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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.
The presumption was that exchanges of land for peace would happen after an agreement with the Palestinians. But that left the timing up to them; if they didn’t agree, then it wouldn’t happen. And so far, it has not.
The U.S. government has provided military training and weapons—plus $1.5 billion in aid—to the government of Lebanon since 2006, the end of the war Hezbollah instigated against Israel.
Finish the 1948 war. Accept the legitimate and permanent presence of the State of Israel, even if it is 70 years late.