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"Kerry understood that the peace
process isn't simply getting two sides
back to the negotiating table:' Kurtzer
told a crowd of 250. "It's necessary, but
not sufficient:'
Kurtzer co-authored The Peace

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Harry Kirsbaum
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JN

Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli
Peace, 1989-2011 (Cornell University
Press, 2013), a study that posits that
both sides need coddling, that presi-
dential transitions negatively affect the
peace process because the new admin-
istration wants to make its own mark,
and that the United States needs to be
as prepared and tough in negotiations
as the Israelis and Palestinians.
Kurtzer said Kerry started diplo-
macy not by pushing the two sides
into a room, but by telling them, "I'm
going to invest enough time and effort
to convince you that I'm not ready to
take no for an answer:'
Kerry has made 10-12 trips to the
region in the past year, which forces
Israelis in diplomatic circles to think
about "what they normally don't think
about:' he said. "If the secretary of
state showed up twice a year, they
would only think about the peace
process twice a year. Knowing that
Kerry is going to show up, they have to

prepare papers and come up with task-
forces. They have to decide:'
Kerry also asked the president to
appoint John Allen, a very senior
retired four-star American general,
to do an intensive study of what the
security requirements would be in a
context of peace.
He spent weeks talking to Israelis and
Palestinians under the radar, walking
the terrain and going through different
models to a point that, just recently,
Kerry asked Allen to start briefing the
two sides on what he's seen.
"Allen may make suggestions, but
the answers can only be provided by
Israelis and Palestinians:' Kurtzer said.
"He started to engage Israel on the
core security issues, perhaps the most
important single component of a suc-
cessful peace process:'
In March or April 2013, Kerry also
invited the foreign ministers of key
Arab states to try to revive the 2002
Arab Peace Initiative (API) from the
Arab Summit meeting in Beirut, which
basically said under certain circum-
stances it was ready to give Israel
the security and recognition that it
wanted.
Although Israel didn't like the lan-
guage of the API, which called for full
withdrawal from territories occupied
in 1967, agreement to the Palestinian
refugee issue and two capitals in
Jerusalem, still it was a cosmic shift in
Arab thinking. It's no longer a question
of whether Israel has the right to exist;
it's a matter of what it does with the
occupied territories.
"What Kerry did in 2013 was to
get the foreign ministers to not only
reiterate that position, but also to start
thinking on how to act on it:' Kurtzer
said. "It's not enough to wait until after
peace is achieved to provide Israel with
security recognition; start thinking
about it now."