Subject: Re: Qatar air force base on American soil
We're just talking about the deal and some of the details, and why the parties (including all the other Sunni nations) think that it has enough of a chance to actually work for them to come out and support it. The key element is jettisoning any near term reversion of Gaza to Palestinian self-rule - replacing governance by Hamas or Israel with governance by the other nations in the region plus the U.S. That's why this deal is happening now, and couldn't have happened earlier.

And this is the correct deal. Don't forget that there's still the West Bank sitting there; you can't stand up an "independent Palestinian state" in one region and not the other. The Palestinians in either place would reject that.

Trump and the mideast allies played this one from all fronts very well:
https://www.wsj.com/world/midd...

Egypt and Qatar told Hayya the deal was his last chance to end the war, according to the officials. They pressed Hamas to understand that holding the hostages was becoming a strategic liability, giving Israel a source of legitimacy to keep fighting.

The next day, joined by Turkey, they warned him that if Hamas didn’t approve the plan it would be stripped of all political and diplomatic cover; Qatar and Turkey would no longer host the group’s political leadership, and Egypt would stop pressing for Hamas to have a say in Gaza’s postwar governance, the officials said.

It was enough to get Hamas to agree to release all its hostages in Gaza and sign on to the first part of Trump’s peace deal, giving up what had been its most important bargaining chip to keep a seat at the table. While modifying its acceptance with heavy caveats that reflected its concerns about the deal, Hamas had given Trump an opportunity to declare victory and set the stage for a hostage release early this week.