As Donald Trump tours the Middle East adding to his wealth and unleashing his now customary storm of random announcements, Israel is starting to look as though it has been sidelined.

Trump’s lavender-carpeted tour is unfolding against a background of three conflicts with one thing in common: they all involve nations with nuclear weapons.

As people die daily in Gaza, Ukraine and on the Indian-Pakistani border, looming in the background are the nuclear arms of Israel, Russia, India and Pakistan.

One of the many announcements Trump made recently, swamped by the theatrics of Canadian PM Carney’s visit, was a decision to stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen.

He said it was because the Houthis had committed not to bomb US interests. He did not mention that they did not commit to stop their missile strikes against Israel.

Trump then ended the decade-long sanctions against Syria, even though Israel considers the state a jihadist regime.

Indeed, even as he made the announcement in Riyadh, sirens were warning Israelis in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem of an incoming missile from Yemen.

From the outside, it seems the region is being reshaped with little or no input from Israel.

To add to the unreality of the times, Trump exited the stage in Riyadh to the strains of the Village People’s YMCA … strange days indeed.