The spotlight for US policy in the Middle East will shift from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York to Washington, DC, where US President Donald Trump will meet with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for the fourth time in eight months.
Trump used his UNGA speech to reinforce priority themes central to his worldview, including a harsh tone on migration and scepticism about climate change, but offered little in his speech that would come close to a pragmatic game plan for tackling the world’s toughest problems.
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