Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center in Washington D.C.

Her books, available on Amazon, include:

Kidnap lesson: Terrorists must never control territory

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On June 30, the Embassy of Israel announced: “With great sadness we must announce the bodies of Eyal, Gilad and Naftali have been found near Hebron. Our thoughts are with their families.” Their tragic end wasn’t inevitable, but almost so. Hamas kidnapped three Israeli teenagers returning from school to […]

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Hamas threats against Israel should be taken seriously

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes it is braggadocio. Sometimes it is the last rhetorical shot before making a political change previously thought impossible.  But sometimes, just sometimes, it is truth as the teller sees it. Hamas released a video for Israel’s 66th anniversary, entitled “No Hope,” (a play on Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva,

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Israel’s enemies deny, lie about, or exploit the Shoah

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. -For Palestinians, suffering — and sympathy for suffering — is a zero-sum game. Sympathy used up on the Holocaust means less for Palestinians in the territories. Even among Palestinian groups, while thousands suffer and die in Syria — most heinously starved in the Yarmouk refugee camp — Israelis joined relief

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Jewish History, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Hubris is reason for U.S. foreign policy failures

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is tempting to simply list all the ways the Obama administration — particularly Secretaries Kerry and Hagel — has been wrong on foreign and defense policy. After all, Russia/Ukraine, Syria, Iran, China, and Israel/Palestinians are nothing to sneeze at. But finding a common thread among the mistakes might

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Time for U.S. to deploy E. Europe missile defenses

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –In response to mounting unhappiness in the West with Russia’s acquisition of Crimea and plans to split Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has struck again. The Russian Defense Ministry released a statement over the weekend saying, “The unfounded threats… are seen by us as an unfriendly gesture,” raising the possibility of “new

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International, Shoshana Bryen, USA