David Daoud

"I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." - Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders military to escalate offensive in Lebanon to "crush" Hezbollah. u.afp.com/SD4g

US official on Lebanon, Israel and Hezbollah: • Hezbollah has ignored repeated requests to stop firing at Israel, including a recent ultimatum • Israel will never be expected to passively absorb attacks on its forces and civilians. This is not the Biden administration • Since April 17, Hezbollah has fired over 1,000 drones and over 700 rockets to try and derail ongoing talks between Lebanon and Israel • The status quo is untenable • Hezbollah is entirely responsible for the current situation. It broke the ceasefire on March 2 and is now intent on denying the Lebanese people a path to peace and reconstruction • The idea that the Lebanese government is negotiating directly with Israel and stands to get significant support from the US, all while Hezbollah is having their narrative of resistance challenged, is an existential threat to Hezbollah • A successful ceasefire led by the Government of Lebanon would strip Hezbollah of their power and their narrative

🚨בכיר אמריקני רמז הערב כי ממשל טראמפ יתמוך בהסלמת הפעולות של ישראל נגד חיזבאללה 🚨הבכיר האמריקני אמר לי: ״חיזבאללה התעלם מבקשות חוזרות ונשנות להפסיק לירות לעבר ישראל, כולל אולטימטום שהועבר לאחרונה. ישראל לעולם לא תידרש לספוג באופן פסיבי מתקפות על כוחותיה ואזרחיה. זה לא ממשל ביידן״ 🚨הבכיר האמריקני ציין כי מאז 17 באפריל, חיזבאללה שיגר יותר מאלף כטב"מים ויותר מ-700 רקטות בניסיון לחבל במשא ומתן המתמשך בין לבנון לישראל. ״הסטטוס קוו אינו בר-קיימא״, אמר לי הבכיר האמריקני 🚨הבכיר האמריקני הוסיף: ״חיזבאללה אחראי באופן מלא למצב הנוכחי. הוא הפר את הפסקת האש ב-2 במרץ וכעת נחוש למנוע מהעם הלבנוני מסלול לשלום ולשיקום״. 🚨לדברי הבכיר האמריקני חיזבאללה חושש מהמו״מ שממשלת לבנון מנהלת עם ישראל בתמיכת ארה״ב. ״זה מהווה איום קיומי עבור חיזבאללה״, אמר הבכיר האמריקני 🚨הבכיר האמריקני הוסיף: ״הפסקת אש מוצלחת בהובלת ממשלת לבנון תשלול מחיזבאללה את כוחו ואת הנרטיב שלו״

Northern Israeli Leaders Warn U.S.-Iran Deal Would Be 'Death Blow' if Hezbollah Remains Intact - Israel Security haaretz.com/israel-news/is…

Not great.

Humiliating.

Peace!

Exclusive: What's inside the Iran deal Trump is close to signing axios.com/2026/05/24/ira…

.@AlexCrawfordSky doesn’t seem to know anything about Lebanon or Hezbollah.

"I am against war" claims Hizbullah's Hussein al-Hajj Hassan to Sky News' @AlexCrawfordSky. Of course, anyone who knows anything about Lebanon knows it was Hizbullah that unilaterally chose to initiate hostilities on 8 October 2023.

And the institutions take into account Hezbollah’s positions. Because they must.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu’s minister of national security, has fulfilled the nightmares of Israel’s liberals—and the fantasies of its enemies, Avi Issacharoff argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/…

Very interesting. We have not heard much about attempts by Hezbollah to infiltrate the border since fighting renewed. There have been ground attacks against IDF posts during the period of fighting after 10/7/23. Hezbollah, Hamas & PIJ attacked the border multiple times.

לא רק יירוט: הפיתרון הישראלי שישתק את רחפני הנפץ | פרסום ראשון maariv.co.il/news/military/…

@manda_lani How lucky for him that the shrieking, keffiye-clad hordes recognized that he isn't a Swede.

@DavidADaoud As far as I remember, there was a whole discussion around him in this context. And they did find explanations for why it was okay for him to be a white Middle Eastern.

The “white ones” — my mother is whiter than a sheet of 8x11 printing paper, blonde hair, green eyes. Her paternal side were in the area now called Lebanon for millennia, her maternal side can say the same about Iraq. In short, your race science is stupid, Araquel. Both Sephardic Jews and the “white ones” know where we come from more than you ever could. Hope that helps.

@AraquelBloss Is that retort supposed to demonstrate you have functional and firing brain synapses? Because it only underscores your intellectual shallowness and ignorance. You cannot engage on a factual level, so you default to sloganeering. I truly pity people like you.

@DavidADaoud Who are the “white ones” it’s almost like you know which colonizers I’m talking about. 🤣😂

דרמה בגבול הצפון: מחבלי חיזבאללה חוסלו בדרך לפשיטה על יישובים maariv.co.il/news/military/…

@manda_lani I also wonder how these brain-dead ignoramuses that speak in these "white-brown" binaries about Israel handle a man like Lebanese FM Youssef Raggi. Would they shriek at him to "go back to Poland" too?

@DavidADaoud Regardless of American racial science, what makes me laugh the most is that she doesn't understand or ignores that the Mizrahim and Sephardim in Israel are the right-wing and nationalists. Those who don't believe in handing over territories.

The house of the Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri brother was targeted today in a strike . This came the same day the Us imposed sanctions on officials from Amal Movement..