Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center in Washington D.C.
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs calls on President Obama to take a personal interest in the “Middle East dispute” and use his personal good offices to push the parties to the conflict to a resolution that serves “vital national security interests” for the United States. Recalcitrant parties, pursuing their own […]
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration undertook domestic security and foreign policy decisions to cope with the threat to American interests we understood to have emerged: colored threat levels, airport security changes, the provisions of The Patriot Act at home, and better intelligence coordination and the wars
Did Obama's nuclear conference make us more safe? Read More »
Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Sometimes it takes a while for a story to come full circle. Last week, we reported on a ForeignPolicy.com blog that said American military officers in CENTCOM blamed U.S. relations with Israel for American weakness in the region. The ForeignPolicy blog went viral on the web, attracting other “authoritative” statements blaming
General Petraeus sets record straight on Israel Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.– Fairly authoritative sources have noted that Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. Army general responsible for training Abu Mazen’s Palestinian security force/army, has become increasingly marginalized by the Fatah government. Last summer his staff was reportedly no longer directly involved in training or planning and had been “expelled” from the
The Folly of America Training the Palestinian Army Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–It is tempting in the midst of “snowmageddon” here in Washington, to hunker down and forget that anyone is out beyond our immediate very white sphere, but Thursday, Feb. 11, is the 30th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. It has been 30 years of Shiite triumphalism, impoverishing and brutalizing the
U.S. should encourage Iran's counter-revolution Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.– Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spoke before the Knesset Monday, a rare honor for a visitor. He used the platform not only to praise Israel and talk about the warm Italian-Israeli ties that have grown and deepened during his tenure, but also to raise an increasingly difficult subject-Western civilization
"We, the free and liberal people… " Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Over the summer, the Government of Iraq accused the Government of Syria of harboring al Qaeda camps and permitting operatives to cross the border into Iraq to attack Iraqis and Americans-including the attack on August 19, 2009 that killed 95 people and wounded more than 500 in the heart of
Iraq right to fight al Qaeda, resist Ba'ath Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Forward started it in December. Ha’aretz picked up the theme this month, writing, “The Bush administration violated security related agreements with Israel in which the U.S. promised to preserve the IDF’s qualitative military edge (QME) over Arab armies, according to senior officials in the Obama administration and Israel,” and
Has U.S. eliminated Israel's qualitative edge over possible Arab foes? Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — As the first Israel Defense Forces (IDF) emergency aid team (there is now a second) left for Haiti, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Given Israel’s security needs, we have accumulated much search and rescue experience over the years. We have applied this experience previously in disaster scenes throughout the
Israel's humanitarian efforts in Haiti Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Now that President Obama has acknowledged that the United States is, indeed, at war, the relevant questions are, “against whom and with what allies?” Mr. Obama said, “We are at war with al Qaeda.” Our allies include our Western-thinking coalition partners, of course. But our allies are also supposed
Who are the U.S. allies in the war on terror? Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Before leaving town, the House and Senate agreed to a 60-day extension of provisions of the Patriot Act set to expire at the end of the year. When they return they will take up the separate House and Senate versions of the bill that would reauthorize the full
Congress should examine both Patriot Act and Interpol privileges Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Bush was right. There. We said it and we’ll say it again. President Bush was right that the war in which the West is engaged is the war against terrorists and the states that harbor and support them. President Bush’s formulation was a sea change from the Clinton
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –It was bad enough that United States agents failed to take seriously the visit by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father, a prominent banker, to the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria to report his concerns about his own son’s associates and behavior. It was bad enough that spokesmen for the U.S. government later
Attempted bombing was not a single criminal event but rather an act of war Read More »
Shoshana BryenBy Shoshana Bryen [Note: at the Sunday funeral of the three men, thousands of Palestinians chanted anti-PA slogans, accusing the Palestinian Authority of “collusion” with Israel to arrest, disarm and kill Fatah military operatives. A largely unreported story is the unhappiness of Palestinians with the ruthlessness of the PA security forces in hunting down its
Security for Israel, By Israel Read More »
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