Articles & Blog Posts by Shoshana Bryen

• Entering Rafah on Yom HaShoah
• Operation Prosperity Guardian
• Niger and El Salvador: More in Common Than One Might Think
• WHO is running the club
• Predicting and preparing for war
• Where The U.S. and Israel Make Common Cause
• How Long Do They Get to be Wrong?
• Biden Deflects to Saudi Arabia
• What the US and Iran agree on
• Upping the Ante in Ukraine
• Between the Scylla of the PA and the Charybdis of Hamas
• Regional Architecture and the Middle East
• The US will never stop violence in the Middle East until it gets tough on Iran
• 'If/Then' is no Policy for Dealing with Russia
• Are Russia and Israel cooperating under the radar in Syria?
• Tehran Seeks a 'Better Deal'
• People Don't Want to be Cold
• The foreign minister’s visit
• Three Takeaways from Afghanistan for Us at Home
• Why are we bailing out the terrorism-supporting Palestinians?
• Withholding Weapons from Israel Makes the US Weak
• Iran's Goals
• Talking Won’t Solve the Iran Problem
• The Problem Isn’t in Palestinian Numbers
• Open Skies: The Cassette Deck of Treaties
• Is Iran Going Home?
• Remember Federalism? COVID-19 Takes us Back
• Planning for 'Peace' in Afghanistan
• Sanctions in a time of Pandemic
• Righteous Anger vs. Politics as Usual
• Trump's Foreign Policy: Less Military, More Money
• The Shiite Crescent and Regional Disaster
• Patiently Squeezing Iran
• Orbán at the White House
• The Gaza Rebellion as the Arab Spring
• A Palestinian Terrorist Too Brutal for Fatah
• Finally Signs of Hope for Venezuela?
• Israel's Sovereignty on the Golan Heights: Why Now?
• Trump Declares Victory in Syria Too Soon
• The Russians and the Kerch Bridge: What Would Reagan Do?
• Iran's Shaky Foundations
• Taking an Axe to 'Peace Processing'
• Wrecking NATO
• Making the Iranians Mad
• Never Again?
• No Breaks for Israel
• A Down Payment for Peace
• The Middle East's Problems Are Really Our Problems
• Palestinian Reconciliation: To What End?
• How Naked Is the Iranian Emperor?
• Egypt, America's Ally in the Larger War
• Where is Israel?
• Lebanon Is an Outpost of Iran
• It's about Sovereignty
• Another lopsided trade: Israel compromises, Palestinians keep everything
• Does Trump Get the Israel-Arab Problem?
• Straight talk and Palestinian 'intent'
• How Trump Got Liberals to Embrace Federalism
• The Accumulation of Vibrations
• Saffie Rose Russos, British terror victim, and the president
• The President Goes to Israel
• Punishment as Foreign Policy
• The Opposite of a Two-State Solution Is Not One State
• Making Policy in the New Administration
• UN Resolution 242: The Linchpin of Israel’s Security
• Lebanon's Government and Iran's Victory
• Biden speaks in Turkey. Ouch.
• What Outcome do we Seek in Syria?
• Iran: Follow the Money
• Why Not Zero?
• Funding Israel’s Missile Defense -- and America’s
• Israel as a Security Asset – for Everyone
• Reversing Israel on the Golan Heights
• Russia Leaves Syria: Not Every War is a Quagmire
• French Diplomacy on 'Palestine' Will Run Aground
• Iran Trade: The Deal on Balance
• The Next Stage of the War
• It's not about 'Muslims', it's about Terror
• 'Tactical Patience,' 'Zero Casualties' and Still no Goal
• <em>Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite</em>
• Could the destroyed Russian plane be jihadi payback?
• What Goes Around, Goes Around
• Hitler or Stalin? The Case for Choosing
• Pristine War and Zero Casualties
• Congress Knows Everything the Administration Knows
• A Middle East 'Complete Strategy'? To What End?
• Christians in the Middle East: Sometimes it isn't About Israel
• Iran Has Red Lines -- Too Bad the U.S. Doesn't
• The U.S. is there 'when it matters,' right?
• 40 Years from Saigon
• NYPD had it Right a Long Time Ago
• The U.S.-Israel Divide on Iran
• The U.S. as 'Pindostan'
• Iran Doesn't Need Nuclear Weapons
• Back in Iraq: What Happened to AfPak?
• Cuba and the 'State of Palestine'
• Chemical Weapons Revelations in the Middle East
• Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Kobani
• 'Every War Must End'
• We Already Built an Iraqi Army Once, Now What?
• The "Disengaged" President Punishes Israel
• End the Arab-Israel War
• Why a Gaza Cease Fire Doesn't Help
• How Does Israel End Up the Bad Guy?
• A Requiem for Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel, and Mohammed Karaka
• Hamas tells Israel, 'No Hope'
• Zero-Sum Suffering
• How the U.S. Went Wrong and Why
• Where Did the Peace Process Go?
• What's Happening to the Internet?
• An 'Unfriendly Gesture'
• America Speaks... and Who Cares?
• Waking Up to Defense Cuts
• Seeing What isn't There
• Be Angry with the Iranians, Mr. President, and Yourself
• Egypt: It's Not a Democracy, but It's Not Nothing, Either
• Destroying Syrian Chemicals at Sea
• An 'Objects' Lesson from Syria
• Listening to the Palestinians
• Israel in the American Bazaar
• America as the Protector of Putin, Assad, and Khamenei
• Egypt Turning to the Russians? Not so Fast
• The Confluence of Events in Syria
• We're Talking (While They're Acting)
• Poor America
• Jews, Germans, and Poison Gas
• While we Wait: the Real Lesson of Iraq
• On Syria: Americans are War-Wary, Not Weary
• The Triumph of Illusion in the Middle East
• Fixing Palestine
• Paying in Advance
• Agitating for an American War in Syria
• The U.S. Gets a 'Mulligan' in Egypt
• Russian Troubles in Syria, and Ours
• Abandoning Vietnam, er, Afghanistan
• How to Not Inspire Confidence
• People, Privacy, and Fear
• Wissam Allouche and the Touchy Problems of Immigration
• Hezb'allah: A Chicken on the EU Terror List
• Obama's Still Trying to Define the War
• Russia is Playing a Losing Hand like a Winner
• Mistaking Cause and Effect in Syria
• The Secretary's Epiphany
• Shut That Window of Opportunity, Please
• All Terrorism is Connected
• Happy Birthday, Israel
• What Do We Want Done in Syria?
• The Israel Test and the America Test
• Israel has a Government, Mr. President
• Training Syrian Rebels to Conquer Golan Heights and Shoot Down Israeli Aircraft
• Secretary Kerry's Maiden Speech
• Obama at Ramallah
• What Happens When the Government Tells the Truth
• Chuck Hagel at J Street: Mediocre Boilerplate
• The President's Wars and Women in Combat
• Israel's Election Changes the Guard - and More
• We're Leaving Now; The Wars Remain
• The Strange Arrest of Zaki al-Sakani
• Where the Pressure Lies in the Middle East
• What to Do About a Coup
• 'Carnage in Schedule Two'
• Back to Being a 'Sh**ty Little Country'
• Why Treat Sudan Like a Normal Country?
• The Commander in Chief's Lack of Military Awareness
• Ceasing Fire
• The Enemy of my Enemy in Damascus
• Leaving No One Behind
• Having your Soldiers' Back
• Will the U.S. Take On the Russians to Take Out Assad?
• What to Do with Sanctions
• Rethinking Palestine 2012
• Obama in Denial on the War against America
• Does AP stand for 'Associated Propaganda'?
• Mrs. Clinton and American Sensibilities
• Relying on US Intelligence
• President Obama's Tin Ear
• Russia, Unfortunately, Being Russia
• South African BDS - or Just BS?
• 'Cooling off Israel' and Riling up Americans
• Is Hillary Clueless or Cavalier? Neither Helps
• Standard Chartered Bank and Iran. Yawn?
• Rise Up and Die: Hillary Clinton on Aleppo in February
• The beginning of accountability in Egypt?
• Obama Trying to Buy Allies in Syrian Revolution
• The Palestinian Culture of Slapping Israel
• Palestinian Financial Crisis Looms
• Back to the U.S.-Israel Future
• When Everything's Been Said
• Staying Out of Syria
• Facing the Brutal Reality of American Syrian Policy
• The ICG Rethinking the "Peace Process"
• Military Exercises and Political Correctness
• Why is the U.S. doing Special Ops exercise with Egypt and Pakistan?
• The Rights of Indigenous People and the Rest of Us
• The New Israeli Coalition and the Elephant in the Cabinet Room
• Lessons from the Fall of Saigon
• Mystery Ship to Syria Raises Questions
• Between War and a Warm Embrace
• What's on That Ship, and Where Is It Going?
• Obama's 'Space' for Russia
• Does It Matter if He Was Neo-Nazi or Muslim? (updated)
• The Correction Doesn't Help
• Presidents, Emperors, and Volunteer Forces
• Bravo to Italian Police (and a Warning)
• Foreign Aid and American Priorities
• SEAL Team 6: A Big Secret, Unless Obama Wants to Brag
• Israel and the US Perspectives on Iran at Odds
• The Taliban and the PLO
• The Chicken Theory of Islamist Parties
• 'A Monstrous, Ramshackle, Stinking Machine'
• Where Ron Paul Meets Barack Obama
• Striking Iran? Not Likely
• The Release of Gilad Shalit is The End of the 'Peace Process'
• This Is a Screwy Time for Optimism, Isn't It?
• Obama's Turkey Policy Is Proving to Be a Turkey
• Negotiating 'Peace' and Not Getting There