United Nation General Assembly

last week was a busy week in the UN: speeches from head of nations ,meetings and actions etc... lots of conclusions  and comments  written or said in the media ..but reading body language and handshakes of different leaders at a  glance  we can have hints on kind of the relations between different  leaders  .

 Highlights  on the 2 meetings of President Trump  with President Sissi and president Netanyahu the handshakes can just give indication of support , but is  the support  given to the Israel prime-minister Netanyhueu is the same ? lets have simple comparison between the 2 handshakes

with Netanyahu:

here is the type of handshake indicates that Trump gives full support to Netanyahu giving him the control as seen in this illustrative image ->

here Trump's palm take the submissive position and Netanyahu's palm is the dominant one the nonverbal message that trump gives is I support all your actions with no conditions (submission) no need for a proper eye contact trump looks in the space not in Netanyahu's eyes 

with president Al-Sissi:

On the other hand this handshake between trump an president Al-Sissi where both hands in vertical position no submissive palm or dominant hand position eye contact between both president is there

this is what we call proper handshake both have mutual respect to each other transmitted by this type of handshake as explained in this image ->

although Netanyahu had the dominant handshake towards Trump but with Al-Sissi  

 was proper handshake as demostrated below 

perfect eye contact proper handshake (man to man handshake )so it's mutual respect but no submission and no one is dominating the other

nevertheless there was an attempt to have the dominant handshake but this was opposed by the president Al-Sissi to a proper handshake 

 If we can read the details of people body language we can have more insight  about people personalties , feelings and intentions even if their speeches  are different 

from these photos we can say that trump support Israel unconditionally but on the other hand he respects the Egyptian's leader for his effort against terrorism and as he said EGYPT will have the full support of the United States in fighting terrorism !!! is-it an unconditional /or full support  ? 

from a simple analysis of one gesture like handshakes you can have a clear answer to this question 

Shadia Metwally