summit in Jerusalem between the national security advisors of Israel, Russia, and the United States.
- Encourage Israeli-Lebanese engagement. The Israeli government should increase its efforts to promote shared interests with Beirut, such as drilling for gas in Lebanese waters and regulating land and maritime borders (with the exception of the contentious Shebaa Farms).
In short, the 2006 war yielded important strategic achievements for Israel, and as long as these achievements are maintained, stability on Israel’s northern border is likely. Moreover, the current situation facing Hezbollah, Iran, and the Qods Force may provide a strategic opportunity to further weaken their influence in Lebanon. Whatever the case, Israel must maintain its readiness and military superiority, both as deterrents to delay the next conflict and as instruments for decisive victory should conflict arise. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, a military fellow at The Washington Institute, retired from the IDF in January after serving as chief of the general staff.
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| U.S.-Qatar Talks Likely to be Crucial to Iran Policy (Henderson | Policy Alert) Posted: 08 Jul 2019 11:48 AM PDT U.S.-QATAR TALKS LIKELY TO BE CRUCIAL TO IRAN POLICY by Simon Henderson Policy Alert
July 8, 2019 The Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Emir Tamim could have many agenda items but the regional tension with Tehran will be foremost. READ THIS ITEM ON OUR WEBSITE
When Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani goes to the White House on July 9, it will likely be with a sense of triumph. The Qatari leader has survived more than two years of diplomatic and economic isolation by his immediate neighbors, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. And with its giant al-Udeid airbase, Qatar is now central to U.S. contingency planning for coping with the developing crisis caused by Iran's recent nuclear program violations and its attacks on oil tankers and pipelines. Meanwhile, President Trump, who initially endorsed the Gulf blockade on Qatar—deemed to be "a funder of terrorism, and at a very high level"—has since spoken warmly of Doha, thanking it for both its hospitality at al-Udeid and multi-billion purchases of American weapons. And Emir Tamim's rivals, the instigators of the blockade, appear to be avoiding Washington. Saudi crown prince Muhammad bin Salman remains embroiled in the controversy of the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and de facto Emirati leader, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi, earned a mention in the Mueller Report because of his Russian contacts. But the Qatari leader's visit will not be without its own awkwardness. Doha remains tolerant of hate-speech in mosque sermons, textbooks, and particularly the Arabic-language output of its al-Jazeera satellite broadcasting station. Furthermore, Doha's balancing act includes funding for Palestinians in Gaza, with prospective agreements in the fields of defense, energy, investment and air transport—an arrangement agreed with and facilitated by Israel. And as with other Gulf countries, there continue to be concerns about Qatar's actions on terrorist financing. Even if passed over in the White House, these subjects are sure to come up in the Qatari leader's meetings with members of Congress and other parts of the Administration. On Iran, Doha’s position is nuanced by the huge offshore gas field it shares with its neighbor across the Gulf. Tehran’s exploitation of its own portion has been delayed by the effect of sanctions while Qatar’s already established stream of revenues has transformed its economy and made it a player in international diplomacy, sport, and air travel. The aforementioned regional blockade has only increased the importance of maintaining overflight rights with Iran. Yet Qatar has also been a good U.S. ally, readily hosting the extra B-52 bombers and F-22 stealth fighters sent out to the region in recent weeks, while other states have been more cautious. Its defenses have also been reinforced by extra Patriot missiles. As part of a developing trend, Washington has worked to lessen Doha's isolation; the Qatari finance minister was at the economic workshop in Bahrain last month, which discussed development aid to the Palestinians. Riyadh has returned liaison officers to al-Udeid but the UAE is a hold-out on such compromises. The symbolism of the meeting is probably as much as can be expected. But assuming the usual access by the media scrum in the White House, it may also be an opportunity for President Trump to respond to the leaked assessments by the British ambassador Kim Darroch that his administration is "inept" and its Iran policy is "incoherent" and "chaotic." Governments across the world, as well as Tehran, will be hoping for some clarity. Simon Henderson is the Baker Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute.
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| BREAKING NEWS: Warren rakes in $19 million despite no fundraisers Posted: 08 Jul 2019 11:02 AM PDT Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign announced Monday she raised $19.1 million in the second quarter of the year, more than tripling her first-quarter total despite holding no fundraisers. The haul far exceeded expectations, as Warren surpassed both Bernie Sanders ($18 million) and Kamala Harris ($12 million) and came close to Joe Biden ($21.5 milllion). Her outpacing of Sanders is particularly notable, given the army of small-dollar donors he amassed in 2016 and their similarly progressive stances.
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