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Last week, the Times columnist Thomas Friedman reported that the Biden Administration was “wrestling with whether to pursue the possibility of a U.S.-Saudi mutual security pact that would involve Saudi Arabia normalizing relations with Israel.” The pact, Friedman wrote, would entail Israeli “concessions to the Palestinians that would preserve the possibility of a two-state solution.” At first glance, the prospect appears unlikely: American-Saudi relations have been frosty since the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, in 2018, and since the departure of