Shoshana Bryen
ARTICLES BY: Shoshana Bryen
Vladimir Putin: The Murderer
The Ukrainian military has been making gains on the ground against Russian forces, prompting increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin at home. As supporters and arms...
Palestinian Miscalculations Have Led to a New Violence, Possible War
Things tend to run together in the Middle East. Right now, Sheikh Jarrah, Palestinian elections, the Hamas-Fatah civil war, the Abraham Accords, US recognition of...
How the Abraham Accords Are Making Iran Desperate
The north pincer is commonly referred to as the “Shiite Crescent,” stretching from the body across Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea. It...
Is Iran Leaving Syria?
If you are Iran, it seems, 2020 is not your year. Aside from the devastation of the coronavirus, Iraq closed its 1,000-mile southern border with Iran...
Has the Iranian Empire Overreached?
Since December 2017, a sort of “rolling rebellion” has been occurring across Iran. It is bigger, deeper, and stronger than the Green Revolution of 2009,...
More Accurate Rocket Attacks on Israel Could Lead to a Full-Scale War
The latest rocket attacks on Israel -- approximately 200 so far -- are being well-handled by the Iron Dome air defense system and by the...
US-Israel Security Cooperation Is a Win-Win
One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that US-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial, and...
Why Is the US Training and Equipping the Lebanese Army?
American security assistance generally is predicated on the principle that a smaller or poorer country that has US equipment and training will be better able...
At the Risk of Further Upsetting Ms. Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib was in tears over the conditions in which her grandmother lives in the West Bank, and furious that her mother, an American citizen,...
Patiently Squeezing Iran
What appears to be an oil tanker war brewing in the Red Sea and beyond -- including the downing of an Iranian drone by a...
For Ilhan Omar, History Starts Today
For Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, the world must start fresh every day. That would explain her ignorance on Iran. “None of this [tension] would be happening...
A Middle Ground on Trump and Orbán at the White House
Despite the fact that the Trump administration has spent two years communicating its concerns with Hungary regarding academic freedom, antisemitism, and other illiberal positions of...
The Iranian Mullahs Are Nervous
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif’s appearance over the weekend on CBS’s Face the Nation showed him trying to convince someone -- his minders at home, perhaps --...
The Reality of the ‘Two-State Solution’
Last week, Jared Kushner, one of the Trump administration’s point men on the Middle East, dispensed with the term “two-state solution.” “The two-state solution has failed,”...
