Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

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

Her books, available on Amazon, include:

Why wait for Afghan withdrawal if it’s coming anyway?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Taliban carefully scripted the kerfluffle to embarrass the United States. Its not like we didn’t know they were in Qatar. For eighteen months, Doha has been the scene of sometimes secret, sometimes leaked U.S. talks with the Taliban — and without the Afghan government. But this week, Taliban

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U.S. leak of Israeli missile site was deliberate

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, June 5,  it was revealed that that the current US (“I’ve got Israel’s back”) administration leaked to the media the specifications for the heretofore-secret US-Israel installation for Israel’s Arrow 3 missiles. It was quickly called just another leak from an administration already reeling from leaks; someone apologized.

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Immigrants must be better vetted for terrorist links

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Parties on various sides of the immigration debate in the United State have focused mainly on issues surrounding Hispanic immigrants because there are a lot of them and numbers get attention. Human Rights Watch, for example, created a handy-dandy checklist for the Senate version of the immigration bill, including

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Building up P.A. won’t make it more amenable to peace

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last week, before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on the tips of everyone’s tongue. People in Israel aren’t waking

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Hezb’allah: The terrorist organization Europe tries to ignore

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, and Bahrain designate Hezb’allah a terrorist organization; Britain and Australia outlaw only Hezb’allah’s “terrorist wing” but permit its “political wing” to organize and raise money (only for political activity, of course). A motion by Britain will put the British/Australian formula on the

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Is Israel, in Kerry’s view, too prosperous?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — At first blush, it might have sounded like praise, but it wasn’t. Before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel’s prosperity an impediment to “peace” with the Palestinians. “I think there is an opportunity [for peace], but for many reasons it’s not on

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