Muasher, who now directs the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East research program, this week published a paper that advocates leveraging the power of regional Arab diplomacy to make Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts succeed. As one of the architects of the Arab Peace Initiative, Muasher says the plan could offer Israel not only normalized relations with the entire Arab world, but extremely valuable security guarantees from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Syria.

I spoke with Dr. Muasher today about his approach.

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