What Israel, UAE and the U.S. Get From Historic Deal
Even if it matters little to Trump, future American leaders will appreciate the agreement.
The national flag of the United Arab Emirates displayed in Tel Aviv.
Photographer: Oren Ziv/picture alliance
The most important diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East in a generation meant so little to the man who first announced it on Twitter that within an hour he had moved on to tweeting about football and predicting the collapse of the United States under Joe Biden. Donald Trump, in full reelection mode, plainly doesn’t think voters will care much about the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
He’s probably right about that: In an American election cycle, foreign policy success gets only desultory attention. At the most, Trump might be able to use Thursday’s announcement to score a minor point against Biden in one of their debates.