Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

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

Her books, available on Amazon, include:

Norway’s ambassador justifies terror against Israelis while condeming domestic Norwegian terror

  By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It should be hard to pick on Norwegians and their government this week, but it is impossible to overlook Svein Sevje, Norway’s ambassador to Israel. Trying to “outline the similarity and the difference in the two cases” (mass murder of Norwegians by a Norwegian and mass murder of […]

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Ideologies of the lunatics may differ, but they are willing to kill for them

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The horror of mass murder in Oslo last week begs nothing as much as distance. All the first comments were wrong. Knowledgeable people – “experts” – were sure it was Muslims and wondered why Norway was a target since Norway is certainly hospitable to Muslims and hostile – sometimes virulently

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Defense budget must be based on threat assessment

  By Shoshana Bryen   WASHINGTON, D.C —  The Constitution obliges our government to provide for the common defense.  Determining against whom, under what circumstances, with what capabilities and under whose direction is the prerogative of the President, the Commander in Chief.   The military services carry out the directives of the President, so the priorities of

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

4th of July no time to draw close to groups that restrict rights of minorities

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Muslim Brotherhood, The Fourth of July: compare and contrast. The Declaration of Independence reflects our founders’ understanding of man, State  and God. The rights that come to man from God are unalienable – life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – and drawn broadly enough to encompass all

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Red Cross takes a stand on Shalit; CNN, NYT taking sides for Gaza

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the Flag & General Officers Program in Israel, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) asked the Israeli government why it gives Hamas a “free ride” from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). We wrote, “You let/enable/assist the Red Cross in doing its humanitarian work in the

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Jordan at the crossroads

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.  — The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is generally sympathetic to the difficulties faced by Jordan’s King Abdullah II. He is a Hashemite ruling a mostly Palestinian and Bedouin country; an excellent security partner to Israel because Israel ensures that he will not be overthrown by Palestinians who believe

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Palestinian vote could set precedent for secessionist movements throughout world

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than 60 years, the United Nations has worked mightily to prevent the Arabs from paying the price of their rejection of the independence of Israel in 1948 and to stoke the fires of Palestinian irredentism: denying resettlement to Arabs who fled the Arab war against Israel; five

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Central European history not a template for Mideast

  By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — In honor of Russia’s National Day on Sunday, Russia House took out a full-page ad in a Washington newspaper. The first text line reads, “Twenty years ago, Russia completed the process of liberating about two dozen nations, itself included, from communist rule.” Funny, the Poles, Czechs, Estonians and

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Israel ready for military challenges from Iran-backed neighbors

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — At the anniversary of the Six Day War, we are reminded of the existential threat Israel faced. Egypt was massing troops in the Sinai after closing the Straits of Tiran and expelling the UN peacekeeping force. Syria was massing troops on the Golan after years of shelling Israelis in

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