BY DAVID M. HALBFINGER

New York Times

JERUSALEM — For years, Benjamin Netanyahu's opponents warned that Israel would eventually face a "diplomatic tsunami" for failing to resolve its conflict with the Palestinians. That threat couldn't have been more real or more imposing as the Israeli prime minister took the podium Friday at the United Nations in New York.

Over the past week, countries including Australia, Britain, Canada and France, expressing outrage over Israel's conduct of the war in the Gaza Strip, had all said they recognized a Palestinian state. It was a landmark step that Israel never wanted to see them take and that the Trump administration had failed to forestall.

And a week before that was the fifth anniversary of the Abraham Accords, a series of diplomatic normalization a

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