Michael Edelstein

Been thinking about it for a while but it's time; I will no longer use Twitter for #publichealth #epidemiology #vaccines or #science. All I see on my feed nowadays is hate, extremism and antisemitism. Moving to @LinkedIn -follow me there! : linkedin.com/in/edelsteinmi…

@ebi_karimi The war was never between the israeli and iranian people

If the three countries are at war, the men of science are not. Ady Arie (Israel), Bob Boyd (USA), and Ebrahim Karimi (Iran)

@Osint613 If you have to try 79 times is still a true promise?

IRGC: Launch of the 79th wave of Operation “True Promise 4.”

This is actually quite funny

@LittleMoiz די פשוט- אין להם מיקרוצ׳יפ מהחיסונים

לא יודע כבר מה להגיד… יש להם איזה דיל עם מוג׳תבא חמינאי בטוח…

@somalilandmfa @SldiasporaGN What are the best places to visit in Somaliland as a tourist? Looking forward to visiting in the next few years once there are flights from tel aviv to hargeisa!

Following a recent visit to the Netherlands, the Director of the Diaspora Department @SldiasporaGN highlighted Somaliland’s strong potential particularly in tourism, culture, and investment.

@DrNeilStone There is a whole generation of politicians and advocates that haven’t realized it is not the 1960s anymore and a whole generation of the illiberal left using them to pursue their agenda

This may lose me followers but I really dislike Bernie Sanders

@realhzakaria @LadyLevnon Looks good although i like my arak straight nowadays

Maronite food. Raw meat and arak. Bon appétit.

@MustafaBarghou1 @keithmartinmd All gatherings are forbidden because of tue war- western wall is also closed- it’s not collective punishment its protection

Statement: Israeli authorities have kept Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem closed to Palestinian worshippers for the twelfth consecutive day during the final days of Ramadan, an act that amounts to collective punishment and represents the most severe restriction imposed on the holy site ever and since the beginning of the Israeli military occupation in 1967.

@Frances_Coppola @almmura When hezbollah joined the war in 2024- northern israel was evacuated. They went to hotels (for free), friends, Relatives. The question is why do these lebanese have nowhere to go? Because no one wants to touch anyone remotely sympathetic to hizbulla- the lebanese had enough.

If three-quarters of a million Israeli civilians had been driven out of their homes by Lebanon's army and left with nowhere to go, this would be headline news in every Western media outlet. But when the Israeli army does this to Lebanese civilians? Crickets.

@zriboua I love the depth and breadth of your analyses- when are you doing a speaking tour in Israel?

My latest: The Iran Question Is All About China Why Operation Epic Fury Is the Opening Act of the Indo-Pacific Century The Iran question was never about Iran. Remove the Islamic Republic from the equation and China loses its pawns for a Taiwan contingency. Leave it in place and the Middle East remains what Beijing designed it to be: a second front that Washington can never afford to leave and can never afford to stay in. Trump's strikes are the first move by an American president who appears to understand that the road to the Pacific runs through Tehran. zinebriboua.com/p/the-iran-que…

@lampos We in Israel care very much about iran’s nuclear weapons ajd the fact that Iran started lobbing balistic missiles at us a year ago while continuously threatening to erase us from the map, installing a clock on a central square in tehran with a countdown to our destruction…

It’s crystal clear that the USA wants to control Iran’s resources. They don’t care about human rights, nuclear weapons or its people. They joined forces with (another) war criminal to achieve their goals of “death and destruction”, and economic dominance through exploitation.

By the way if you've noticed far less Gaza propaganda in your feed it's not because Iran knocked Gaza off the front page. It's because Iran is what kept it there. Now that their cyber command has been smashed, so too has a global propaganda exercise.

@arash_tehran I want to live in a world where the communist party of Israel and the communist party of Iran can freely put out irrelevant joint statements based on an ideology that failed miserably half a century ago. I’d even love to see a joint conference in Tel Aviv or Tehran. Dead serious

What internationalism looks like

מונולוג סיום חזק של ארץ נהדרת שממליץ לכל אחד לראות ולשנן @yanivbiton99

@IhabHassane You are only just discovering that the so-called defenders of Palestine actually never cared about Palestinians? Welcome to the real world.

So many of those who loudly condemned the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israel’s indiscriminate bombs now seem perfectly comfortable with the indiscriminate killing of civilians by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Civilian lives are not selective. If killing civilians is wrong, it is wrong—no matter who does it, no matter the flag, no matter the excuse. Moral principles do not change depending on who launches the missiles.

My op-Ed in Jerusalem Post Iran attacked the UAE because it cannot defeat its model. The ghosts of the old Middle East are departing, one funeral at a time. jpost.com/opinion/articl…

@RonaiChaker Looks stunning! Mountains are a happy place for me. I hope to visit (safely) from Israel one day

Back in school, whenever people found out that I was Kurdish, the atmosphere would change. At the time, I didn’t openly say that I had a Yazidi background because I was afraid of harassment. Instead, they mocked me. They called us “mountain people,” “hillbillies,” as if it were something shameful. What they didn’t know is that I am proud to be a child of the mountains. My heart belongs to the mountains. When I was in the mountains in Austria, I cried because I knew I would have to return to the flatlands. The mountains — no matter where they are — are a part of me.

What we are seeing is NOT "the disintegration of the international rules-based order", but a long overdue correction to make current rule-based order more compatible with our commonsensical, morality-based order; the former should serve the latter, not the other way around. @KMooreGilbert @havivrettiggur

The Iran-Israel war is the only conflict i know where the majority of the public on both sides want the same side to win- and the only Ones who want the other side to win are people with no skin in tue game and 0 real life understanding of the realities of the Middle East

@ShahakShapira 8??? good luck- if you don't make it we enjoyed your jokes

2 am in TLV, now stuck in a new shelter with 8 French people. I will never forgive Trump and Netanyahu for this.