#A huge triumph for Israel, Bibi — and Trump

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President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu while unveiling his Middle East peace plan in January 2020.
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President Trump just brokered the most important Middle East deal in years: a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

The announcement was made Thursday by Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. Dubbed the Abraham Accord, it puts the two nations on the road to full normalization of ties — a first for the Jewish state and a Gulf Arab nation.

They’ll sign agreements on issues, including investment, tourism, technology and culture. And Israel will have to ditch plans to annex certain areas in the West Bank. “Israel will suspend declaring sovereignty” over areas in Trump’s peace plan “to focus on improving its ties with the rest of the Arab world,” reads the agreement.

That key concession would never have been possible unless Trump and Bibi had moved toward annexation in the first place. That is, they created a bargaining chip that they then gave up in the cause of peace — despite the fact that many Israelis see annexing land as the wisest course.

Even Trump’s election-year rival admitted it’s “a historic step,” though Joe Biden’s statement didn’t mention the president who made it happen. Indeed, Biden tried to take credit himself, saying the deal “builds on the efforts of multiple administrations,” including “the Obama-Biden” team.

Well, actually he’s right — in a way: It was his administration’s ill-advised Iran nuclear deal that gave the murderous mullahs billions of dollars to spend on terrorism. The increased threat from Iran brought Israel and most Arab nations closer together in fear of their common enemy, though that isn’t exactly what Team Obama intended.

Thursday’s agreement also makes a mockery of claims by Democrats and the foreign-policy establishment who predicted dire consequences when Trump announced he was moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. What happened instead is that now a third Arab nation has agreed to make peace with the Jewish state, pushing it ever closer to its dream of universal acceptance.

How ironic: President Barack Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize even though he emboldened nuke-seeking terror state Iran and left the Middle East in shambles. Trump isn’t progressive enough for Oslo’s Nobel elitists, but with this deal alone, he’s done more for peace in the Middle East than anything Obama ever did.