While formal diplomatic relations between Israel and Arab Gulf countries may be new, the two locales have long been intertwined, both through metonymies of development, and through economies of migration. These entanglements first date to the migration of Palestinian teachers and laborers to the Gulf following the Balfour Declaration of 1917, accelerating through the 1930s and the tragedy of the 1948 Nakba. They have continued, however, in the ethos of expansion via administrative and technological transformation. These transformations are common to Zionist Israel as a settler colonialist state ‘making the desert bloom,’ and to the Gulf countries as petro-capitalist enclaves which through processes of state formation have also, in their own way, thoroughly transformed the lived experience of the desert. Considering Palestine/Israel and the Arab Gulf comparatively, this paper thematizes the neologism of “solastalgia,” first coined by environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, as a point of entry into a kaleidoscopic view of ecological catastrophe and loss of home across sites of sociopolitical privilege and deprivation. Albrecht defines solastalgia as feelings of nostalgia and fear for a home that is slowly lost to irrevocable, anthropogenic climate change effects. However, while solastalgia frequently refers to loss of home through climate effects alone, this paper transposes the term to encompass the affective experience of loss of home through any factor related to the sources of climate change – that is, to irrevocable (and inherently anthropogenic) forms of petro-capitalist and settler-colonial development. In this way, the paper reads the slow yet violent destruction of the beloved landscape(s) of home and resulting solastalgia as an affective texture common to Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab Gulf writing. The feelings-of-body generated by the ongoing settler colonial project in the West Bank, as articulated in the memoiristic, non-fiction writing of Palestinian lawyer Raja Shehadah, thus emerge as eerily familiar to those of legendary Miteb al-Hadhdhal in ‘Abd al-Rahman Munif’s Cities of Salt quintet. However, given the general invisibility of such processes within sites of privilege, it argues that Israeli author Assaf Gavron’s Hydromania necessarily resorts to futuristic dystopia in order to craft similar feelings-of-body so as to render solastalgia imaginable for beneficiary groups in beneficiary societies. Together, these texts paint a picture of the human form facing unfolding ecological catastrophe as the ultimate, indeed defining late liberal affect.