The Role of American Policy and Personnel in the Israeli-Emirati Deal

In the wake of the historic agreement brokered by the U.S. between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver spoke with the American national-security expert Richard Goldberg, a veteran of the National Security Council, to understand how he interprets the strategic underpinnings of the deal, the role that the Trump administration played in bringing it about, and what it reveals about America in the Middle East.

This transcript has been lightly compressed and edited.

Last week, Israel and the United Arab Emirates concluded their historic, U.S.-brokered peace agreement. Tell us how we got here.