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