(Doug Mills | The New York Times) President Donald Trump, with officials from Israel and United Arab Emirates, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 13, 2020. "The agreement brokered by the Trump administration for the United Arab Emirates to establish full normalization of relations with Israel, in return for the Jewish state forgoing, for now, any annexation of the West Bank, was exactly what Trump said it was in his tweet: 'a HUGE breakthrough'," writes New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman.