Huffington Post Op Eds 10/23/2011 Last week President Obama announced that all US troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year. That would formally end more than eight years of combat that cost the U.S more than 4,400 lives, more than 33,000 injured servicemen and servicewomen, and up to one trillion dollars in […]

Huffington Post Op Eds 11/01/2011 Ekaterina “Katia” Zatuliveter insists that she is not a Russian spy operating in the UK. Russia also insists that she was not their spy. MI5, the British internal intelligence service insists that she was working for Russian intelligence and wants her deported from the UK. Zatuliveter is currently fighting in […]

Huffington Post Op Eds 09/06/2011 One day before the publication of the UN report on the Israeli-Turkish conflict, Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister has issued a 24 hour ultimatum to Israel to “apologize, or else…” The Turkish foreign minister has demanded Israel’s contrition for the May 2010 raid on the MV Mavi Marmara, a Turkish […]

Huffington Post Op Eds 09/09/2011 Turkey is at it again behaving like the schoolyard bully. This time, Turkey’s target is not Israel but the Republic of Cyprus. In an interview to Zaman, a Turkish newspaper, Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bağış has threatened that if the Republic of Cyprus enters claimed Turkish terrestrial waters during their […]

Those who wondered why the U.S and its European allies limit their reaction to the Syrian massacre of its citizens to lip service only should listen to the Russian offered explanation. The Russians believe that the message NATO and the U.S are sending Syria and ultimately Iran is, “we are coming soon to attack you.” […]

Huffington Post op Ed 10/24/2011 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s brutal death has been confirmed, but the fear is that it doesn’t mark the end of hostilities in Libya, but the beginning of an equally brutal civil war. You might think that there have been only two major players in Libya’s power struggle: Gaddafi’s government and the […]

Huffington Post OpEds 10/24/2011 Last week President Obama announced that all US troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year. That would formally end more than eight years of combat that cost the U.S more than 4,400 lives, more than 33,000 injured servicemen and servicewomen, and up to one trillion dollars in direct […]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/haggai-carmon/durban-review-conference-Huffington Post Op Ed 083111 Durban III, a UN conference charged with finding the real root of racism, is scheduled to commence on September 21, 2011, in New York. The Durban Conferences are the natural, albeit indirect extension of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The two previous Durban conferences became a platform for political hatred […]

Come September, the UN General Assembly will consider the Palestinian Authority’s request to be admitted as a member. Historically, the UN has played a major role in the Palestinian refugees’ problem; it could now bring to its resolution. Fact: According to the UN, there are five million Palestinians, mostly members of the third, fourth and […]

Huffington Post Op Ed 6/22/11 Dominique Strauss-Kahn (“DSK”) is accused of sexual attack on a hotel chambermaid. But will his status as the IMF head allow him to wriggle out from under criminal prosecution in New York by claiming immunity? Theoretically, DSK would have two available types of immunities: status-based immunity and conduct-based immunity. These […]