This discussion, joined by Al-Shabaka policy fellow Tareq Baconi and policy analysts Mouin Rabbani and Rashid Khalidi examine the impact of shifting alliances and regional instability in the Middle East on the next US administration’s approach to the Palestine-Israel conflict. Weeks from the US presidential elections, this timely discussion explores the Gulf’s unspoken alliance with Israel against Iran, the Syrian crisis, and ISIS, and the changing dynamics in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, as well as the importance of natural gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean.