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Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center and editor of inFOCUS Quarterly.

The United States and Israel find themselves in a war they didn’t ask for, don’t want, but have to win.
Israel isn’t alone in its fight as Iranian proxies try to reassert their power
And we thought Oct. 7 was the worst. Hamas keeps showing the world how depraved its adherents can be.
It beats ignoring more than 80 years of Arab rejection and oppression of the Palestinians, as well as the terror-seeking response.
According to the administration, Israel is not a security ally, tech ally, democratic ally or any other kind of ally.
The issue of chemical weapons is crucial, as the illegitimacy of their use is one of the few points of international consensus in wartime.
Democratic, Western governments have become cowardly and unwilling to defend the liberal principles they promote on paper.
Israel seeks no conflict with either UNIFIL or the LAF. If they get out of the way, they will have no problem.
Iranian-sponsored terrorist groups are not speaking the same language the U.S. State Department speaks and words like “de-escalation” hold no meaning.