Subject: Re: Qatar air force base on American soil
It may be that the Palestinians end up getting moved from one brutal authoritarian system to another. But the second brutal authoritarian system will lack even the minor saving grace of being run by people that are from the region and have some connection (familial or otherwise) with the population there.

That's speculation. What incentive does this new, brutal authoritarian regime have? Is it motivated by wiping the Israelis off the map? What possible motivation would Qatar and the others have for that?

The Israelis have demonstrated dozens of times that they can reach out and touch whomever they want, at places and times of their choosing. Think it would be hard for them to eliminate most of the Qatari ruling hierarchy in one go? Would be beyond easy as Qatar is too small to matter. And the Egyptians have had to deal with the Palestinians and their nonsense (smuggling weapons and what not) for decades. They've also taken multiple runs at the IDF and gotten dog-walked each time. What does more chaos and misery on their border buy them?

Rather, it's just a discussion of the things that make this deal very different from what was ever on offer before, as a way of possibly explaining why this deal got to a "yes" when other ones did not.

Looking at this thread, a lot of the replies are so much soup grapes being squished between the toes of folks who just. Hate. Trump. That's irrelevant.

What IS relevant is that this deal really and truly signals that the US is back in the business of Kissinger-style Realpolitik. And that's a GOOD thing.