Eric Lieberman

Managing editor at the Daily Caller. Formerly, tech reporter for TheDCNF. Ketchup on hot dogs is a sin. Music by Jim Lang

[AG @AGHamilton29]

In the last few months, PIJ and Hamas have been releasing obituaries on commanders killed during the war. Interesting to look back how those deaths were covered.

Ex:

In June 2024, Reuters reported on an air strike killing Palestinian soccer player Ahmed Abu Al-Atta. Now PIJ confirms he was a deputy platoon commander in the rocket unit.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

Hamas is finally releasing death notices for commanders killed during the war.

As has happened with both the PIJ and Hezbollah notices, they are finally admitting a lot of the people listed as journalists and included in widely cited lists were active terrorists.

[Reagan Reese @reaganreese_]

I flew on Air Force One. I'm here to talk about the food.

I’m not a foodie. I don’t have a go-to restaurant critic or strong opinions about tasting menus.

But what I do have is a genuine, almost embarrassing enthusiasm for the meals served aboard AF1.

My food review as a 🧵 1/7:

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

I genuinely feel bad for DNC Chair Ken Martin.

The autopsy almost certainly says something to the effect of: Democrats lost in 2024 due to a combination of economic dissatisfaction, incumbent fatigue, Kamala’s unpopularity, concerns over crime and immigration, and overreach on cultural issues like trans, DEI, and other woke crap—reflecting what is now conventional wisdom.

So Martin puts the kibosh on its release, because he knows many of the bigwigs in his own coalition—like the Pod Save America Bros—aren’t willing to contend with those realities. They insist upon telling themselves stories about how if Kamala had just been a little bit more pro-Hamas and hostile to Israel, she would’ve beaten Trump.

This is, of course, absurd.

Very few Americans cast their ballot based on Israel or Gaza or Iran or any of that stuff. And to the extent foreign policy played any role in the last presidential election’s outcome, it’s likely that voters doubted Harris‘s abilities to keep Americans safe following the Biden administration’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. There were no foreign policy incidents even remotely as calamitous as that during Trump‘s first term.

Beyond all that, it’s worth noting that Jill Stein—the Green Party’s protest vote option for Palestine-obsessed, self-loathing Americans—also racked up markedly fewer votes in 2024 than she managed to collect in 2016.

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

Texas just passed California in utility-scale solar. And it's not close in wind or energy storage.

[Axios @axios]

Assaults against U.S. Jews reach 46-year high https://t.co/aq3aWkc9K6

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

"...the SPLC chose to publish the names, faces, and affiliations of 15 people it accused of 'anti-Muslim extremism.' The list endangered everyone it named. I know the threat of Islamist violence all too well. In 2004, a jihadist named Mohammed Bouyeri murdered my friend and collaborator Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street. Bouyeri shot him, cut his throat, and pinned a five-page letter to his chest with a knife. The letter was a fatwa against me. I have lived under armed protection for more than two decades because men with weapons and conviction want me dead—for apostasy...

The SPLC considers all of this beyond the pale, and accused me of using 'the political bully pulpit to bash Muslims."

And

"Tax filings uncovered by reporters in 2017 showed millions in SPLC money parked in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. Think of it for a moment: an anti-poverty organization, headquartered in Alabama, hiding millions offshore while positioning itself as the nation’s moral conscience."

https://t.co/DLz4NA3PGc

[Aimen Dean @AimenDean]

I genuinely don’t know whether to laugh or lose my mind anymore at this European hypocritical double standards.

When it comes to Vladimir Putin, suddenly it’s Churchillian resolve. No compromise. No dialogue. Arm Ukraine to the teeth, sanction everything that moves, wreck your own energy security if necessary - because tyranny must be confronted.

Fine. I actually respect the consistency of that … in isolation.

But then you turn around and lecture us - us - the Gulf monarchies, Jordan and Israel, about showing restraint with Tehran? About dialogue? About coexistence?

Are you serious?

For forty years - forty bloody years - this regime has been waging a shadow war across the region. Militias, proxies, sleeper cells, terror networks, destabilizing entire countries - Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen - and threatening the Gulf monarchies, Jordan, and Israel nonstop.

This isn’t theoretical. This isn’t abstract. This is lived reality.

And yet here come Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, and the rest of the European choir, gently advising us to calm down, de-escalate, and - what was it again? - “give diplomacy a chance.”

Diplomacy with who, exactly? With a system that has built its entire regional strategy on plausible deniability and proxy terror violence?

You were willing to absorb inflation, energy shocks, and political backlash at home to confront Moscow. You made that choice. You said: this is the price of standing up to a tyrant.

So don’t come here and tell us - after decades of being on the receiving end - that we should just sit down, smile politely, and “coexist.”

Either you believe in confronting tyranny everywhere .. or you don’t.

Macron, Starmer, rest of EU leaders and top bureaucrats should just STFU and spare us the self righteous sanctimonious lectures!🤐🤫

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY to BBC: We went through difficult relations with Iran. We did nothing to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers and crew, didn’t admit it, and didn’t let experts in.

Then the full-scale war started. They handed Shahed drones to Russians to kill our civilians. I asked them to stop. They promised there would be only one batch. They lied and kept supplying weapons.

That’s why I consider them accomplices of Russia.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Capitalism creates prosperity

[Eric Lieberman @_EricLieberman_]

@WellsJorda89710 https://t.co/Rof3LykohP

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Iranian influencer Parmida Hoseinpour reacts to the news that Ali Larijani, the de facto leader of the Islamic Republic, and Gholamreza Soleimani, the leader of its largest repressive force, have been killed by Israel.

She says…

“For three months, we were sharing the names of our dead.

Now your names are coming out.

Burn.”

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

Last night a synagogue in Rotterdam was set on fire in an arson attack.

This morning there was an explosion in a Jewish school in Amsterdam.

It is just endless. This is a global pandemic.

[Farokh @farokh]

Let me ask you a question…

Imagine there is no war in Iran right now, life is going on as is, nothing at all.

The women’s Iranian football (soccer) players are in Australia for a tournament.

The national anthem comes on and they refuse to sing it as a sign of protest against the country for what they’re doing to women over there.

They then get threatened by politicians and national television. Some of their family members get taken into custody, and they get told that if they don’t return to the country, something bad will happen to them.

That’s exactly what just happened to the Iranian women’s team. They were barricaded into a hotel in Australia by IRGC members in the ground, five of them ran away through the hotel’s garage while the rest begged for help.

The world watched, human rights and feminist organizations around the world were silent.

Do you think it’s okay?
Is that a free country to you?
Is the Islamic Regime worth defending?

[Jérémy Benhaïm @JeremBenhaim]

La présidente de la région de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, à l’extrême gauche :

« Je vous encourage à aller à Téhéran seul et ivre, ou à Kaboul en minijupe, et à emmener vos amis gays avec vous ; voyons combien de temps il leur faudra pour vous pendre à une grue. »

C’est exactement des personnes comme elle qui devraient diriger l’Espagne au lieu de Pedro Sànchez, qui est une véritable honte pour le pays.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning.

“Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.”

[Dennis @AdoptEarlyTech]

@FrankLuntz Imagine that someone attacks your house and you respond by shooting at all your neighbors. This is not a sane regime, it is one that ruled by fear.

[Geezus Man @GeezusMan]

@FrankLuntz Iran be like

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Over the past 36 hours, Iran has attacked more Arab and Muslim countries than Israel has in its entire history.

And most of these countries aren't even involved in the conflict.

The Iranian regime launched 460+ missiles and 350+ drones at 11 countries across the Middle East:

1. Israel 🇮🇱
2. Jordan 🇯🇴
3. Kuwait 🇰🇼
4. Oman 🇴🇲
5. Bahrain 🇧🇭
6. Qatar 🇶🇦
7. UAE 🇦🇪
8. Iraq 🇮🇶
9. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
10. Cyprus 🇨🇾
11. Syria 🇸🇾