It has now been almost two weeks since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined President Trump and the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on the White House lawn to sign a peace and normalization agreement between the two Gulf Arab countries and Israel. Several other Arab and Islamic countries are reportedly considering following suit. On the one hand, most countries recognize the strategic and economic benefit of normalization. But, on the other, decades of incitement are hard to overcome and mean any leader who reverses his country’s traditional ostracization of Israel will pay a cost to their domestic legitimacy.

That cost can be overcome, however, as part of a diplomatic bargain. In the case of Morocco, the benefits of a deal prior to the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential elections could be huge.