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Israeli forces step up attacks across Lebanon after ‘limited’ ground raids
The Israeli army says it has killed a commander of the Imam Hussein division, referring to a Hezbollah-linked group based in Syria, in a strike in Beirut as it stepped up attacks across Lebanon.
Israel also said on Tuesday that its forces killed Hezbollah commander Muhammad Jaafar Qasir, describing him as being responsible for weapons transfers from Iran and its affiliates to the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
The announcements came as Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for the assassinations of Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials. Israel promised a “painful response”, saying that more than 180 missiles were launched into Israel from Iran and Israeli air defences were activated to intercept them.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Iran had launched tens of missiles at Israel and that if Israel retaliated, Tehran’s response would be “more crushing and ruinous”. Tehran targeted three Israeli military bases in its attack, Iran’s state news agency said.
It comes a day after Israel said it sent ground troops into southern Lebanon in what it described as a “limited” operation against Hezbollah targets.
While Hezbollah denied that Israeli troops had entered Lebanon, the Israeli army announced it had also carried out dozens of ground raids into southern Lebanon going back nearly a year.
Israeli forces have continued to launch attacks on towns and villages across the border as well as on the densely-populated southern Beirut suburbs.
In an attack on Tuesday evening, Israeli air raids struck two areas in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighbourhood, hitting a building in Jnah near the Zahraa Hospital, and a building near the Kuwaiti embassy, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
Israel also warned Lebanese people to evacuate border towns as it conducted its ground operation.
Almost 240,000 people, mostly Syrians, have crossed to Syria since Israel began pounding the country last week, Lebanese authorities said.
A report from the country’s disaster management unit has registered “the crossing of 176,080 Syrian citizens and 63,373 Lebanese citizens into Syrian territory” from September 23.
‘My whole life changed in a second’
Iran had promised to retaliate following Israeli strikes that have killed many of the top leaders of its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, including the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Hamas, the Palestinian group in Gaza, praised the Iranian missile strikes, saying they avenged the Israeli assassinations of three leaders, including Nasrallah.
In Washington, President Joe Biden said the United States was prepared to help Israel defend itself from Iranian missile attacks.
Writing on X about a meeting held with Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House national security team earlier in the day, Biden said: “We discussed how the United States is prepared to help Israel defend against these attacks, and protect American personnel in the region.”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, condemned what he called “escalation after escalation”, saying: “This must stop. We absolutely need a ceasefire.”
A ground campaign into Lebanon for the first time in 18 years pitting Israeli soldiers against Hezbollah would be a major regional escalation.
Near the city of Sidon along the Mediterranean south of Beirut, mourners wept over coffins containing black-shrouded bodies of people killed in Israeli strikes.
“The building got struck down and I couldn’t protect my daughter or anyone else. Thank God, my son and I got out, but I lost my daughter and wife, I lost my home, I have become homeless. What do you want me to say? My whole life changed in a second,” said resident Abdulhamid Ramadan.
Hezbollah fighters responded to Israeli attacks by firing a barrage of rockets into Israel on Tuesday. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Hezbollah has been reeling from weeks of targeted strikes that killed its leadership. Israeli strikes have killed more than 1,000 people in Lebanon over the past two weeks, nearly a quarter of them women and children, according to the country’s Ministry of Public Health.
Anticipating more rocket attacks from Hezbollah, the Israeli army announced new restrictions on public gatherings and closed beaches in northern and central Israel. The military also said it was calling up thousands more reserve soldiers to serve on the northern border.
Earlier on Tuesday, an Israeli military official said Hezbollah had launched rockets at central Israel, setting off air raid sirens and wounding a man. Hezbollah said it fired salvos of a new kind of medium-range missile at the headquarters of two Israeli intelligence agencies near Tel Aviv.
The Israeli military official said Hezbollah had also launched projectiles at Israeli areas near the border, targeting soldiers.
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy said Israel, in its two major wars it fought previously inside Lebanon, “always started in a very limited way, very limited scale”.
“I’m very afraid that it will repeat itself now, and that [the situation in] Gaza will happen in Lebanon,” Levy told Al Jazeera. He said Israel is motivated by its recent military successes, such as the assassination of Nasrallah and the explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon.
“The world is totally passive, so Israel feels that it can go on,” Levy warned. “I think nothing is going to stop Israel from going on and this will cost the lives of many people.”
Trump’s last-ditch strategy to boost his support among young men
Young women don’t trust Donald Trump, so his campaign has doubled down — or maybe tripled down — on reaching out to young, mostly white men.
In recent weeks, Trump has met with right-wing creators such as Jake Paul and Andrew Schulz who have a lot of young male fans. He’s also latched onto issues that he thinks young men like, such as supporting cryptocurrency and vaping.
This is a microcosm of his strategy more broadly: to redouble his efforts on his base, of whom men comprise the majority.
Trump is either incapable or unwilling to expand his coalition.
Trump is either incapable or unwilling to expand his coalition, likely because his politics (and character) are simply too off-putting.
But it’s a precarious strategy considering the groups he’s targeting are already low-propensity voters — made even more precarious by the fact that he’s not exactly giving them a clear reason to turn out.
Trump issues a lot of unhinged warnings about a post-apocalyptic future if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election and offers somewhat confused support for niche (and scammy) issues like crypto.
But when you compare that with the very real motivator of abortion rights for young women, I’d venture to guess that Trump’s strategy has a low likelihood of success.
Brian Tyler Cohen is a political commentator, podcast host and MSNBC contributor. He hosts one of the biggest progressive channels on YouTube, with over 2 million subscribers.
14.5M of Joe Rogan’s Followers Become Donald Trump’s Key to Success Amid Kamala Harris’ Update on JRE
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris may sit down with popular podcaster Joe Rogan for an interview in the final stretch of the U.S. presidential campaign, as revealed by several sources. They claimed that Harris’ campaign officials met with Rogan’s team this week. However, her appearance has yet to be confirmed. But it seems like she isn’t the only one planning to mark her attendance on the show.
The former President of the United States, Donald Trump, too, is geared up to appear on the acclaimed podcast. In a recent appearance on the ‘Full Send Podcast’ with The NELK Boys, Trump confirmed that he would be a guest on the show. However, he also revealed that Rogan has yet to confirm the plans from his end. But would this be a good move for the Republican candidate? Well, it seems like Trump has received the thumb of approval from his Republican strategist.
On FOX’s ‘The Big Weekend Show‘, journalist, political commentator, and Republican strategist Lisa Boothe stated that Trump should definitely be a part of the podcast. Rogan, who runs America’s most popular podcast, has a highly coveted and devoted following that leans toward young people, men, and numbers in the tens of millions.
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So this surely would be an opportunity for Trump to use the new media to earn more supporters. She said, “First and foremost, Donald Trump should 100% go to Joe Rogan. 14.5 million followers who follow his podcast on Spotify. I think the Trump campaign has been smart about utilizing alternative means for media with broadcasters, as well as interviews on X, because it allows Americans to see Donald Trump for who he is.”
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It is worth noting that Trump and Rogan have clashed in the past. As recently as August, Trump took a shot at Rogan on the social media platform Truth Social, but later called him a “good guy.” In 2022, Rogan said he was not a Trump supporter, and in August, he said he preferred Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for president. Kennedy has since dropped out of the presidential race and has supported Trump. So it would be interesting to see what happens when the two meet again.
The importance of the Joe Rogan Experience in the upcoming elections
The interview will offer Harris a chance to make her case to her supporters as she works to shore up her support among male voters and men of African American descent in particular. Numerous public polls suggest that Republican candidate Donald Trump could fare better among young men of all races. The appearance could be a morale boost for Harris and Trump, as polls show an incredibly tight race between the two candidates that is expected to come down to results in seven swing states.
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In March, Spotify said “The Joe Rogan Experience” had 14.5 million followers, nearly triple the platform’s second-most popular show. She also has more than 19 million followers on Instagram and 17 million on YouTube. Rogan also struck a new deal with Spotify earlier this year, estimated to be worth $250 million. A testament to his popularity. A statistic that the candidates would love to capitalize on!
A YouGov poll last year found that 81% of its listeners are male and 56% are under 35, fueling the perception that it has a direct line to a cohort that polls show tends to support Trump over Harris. So what do you think? Will Harris be able to one-up Trump and earn the support of JRE fans? Let us know in the comments.
Trump Is Big Mad That Fox News Is Interviewing Harris
After the network announced that the vice president would sit down for an interview, Trump raged on social media
Republican presidential nomineeDonald Trump, increasingly prone to temper tantrums and outbursts of violent rhetoric as the election nears, railed against his former stomping grounds, Fox News, after the network announced that his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, had agreed to an interview.
While Trump himself has been ducking out of any opportunity to answe
r hard questions, including a second debate with Harris (he resoundingly lost the first one) and a 60 Minutes interview with CBS, he has spent much of his time and energy hyperfocused on fear-mongering about immigration, repeating his desire to be a “dictator,” and insulting Harris over the amount of media attention she has been getting. Harris, meanwhile, has taken numerous opportunities to speak on a variety of different platforms including interviews with radio host Howard Stern, 60 Minutes, the popular Call Her Daddy podcast hosted by Alex Cooper, and the upcoming Fox News interview with chief political anchor Bret Baier.
Trump raged against Harris, Baier, and the conservative network on social media Monday, and lamented, “Kamala Harris has wisely chosen Bret Baier, of FoxNews, to do a much needed interview, because he is considered to be ‘Fair & Balanced,’ though often very soft to those on the ‘cocktail circuit’ Left.” The former president accused Fox of becoming “so weak and soft on the Democrats, constantly polluting the airwaves with unopposed Kamala Representatives, that it all doesn’t matter anymore.”
Despite Trump’s bitter sentiments about the network, he appeared on Fox News on Sunday for an interview with Maria Bartiromo during which she gave him free rein to spout baseless lies and failed to follow up with him when Trump floated using military forces against U.S. citizens who oppose him on Election Day. Unsurprisingly, Trump praised the Fox host for doing a “beautiful job,” while berating “one-sided, negative Democrats” for calling out his fascist plan.
Harris is set to sit down with Baier on Fox News Wednesday in Pennsylvania during the host’s Special Report at 6 p.m. ET. This will be the Democratic presidential candidate’s first formal interview on the network.
Baier previously interviewed Trump in 2023, during which he asked the former president about his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the White House. During the televised sit-down, Trump essentially confessed to stealing and sharing top-secret government information post-presidency. Trump’s Fox appearance at the time came a week after he was arrested and arraigned on criminal charges in the federal probe over his hoarding of the classified material.
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