New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- NEW YORK - Benjamin Netanyahu landed in New York on Thursday with a return flight already booked for the same night. In the roughly eight hours between, the Israeli prime minister addressed the UN General Assembly, accused delegates of swallowing a fabricated genocide, and left without ever being in the same room as Donald Trump.

That absence is the story. A year ago Netanyahu spent a week in the United States and sat with Trump in the Oval Office. This time his office listed nine leaders he would meet, five of them from Latin American states Israel has been courting as European partners fall away, and made no mention of anyone from Washington. Michael Oren, Israel's former ambassador to the US, said he could not r...