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Deeds As Well As Words

Larry Snider — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:41:48 +0000

Recently President Obama paid a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories and worked hard to repair the difficult relationship he’s had with Prime Minister Netanyahu by saying and doing the right things. This charm offensive has helped to place the two leaders on the same page regarding the Iranian nuclear threat and to cooperate [...]

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Honoring Rabbi Froman

Larry Snider — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:22:06 +0000

I had the great privilege of meeting Rabbi Froman in Tekoa as he spoke to the interfaith delegation from Philadelphia that I put together in 2008 in partnership with Leah Green and her Compassionate Listening Project. It had been a most difficult day leaving Hebron early after meeting with David Wilder the day before and [...]

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Peace in a Troubled Land

Larry Snider — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:53:35 +0000

I’m sitting here some 5000 miles away from the action in my little home without a safe room or the worry of a military call up for my son or the threat of a missile attack from Gaza. I don’t have a vote in the Israeli election. But I do have a voice. I found [...]

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A Tangible Way Forward

Larry Snider — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:00:13 +0000

There are many challenges facing the State of Israel in the coming year in the wake of the cease- fire arrangement with Hamas and the recognition of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly as a non member observer state. The continuing Arab revolution is replacing dictators with Islamic leaders who are at least as [...]

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War Games

Larry Snider — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:10:12 +0000

“On August 6, 1945, I was a 13-year-old grade 8 student at Hiroshima Jogakuin and a member of The Student Mobilization Program. I was one of a group of 30 students assigned to help at the army headquarters. We were on the second floor of the wooden building about a mile from the hypocentre, about [...]

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Tzedek, tzedek tirdof

Larry Snider — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:56:31 +0000

How does one look at the enormity of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and honorably call for let alone usher in justice. The asymmetrical power difference has generated a war of terror followed by military reaction led by military action followed by terror. On a much more personal level people are maimed by Israeli [...]

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Saving Israel from Saving Itself

Larry Snider — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:22:58 +0000

Time is short. Everyone knows that the window when Israel can act on its own is between today and November. And the clock is ticking. According to Haaretz; “The NIE, (National Intelligence Estimate just received by President Obama), report contends that Iran has made surprising, notable progress in the research and development of key components [...]

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Fires Are Burning

Larry Snider — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:05:45 +0000

It is a dangerous moment in Israel and across the globe. Issues that rip at generations of Israelis such as individual responsibility to protect and put on the uniform of the IDF have broken the bounds of table conversation and upset the governing coalition. The report by Emanuel Levy on the legality of settlements has [...]

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The Beinart Brief

Larry Snider — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:21:05 +0000

It has taken me a while to actually sit down and read “The Crisis Of Zionism,” even as I have waded through a mountain of reviews and more than enough praise and criticism to know that the book along with Peter Beinart’s earlier article in the New York Review of Books; “The Failure of the [...]

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Mapping a Unilateral Path to Peace

Larry Snider — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:55:47 +0000

Some interesting voices from the Israeli defense establishment are calling for unilateral action as a necessary primer to Israeli/Palestinian peace that began formerly on April 23rd with Ami Ayalon and company in a New York Times Op Ed; “Peace Without Partners:” www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/opinion/peace-without-partners.html. Ayalon and his partners, Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher, and their new organization; [...]

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Playing nuclear chicken

Larry Snider — Sun, 27 May 2012 11:42:42 +0000

It is difficult to put the nuclear genie back in the bottle in an Iran that has ambitions that involve not only the destruction of Israel and the expansion of its power in the Middle East, but its full emergence on the stage as a world power. I have read a number of respected military [...]

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Is Netanyahu a “Madman?”

Larry Snider — Mon, 07 May 2012 12:43:17 +0000

I’ve thought and read a lot about Middle East Peace and slowly reached some conclusions. I’ve heard security stated as a rational for everything you can imagine and some things it would do you well not to. The existential stuff appears to be self-evident. Or is it? Politicians and pundits here in America as well [...]

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Peace is not a four letter word

Larry Snider — Thu, 03 May 2012 16:42:31 +0000

I just read another Op Ed by a conservative Israeli columnist, Isi Leibler; “Most Israelis and Jews are under no illusions;” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=268448 , that in a thorough and well argued manner put peace between Israelis and Palestinians to sleep, stated how most Israelis are not interested and no longer believe that it is achievable, defined [...]

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22,993

Larry Snider — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:46:32 +0000

It’s not a number understood outside Israel. It’s the number of Israeli soldiers who have died since 1860. It’s a number that bears repeating on Yom Hazikaron; Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers. It’s a number that bears repeating every day because it is a tragic reminder of a conflict that continues to take and [...]

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Welcome To Palestine

Larry Snider — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:01:13 +0000

A small group of pro-Palestinian activists from across the globe made it onto airplanes destined for the Ben Gurion airport and a promotion sponsored in the city of Bethlehem by its Mayor and about twenty local organizations. “Welcome to Palestine,” boasted that thousands would come to join the festivities, build a school and protest against [...]

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