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Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen

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

Note to Dennis Ross: The world has changed since the signing of the Oslo Accords.
Jordan is in a tight spot. It always is in a tight spot—it was born in a tight spot—and pundits love to remind us that King Abdullah II is lucky to hold onto his throne.
But for whom? Gifts to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas for terror against Israel don’t benefit anyone except the terrorists.
The disastrous Biden policy has abandoned longtime American allies and paid Tehran a series of dividends with no agreement to curtail its abhorrent behavior at home or abroad.
Military pressure is not in the cards. The bottom line is that the Palestinian Authority is corrupt, and that has to be solved internally.
Perhaps the Iranian nuclear scientist died of natural causes and the Iranian government decided to make a story out of it.
Is it possible for Israel to “normalize” relations with a P.A. or Hamas that won’t commit to the U.N. Resolution 242 or the Abraham Accords?
Everything we are as Americans—and everything we want for and from others—is determined in some measure by how we define our friends and allies, and how we defend against our adversaries.
First, “land for peace” was never viable. The Palestinian goal was presumed to be “land” and Israel’s was “peace.” But “peace” is not a negotiable property.
The “Abraham Accord” is a major breakthrough, aided by American leadership and exceptionalism.
DeSean Jackson said his goal was to elevate African-Americans. That has been the goal of some pretty amazing people right here in America—black and white—for a long time.
The United States believes that Israel has waited long enough to redeem promises by the United Nations, and in the absence of Palestinian engagement, Israel is entitled to begin the process of securing its border in the east: in Judea and Samaria.