Articles & Blog Posts by Shoshana Bryen
- Operation Prosperity Guardian
- Niger and El Salvador: More in Common Than One Might Think
- 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
- All Terrorism is Connected
- Shut That Window of Opportunity, Please
- 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?
- Ceasing Fire
- The Commander in Chief's Lack of Military Awareness
- 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
