Huffington Post Op Ed 06/14/11 Why is the UN Security Council unwilling to condemn Syria? President Bashar al-Assad is butchering his own rebellious citizens and other than public expressions reproaching the massacre in Syria, the world does nothing. Why? Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was bombed by NATO for similar atrocities, then why the preferential treatment […]

Huffington Post OpEd 5/13/2011 The Iranian meddling in Bahrain was temporarily to be put to a hold. However, the prey, albeit small in acreage, is too lucrative to be let go, and Iranian clandestine intervention continues. Bahrain, a small island kingdom in the Gulf, is coveted by Iran, its neighbor across the bay, as it […]

Huffington Post OpEd 3/1/2011 “Quo vadis?” (where are you going? in Latin) asked St. Peter fleeing from certain crucifixion in Rome, when he met Jesus. According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, Jesus answered, “Eo Romam iterum crucifigi, (I am going to Rome to be crucified again.” ) Is it time to ask, Quo vadis […]

Huffington Post Op Ed 2/21/2011 Many have misread the recent eruption of riots in the streets of Manama, capital of the tiny, oil-rich Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain. The government of Bahrain points an accusing finger at Iran. They say that the riots in Bahrain resulted from a well-planned sinister master plan of Iran […]

Haaretz Op Ed 02/25/2011 The Swiss government’s decision, on February 12, to freeze Hosni Mubarak’s assets in Swiss banks will probably cause sleepless nights to other Middle Eastern rulers who liked to keep themselves in the sun and their assets in the dark. (Cynics will wonder what the Swiss government suddenly discovered that it didn’t […]

Huffington Post Op Ed 02 10 2011 When President Mubarak of Egypt was still clinging to power, many had already started writing his political eulogy. First and foremost was President Obama. By talking to the protesting people of Egypt in support of their cause, Obama may have doomed Mubarak’s political future. When the world is […]

Huffington Post Op Ed 12 06 2010 Balaam is described in the Bible (Numbers 22-24) as an “evil man.” He was asked to curse God’s people but instead, on three occasions, he produced blessings, not curses. As a result, the expression “Came to curse but ended up blessing” is attributed to people who mean to […]

The Huffington Post Op Ed 11 04 2010 This is no longer a smoke screen or a typical Iranian ploy or even a merchant’s negotiation tactic. Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese power house, has made it clear: Lebanon could soon become an Iranian front basis, a thousand miles closer to Europe and a stone’s throw from Israel’s […]

The Huffington Post Op Ed 10 12 2010 The Iranians are frantically looking for those responsible for infecting their nuclear and industrial facilities with Stuxnet, an extremely sophisticated and dangerous viral computer malworm. The Iranians should also worry what could come next in this cyber war. Their country’s electrical system may fail. Valves and spigots […]

The Huffington Post 9 21 2010 Nobody has ever told me not to quit my day job. In fact, I was expecting some of my friends who didn’t run away fast enough, to suggest just that after I pinned them down with politically incorrect questions: “Have you read my thrillers yet?” The odd reality is, […]