Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

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

Her books, available on Amazon, include:

*Essays in Technology, Security and Strategy (with Stephen Bryen and Rebecca Abrams)
*Essays in Technology, Security and Stategy, Vol. 2 (with Stephen Bryen and Rebecca Abrams) 

Commentary: Welcome action by Congress reexamining aid to Lebanese Armed Forces

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday,  in the wake of the killing of an IDF officer inside Israel by Lebanese Armed Forces personnel, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) announced that Congress would block the disbursement of $100 million in U.S. military aid to Lebanon.  Lowey chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee that authorizes such funds.  Similarly, […]

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Resolution on U.S. money for UNRWA makes way through House

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In January 2010, the Canadian government announced that its aid would be redirected from UNRWA to “specific projects in the Palestinian Authority that will ensure accountability and foster democracy in the PA.”  The total amount of money was the same, but the president of Canada’s Treasury Board said, “It

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Commentary: Unprovoked attack from Lebanon latest by Israel's hostile neighbors

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.  –It wasn’t Hezbollah; it was the LAF that killed one Israeli officer and seriously wounded another. It wasn’t in Lebanon; it was in Israel that they were attacked.   The IDF had notified the UNIFIL liaison that it would be working on the Israeli side of the Blue Line –

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Commentary: More worrying signs about U.S.-trained Palestinian army

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –JINSA has long expressed concern about military skills being transmitted by the U.S. to a Palestinian Authority military force while the Palestinian government remains openly hostile to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. The Israelis tell us, “The more they do against Hamas, the less we have to do.”  The

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Commentary:U.S. pressing Israel for territorial concessions in trade for defensive weapons

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, was dispatched last Friday to the Brookings Institution to advance the charm offensive that seeks to convince Israelis and American supporters of Israel that the Obama Administration is Israel’s best friend. He worked hard, but his bottom line was

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Jundullah movement terrorizing eastern Iran

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Thursday, July 15,  was designated “Revolutionary Guard Day” by the Iranian government. The same day, two bombs exploded in a mosque in the city of Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. According to Iranian reports, two suicide bombers entered the mosque and detonated themselves, killing 30 and injuring more than 100 people. The

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Deconstructing President Obama's interview on Israeli TV

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews:   “This is the

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What does an agreement between U.S. and Israel really mean?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives for his 5th set of meetings with President Obama, the headline in one newspaper is, “Obama mum on Bush’s borders for Israel,” noting, “The White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final borders

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Suppose Turkey Transfers U.S. Technology and Tactics to Iran and Syria

Ed. Note: Turkish media jumped on a sentence in a recent column in which we worried about the potential compromise of Western military technology by Turkey as it expands its relations with Iran and Syria (and Brazil, Hamas and Hezbollah). We weren’t the only ones worried. A member of our Board of Advisors with long

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U.S. mission in Afghanistan becoming increasingly muddled

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — What is the American goal in Afghanistan? To chase al Qaeda, degrade the Taliban, or protect the people from the Taliban’s depredations? Is it to provide consensual government under elected leadership, clean government and services to the people? Or maybe it is to kill bad guys? But what constitutes

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