Live updates: Trump visits Saudi Arabia to start the Middle East

The first stop was Riad. Just a few months after his new administration, the President of the United States met the King of Saudi Arabia as part of the efforts to advance the relationships with the Arab world.

From there we went to another regional capital, in which the leader of the free world gave a speech about a new vision for the Middle East.

A stopover in Israel was missing on the travel route.

The year was in 2009 and the president was Barack Obama. His decision, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had just returned in office, was not viewed as an insult. It was the beginning of what many people still see as Obama's broken relationship with Israel and in particular with the longest -reigning leader in the country.

But when President Donald Trump begins his first visit to the region in his second term, the same elephant sits in the same corner of the Oval Office. Israel is again not on the route.

Trump had blindly blindly – the talks with Iran, a contract with the Houthi rebels of Jemens and direct conversations with Hamas – Israeli civil servants are concerned that another surprise could come.

According to a source, Israeli officials tried to ask Trump's trip to Trump's trip to Trump's trip while Trump's trip. But the president poured the flickers of these hopes over last week.

Trump could have been persuaded to add a visit to his travel route if he could win a victory, be it a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, a humanitarian auxiliary plan or something else. But since Israel is geared towards expanding his war in Gaza, there are no such results.

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