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) 

World should not shrug its shoulders at Iran’s cheating

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic Republic of Iran’s declared position is that it does not want nuclear weapons and never has. Which is good, because the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) contains language declaring that “under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons.” Which is […]

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Biography of Jerusalem has its agenda

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Simon Sebag-Montefiore brings impeccable credentials to the monumental task of writing Jerusalem: The Biography. A history Ph.D. from Cambridge, he has been a banker and a foreign correspondent reporting on, among other events, the fall of the Soviet Union. He is also the great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore, the international

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Now is not the time for U.S. to quit Syria

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Syrian government’s chemical attack on civilians in the rebel-held suburb of Douma this weekend is the complete responsibility of the war criminal Bashar Assad, his Russian bedfellows, and his Iranian bankers. However, the fact that President Trump had announced that the U.S. is nearly finished its mission to defeat ISIS (which is questionable)

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The case for punishing Syria’s chemical weapon use

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The primary goals of American foreign policy is to make our citizens, friends and allies secure and to make our adversaries think twice. There are moments in history when well-timed, well-placed military action will have the effect of causing fear — and moments that, if allowed to pass by,

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Does U.N. bill U.S. for refugees who don’t exist?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — Palestinian refugees are a slippery population — but when 285,535 of them go missing from a small country such as Lebanon, it should raise eyebrows. UNRWA in Lebanon reports on its website that 449,957 refugees live under its protection in 12 camps, but a survey by Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics, together

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Hamas, Fatah peace parlay rife with problems

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — After weeks of Egyptian-sponsored pre-talks, and a very short “cabinet meeting” in Gaza, “formal reconciliation talks” are now being held between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (P.A. or Fatah) in Cairo under the direct auspices of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. For some Middle East-watchers, the talks are a form

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Iran’s challenge should be addressed immediately

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his televised address on the future of American operations in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump took a sharp turn from his predecessors. I share [the American people’s] frustration over a foreign policy that has spent too much time, energy, money, and most importantly lives, trying to rebuild countries in our

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U.S. underwrites Iran’s expansion in Lebanon

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States persists in treating Lebanon as if it were a country.  Congress provides U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and trains the LAF’s officers.  And now we’re fighting alongside the LAF, apparently to oust ISIS from encampments inside Lebanon, where they have moved across

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Reading into State Department readouts

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following high-level meetings with foreign leaders, the U.S. State Department issues a “readout,” an official statement to cover and characterize the event. This week, Jared Kushner, assistant to the president, and Jason Greenblatt, special representative for international negotiations, met with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud

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Skepticism due P.A. on promise to stop aid to terrorists

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s straight talk about veneration of violence in Palestinian society has had important consequences.  It was the catalyst for Norway and Denmark to disassociate from the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) habit of naming public spaces for terrorists. UNRWA, the Red Crescent (UAE), and the U.N. secretary general have

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