Archive for the ‘Op Eds & Articles’ Category

The Riots in Bahrain: Not Another Domino Stone

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 […]

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Hints for Asset Hunters

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 […]

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Egypt’s Power Transition: Changing Rooms On the Titanic? Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in the Huffington Post

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 […]

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How Julian Assange Helped America – Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in The Huffington Post

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 […]

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Hezbollah and Iran: the New Masters of Lebanon? Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in the Huffington Post

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 […]

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A Cyberwar Against Iran: Whodunit? Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in the Huffington Post

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 […]

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“Age: 66, Jobs: 2, Plan to Quit/Retire? Never” Article by Haggai Carmon in The Huffington Post

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, […]

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Iranian Scientist Shahram Amiri Answers Some Questions, Raising Others: Op Ed by Haggai Carmon in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post Op Ed 7 20 10 I don’t purport to suggest that Shahram Amiri or the Iranian intelligence services read my July 13 Op Ed (in which I posed ten questions following Amiri’s public surfacing in the U.S.) and then rushed to respond. That said, Amiri’s July 15 appearance on the Islamic Republic […]

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One Dead Israeli Spy, Two Theories of Double Loyalty, Three Explanations of How He Died, Four Suspects: Too Many Unanswered Questions — Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post Op Ed 7 14 10 In June 2007 Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian businessman, fell to his death from the balcony of his London apartment. Did he fall, jump or get a push? These questions have lingered for the past three years and remain unanswered. If he was murdered, then his death could […]

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Ten Questions Regarding the Case of the Missing Iranian Scientist: Op Ed by Haggai Carmon published in The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post Op Ed 7 13 10 Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist, went missing in May 2009 during a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Other than the fact that Amiri subsequently resurfaced in the U.S., almost everything else in the espionage-thriller style case is disputed publicly. The barrage of information offered during the past […]

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