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Jul 20, 2022, 11:35 PM

Listening for peace

To attempt to make a serious contribution to the unending expletive-filled dilemma that is Middle East Peace is a fool’s errand. It has been done and done and done again with buckets full of both good intentions and bad....

Oct 13, 2017, 11:39 PM

Once upon a time in March 2001 I boarded a bus from Lambertiville to Newark Airport to fly to Ben Gurion and begin my first journey to the Holy Land as a member of Leah Green’s Citizen Diplomacy Delegation....

Jun 18, 2017, 9:25 PM

The Road to Lasting Peace

I have my differences with President Trump. Frankly, I voted for Hillary and lean to the left on the American political spectrum. But I am interested in helping to seek and find and make and finally keep the peace...

May 29, 2017, 5:48 PM

The Future of American Jewish Liberalism

Where to begin? I recall many years ago being on the receiving end of a Conservative attack on my liberalism being called a Self-Hating Jew. Not the most positive terminology. I spoke up about Israel and the Occupation and...

May 20, 2017, 6:47 PM

Where to begin? In 1896 Theodore Herzl published “The Jewish State.” In the introduction Herzl stated that: “The Jews who wish for a State shall have it, and they will deserve to have it." Let’s go back a little further. In...

May 6, 2017, 5:58 PM

Playing in the Mud

Foreign policy can be a dirty business. Each new US President faces a world full of challenges that pose threats as well as creates opportunities while calling out for American leadership. After a hundred days Donald Trump appears to...

Jan 24, 2017, 1:56 PM

Annexation is not the answer

There is a raft of hot and hotter reaction in Israel to the Obama Administrations abstention on the recent UN Resolution against settlements. Naftali Bennett, Education Minister and leader of the Jewish Home Party told multiple media sources that...

Dec 31, 2016, 6:55 PM

Peace in the Age of Trump

It appears that Oslo may finally die on January 20, 2017 with the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States. But the President-Elect is still looking for peace in a different form to...

Nov 26, 2016, 2:08 PM

Caroline Glick is Wrong

I’ve been a student of politics for a long time and learned early on that to truly understand anything you have to invest the time to read both the left and the right. I began a daily analysis of...

Oct 9, 2016, 7:05 PM

Looking for a Panacea

Those of us who place ourselves somewhat left of center squarely in the Democratic Party here in America and in the Zionist Union or the more liberal Meretz Party in Israel have been chasing peace and a two state...

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About Me

Larry Snider is President of the Interfaith Community for Middle East Peace, an NGO based in Philadelphia that brings the faiths together to learn about and from each other and to build a new constituency for Middle East Peace.