Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center in Washington D.C.
Her books, available on Amazon, include:
The only consistent protection Israel had from the broadly anti-Zionist, antisemitic, anti-Western, anti-American, anti-democratic United Nations was the United States. Until now. [Shoshana Bryen]
U.S. Abstention on Gaza Ceasefire a Favor to Iran Read More »
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Admiral John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, said explicitly that the United States is not looking for a war with Iran. He failed to mention that Iran has proclaimed itself at war with the United States and has been using its proxies to attack US bases and killing and wounding American soldiers for years. Iran now controls Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon. [Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen]
OpEd: Iraq and Iran Complicit in the Tower 22 Attack Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Stephen D. Bryen, USAExtolling Iranian-armed and trained Houthi terrorists who were firing on American and other shipping, kidnapping crewmen from the ships, and firing missiles at southern Israel, and have now fired on American warships, the minions in the West wave signs proclaiming, “I stand with Yemen.” And “Hands off Yemen.” [Shoshana Bryen]
OpEd: Mindless Embrace of Houthi Terror Read More »
Israel, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USABefore he meets with Palestinian Authority (PA) strongman Mahmoud Abbas on Friday, Biden should be aware that Abbas has already rejected the notion of “normalization” of relations between the PA, Israel and the Arab States, nixing the principle of accepting the State of Israel, i.e., nixing a solution ending in two states. [Shoshana Bryen]
Biden Will Find Abbas Opposed to Two-State Solution’s Requirements Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen (JNS) Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh died covering an Israeli counter-terror operation on the West Bank. That this was a tragedy is the only thing clear about her death. Various media outlets—some reasonably unbiased and some not—mounted “investigations.” Private companies, including a Dutch-based consortium, did their own. Politicians with an ax to grind
The Bullet That Killed Abu Akleh Read More »
Middle East, Opinion, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen (JNS) The Biden administration appears to believe that Iran’s threat to the world consists only of its nuclear program and the possibility of nuclear war. It has lifted sanctions on Tehran and the terrorist designation from the Houthis of Yemen. It is considering lifting the terror designation from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Iran’s Multiple Threats and Biden’s Multiple Concessions Read More »
International, Middle East, Opinion, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen (JNS) We’ve become accustomed to ongoing and vicious denunciations of Israel in the United Nations, Amnesty International, the International Court of Justice and the European Union; Iran and its proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis; and more recently, “The Squad,” Black Lives Matter and BDS. We’ve become accustomed, too, to telling ourselves
By Shoshana Bryen (JNS) U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides spoke before the conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel this week. He was charming and reassuring, and stressed the bipartisan nature of American government support for Israel. “We have unbreakable ties, and we will reinforce them.” Unfortunately, he also took a large
By Shoshana Bryen While staying out of the horrific Syrian Civil War (except humanitarian aid at the border), Israel has long had three red lines for what happens in its northern neighbor: No Iranian or Hezbollah bases near the Israeli border; revised to no Iran in Syria. No weapons delivered by Iran to Hezbollah that Israel considers
Russia and Israel: Cooperating Under the Radar in Syria? Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana BryenGo with it for a moment. Accept that Tehran only wants to take care of its people and seeks a better deal than the one that imposed sanctions, limitations, and inspections. But be careful. [Shoshana Bryen]
What Iran’s ‘Good’ Nuclear Agreement Really Means Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAIn a meeting in May with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Biden administration priority “to continue to rebuild our relationship with the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Authority.” Now, after announcing it wants to open a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem for the Palestinians, come reports that the administration is working on a plan for a Palestinian “unity government” of Hamas and Fatah to negotiate the “two-state solution” with Israel. [Shoshana Bryen]
Shoshana Bryen: U.S. Encourages Palestinian Intransigence Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USAIsrael’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is arriving in Washington for talks with a wide range of American political figures and establishments. But most important is likely to be his peer-to-peer meetings with counterpart Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The last such meeting took place in May, at the end of the Hamas rocket war against Israel, abetted by intense incitement to anti-Israel violence by the Palestinian Authority (PA). That meeting, between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and PM/FM Benjamin Netanyahu, was itself cordial, but it laid out a wide gulf in the priorities of the two countries — and that gulf remains for FM Lapid. [Shoshana Bryen]
Lapid and Blinken Have Numerous Differences to Overcome Read More »
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (JNS) — The “Pandora Papers” is a trove of “private” financial information on 14 current heads of state, including those of the Czech Republic, Kenya, Ecuador, Azerbaijan, Russia and Jordan. According to The Washington Post, “The files detail more than 29,000 offshore accounts. … Among the account owners are more
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — First, remember our troops, living and dead, who served the United States in Afghanistan since 2001. They are owed our gratitude for their steadfast presence in a difficult country and our help as they and their families, and the families of the dead, navigate the emotionally terrible terrain of a
3 Takeaways from Afghanistan for Us at Home Read More »
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