Larry Snider

The author is president of ICMEP – Interfaith Community for Middle East Peace, an NGO based in suburban Philadelphia. He can be reached at ld.snider@yahoo.com.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks at the White House, in April 2023.

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Activists march in support of peace.

Strategic normalization

AN AERIAL view of the Temple Mount and east Jerusalem.

Pain, healing and peace


The good, the bad and the PM

Investing in peace.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington

A challenge to billionaires

'My challenge is whether a truly diverse group of game changing businessmen and women can join together to try to move Israel, the West Bank, even Gaza, the Middle East and the whole world forward.'

'My challenge is whether a truly diverse group of game changing businessmen and women can join together to try to move Israel, the West Bank, even Gaza, the Middle East and the whole world forward in one positive way.’

It ain’t easy

I don’t know how the difficult temporary status quo that existed before the murder of Israeli police officers Hail Stawi and Kamil Shnaan on Friday, July 14, on the Temple Mount can be returned.

Israeli border police officers stand guard as Palestinians pray at Lions' Gate, the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, in protest over Israel's new security measures at the Temple Mount July 20, 2017.

The ‘New Middle East’ revisited

It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that the US had a plan to win the battle against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and no plan to win the peace.

A CEMETERY in Aleppo, Syria.

Political blindness

Once upon a time I resided in a safe upper middle class haven that enabled my parents to choose to send me to a private school.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Knesset event honoring the 100 year connection of American Jewry and Israel

Building bridges in Israel and America

Peace is a goal. Peace is a mission. And peace is a difficult get in our very chaotic world.

Trump and Clinton

Fog of peace

Each unsuccessful diplomatic effort and military action pulled the dream of peace a little farther away from both peoples, who suffer the consequences of the conflict in very different ways.

L'ancien Premier ministre Itzhak Rabin

Making the puzzle spell peace

It is increasingly difficult for Israelis and Palestinians to meet, to talk and to carry on their lives together with all the physical and emotional barriers that have been constructed between them.

‘RACISM IS not me,’ this image from the Bokra Facebook page promoting coexistence proclaims in Hebrew and Arabic.

Beautiful people

Many walk the avenues of their Holy Land carrying a pain that will not subside.

Efrat settlement, West Bank

Finding a way out of the box

I searched back in 2000 for the perfect way into this war of attrition so that I could hear and even begin to understand the truths of two ancient peoples.

A Palestinian man hangs a Palestinian flag atop the ruins of a mosque, during a snow storm in West Bank village of Mufagara