Donald Trump’s greatest foreign-policy achievement came out of nowhere. On August 13, 2020, with essentially no advance warning or leaks, the president announced on Twitter that Israel was establishing diplomatic and trade relations with the United Arab Emirates, a wealthy Middle Eastern country that had previously rejected the Jewish state’s right to exist. “HUGE breakthrough today!” Trump wrote. “Historic Peace Agreement between our two GREAT friends, Israel and the United Arab Emirates!” After this declaration, the diplomatic dominoes fell in rapid succession; other Arab states joined what became known as the Abraham Accords, culminating in a signing ceremony at the White House one month later.

Less remembered is what the Accords prevented: Israeli annexation of the West Bank. In excha

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