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** Good Evening,
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It's Monday, May 22nd.


** Trump in Jerusalem
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President Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall today as he began the second leg of his nine-day overseas trip. He and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel exchanged public statements earlier, with President Trump calling on Israel to work with its Arab neighbors to solve the Palestinian issue. Peter Baker and Ian Fisher have the story in today’s
New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/world/middleeast/trump-israel-visit.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) . The president travels to the West Bank tomorrow to meet with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority.

Dive Deeper: The Jerusalem Post has a minute by minute account of today’s visit (http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/WATCH-LIVE-Trump-arrives-in-Israel-for-first-time-as-president-492501?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

Anthony Cordesman reviews the president’s Saudi Arabia visit in an op-ed published in the Hill (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/334488-trump-gets-it-right-in-saudi-arabia?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .


** Medium-Range Doubts
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North Korea says it can now mass produce an intermediate-range ballistic missile, as all technical requirements have now been met. U.S. officials are skeptical, saying the Pukguksong-2 missile has yet to be tested enough and the fuel system is unreliable. Ju-min Park and Phil Stewart of Reuters have the full story (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN18H12S?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Learn more about North Korea’s missile and others in its arsenal at missilethreat.csis.org (https://missilethreat.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) , a website run by the CSIS Missile Defense Project.

The Washington Post takes a graphic-rich (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/north-korea-targets/?utm_term=.d078f8444cc1&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) look at what targets North Korea’s missiles could be aiming for.


** Rouhani Returned
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Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, was reelected on Friday, beating challenger and hardliner Ebrahim Raisi by a wide margin, as the
Guardian’s Emma Graham-Harrison and Saeed Kamali Dehghan report from Iran (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/20/iran-hassan-rouhani-set-for-landslide-in-huge-victory-for-reformists?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) . Rouhani was given another boost when his reformist group Omid won all 21 seats on the Tehran city council, ousting conservatives from power, as the BBC reports (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39992416?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Kathleen Hicks and Melissa Dalton lead an all-star group of experts as they lay out a strategy to deter Iran and incentivize cooperation in this report (https://www.csis.org/analysis/deterring-iran-after-nuclear-deal?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) published in March.


** In That Number
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** $7.6 billion
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The amount that Trump’s budget adds to DoD’s Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) accounts compared to what the Obama administration planned for FY 2018. Source: CSIS’s Todd Harrison authored a new commentary based on a leaked budget document, “What to Expect in the FY 2018 Defense Budget (https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-expect-fy-2018-defense-budget?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .”


** Critical Quote
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** “This speech is the right beginning—in remarkably well-crafted terms—and it deserves bipartisan and expert respect.”
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—CSIS’s Anthony H. Cordesman authored a new opinion piece in the Hill, “Trump gets it right in Saudi Arabia (http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/334488-trump-gets-it-right-in-saudi-arabia?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .”


** iDeas Lab
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A new feature from Beyond Parallel analyzes the volume of North Korean provocations around South Korean election years (http://beyondparallel.csis.org/rok-elections-and-dprk-provocations/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) , with a significant rise in provocations between 1966-1969 and 2012-2017.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.


** Optics
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(Photo credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.)
President Donald Trump visited the Western Wall today—the first such visit ever made by a sitting U.S. president.


** Recommended Reading
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"James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/james-mattis-a-warrior-in-washington?mbid=nl_170522_Daily&CNDID=33849010&spMailingID=11084212&spUserID=MTMzMTgzNzQzMTI3S0&spJobID=1161908022&spReportId=MTE2MTkwODAyMgS2&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) " by the
New Yorker’s Dexter Filkins.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS’s International Security Program at 9:00 a.m. for a full-day conference on the state of U.S. civil-military relations (https://www.csis.org/events/command-climate-state-us-civil-military-relations?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

Join the CSIS Energy and National Security Program at 10:00 a.m. for a discussion on the current issues facing global oil and gas markets (https://www.csis.org/events/balance-oil-imbalance-lng?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

Join CSIS’s International Security Program at 4:30 p.m. for a debate on the Trump administration’s nuclear challenges and policy decisions in 2017 (https://www.csis.org/events/debate-modernization-nuclear-missiles?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .

And join GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs at 10:30 a.m. for “Taiwan’s ‘New Southbound Policy’ and Prospects for International Space (https://elliott.gwu.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D123490003&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .”


** On Demand
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In March, CSIS hosted “Deterring Iran After the Nuclear Deal: Report Launch and Panel Discussion.” You can watch the event on demand here (https://www.csis.org/events/deterring-iran-after-nuclear-deal-report-launch-and-panel-discussion?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) or read the report here (https://www.csis.org/analysis/deterring-iran-after-nuclear-deal?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .


** Sounds
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“Of Stories from the Front” from CSIS’s Russian Roulette follows the experiences of a journalist covering the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.

You can listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/russian-roulette/id1112258664?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/of-stories-from-the-front?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .


** Smiles
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At its core, Rock and Roll is a deeply American music that reflects our collective national imagination. In the late 1960s, John Fogerty and Credence Clearwater Revival drew from the vibe of the American South even though they weren't natives of the region. Somehow, Credence tapped the source of the South's powerful aesthetic. And subsequently, multiple generations of American rock aficionados have been transported to the Bayou mentally if not physically (https://youtu.be/pAVhKjsImeI?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dbcdb3a42-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dbcdb3a42-145367789) .
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