Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the year declaring that he stood "shoulder to shoulder" with U.S. President Donald Trump as the two countries launched a war against Iran. But this week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, there were no plans for the two men to be in the same room, or even in the same city.
As the war with Iran has dragged on, Trump and Netanyahu have split over how to prosecute it, straining a relationship between the two allies. Netanyahu has also faced global criticism both for Israel's war in Gaza and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Instead of a packed itinerary, Netanyahu, who arrived in New York on Thursday, was to meet only a handful of leaders before giving his speech.
