(Israel suffered major embarrassment when Benjamin Netanyahu was shunned on stage at the UNGA. He had to stand there while delegates poured out of the main assembly hall to the cheers and applause of the people in the observation balcony. The video of this treatment went viral and it is sure to have been all over Israeli TV with their election just weeks away. Now combine that shame with the fact that no one of any consequence would take the time to meet with him while in New York. So much so, he went wheels up on their plane less than 8 hours after he touched down. Persona non grata indeed. Humiliating doesn't do it justice for a man who just a couple weeks ago was campaigning on him being able to totally control the United States and therefore the world by extension. He must have been livid the whole back to his shithole country where his former fans are now feeling like he is making Israel a pariah to the world.)
from Daily Sabah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in New York Thursday for a whirlwind, less-than-eight-hour visit to the UNGA, highlighting Israel's deepening diplomatic isolation amid ongoing wars on Gaza and Lebanon, and expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In stark contrast to his week-long trip last year, Netanyahu’s compressed schedule included no meetings with U.S. President Donald Trump, key American political figures, or leaders from major Western European allies.
The lack of top-level U.S. engagement reflects increasingly strained ties between Israel and its traditional international partners ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 general election.
A planned meeting in New York with billionaire Elon Musk was also canceled, leaving the Israeli leader without any high-profile U.S. engagements on his agenda.
Israel's former ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, said he could not recall a time when an Israeli prime minister visited the U.S. without meeting the president, describing this as a blow for Netanyahu ahead of Israel's Oct. 27 general election.
"It's a campaign speech. Now it would be much better if that campaign speech were accompanied by a meeting with the president, or another world leader, or at least the secretary of state, but apparently it's not," said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington.
"I don't recall a time when the prime minister came to the United States and didn't meet with the president ... So I'm sure that he was disappointed by that."
Alon Liel, a retired ambassador and former director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, offered an even harsher assessment of the prime minister's brief stopover.
"Never before has there been such a humiliating visit to the UN for an Israeli prime minister," Liel said.
"Netanyahu can meet with Argentine and Greek leaders, but he cannot meet with any American politician or official. That means not only Europeans, but Americans are running away from him too," he added.
"I think this is the big blow; because the U.S. is the only country in the world where Netanyahu could go. Now he has fallen into a situation where he does not feel comfortable even in the U.S., unable to even stay overnight in New York," he said.
Liel added that Netanyahu is behaving "like a persona non grata even in the U.S." during an extraordinary period of international pressure...
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