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I'll pose a hypothetical: what if the other ME states really don't give a whit about the Pals or Gaza? What if they were all bought off by Trump, using means that have nothing to do with Gaza? Trump putting himself in charge of that body, rather than the body being selected by the UN, alone, should be a huge red flag. What if the fix is in that the other parties commit to rubber stamping anything Trump wants in Gaza, without a thought to anyone else?
It's a possibility, but I think it's a little unlikely. I don't think the other ME states really trust that Trump could make that work, and I suspect Trump doesn't want the headache of trying to make that work. Honestly, I suspect he'd much rather have Egypt take over Gaza again, repress Hamas and any other Palestinian militants the way they do the Muslim Brotherhood, and just make his money developing whatever piece of the action he has El-Sisi give him.
They're happy to let Trump pick the Board of Peace because they absolutely do not trust the UN to pick it (and neither does Israel). They know that Trump will fill it with the sort of people that like the way that the authoritarian states in the ME are run, because those are the people that folks like Trump can cut deals with.
I think you're misreading the direction that the fix runs. The ME countries know that Trump only cares about the economics/transactional side of it, and isn't going to care one carp about the decisions of the Board of Peace other than the ones that affect his business interests. Everything else is fair game. So that's the fix - they buy off Trump with the economic matters, and they get to run the area how they see fit as long as they don't step on what Trump views as important to him/U.S.
