Like all his recent speeches to the annual UN General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Sept. 27 address to the international forum successfully concealed the Palestinian issue behind the Iranian bomb.

Netanyahu has made it a habit to lash out in such speeches at Western Europeans for allying with Tehran and at the same time embrace the Arab states that fellow victims of the Iranian menace. Netanyahu told the UNGA that the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran had brought Israel and many Arab states “closer than ever, in an intimacy and friendship that I’ve not seen in my lifetime and would have been unimaginable a few years ago.”

Netanyahu also expressed his hope that “the day will soon arrive when Israel will be able to expand peace, a formal peace, beyond Egypt and Jordan to other Arab neighbors, including the Palestinians.”

The key challenge is not to come up with solutions satisfactory to both sides, while getting them to give these ideas serious consideration. On Sept. 26, US President Donald Trump appeared to adopt the two-state solution when he stood side-by-side with Netanyahu in New York. However, his decision to relocate the US Embassy to Jerusalem this past May and his more recent decision to cut aid to the Palestinians and close the PLO offices in Washington have shattered Palestinian faith in the United States as an honest broker.