For the second year in a row, the US government under President Donald Trump has denied diplomatic visas for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials — a move condemned by the PA and outside critics as counter to international peace efforts.

Abbas, who leads both the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), was to attend meetings at the United Nations in New York City next week, but the move by the US State Department means he will have to deliver remarks and participate in meetings via video link.

In a statement, the foreign ministry of the PA called the refusal of visas “an unjustified measure that runs counter to efforts to rebuild trust, develop Palestinian-US relations, and create the necessary political climate for implementing the two-state solution and achieving peace and stability.”

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[–] 67 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Why is the UN still in the US?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Trump wants nothing more than for the UN to leave and fade into obscurity.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Leaving does not mean it fades into obscurity. That alone is an American centric view.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    What does the UN actually do, though? All I ever hear are resolutions and rules that no one follows.

    Edit: Downvoted for asking a question.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    UNICEF : provides humanitarian and developmental aid to children and mothers worldwide UNRWA : provide aids to provide direct assistance, education, health care, and social services to millions of registered Palestine refugees UNESCO : provides direct financial grants to maintain cultural heritage

    There are useless part in the UN like the security council and resolutins but some entities are definitely important to maintain

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    There are useless part in the UN like the security council

    That's largely because the worst violators have permanent seats on the SC, and hold a veto that they frequently use.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    USA is a terrorist state and must be dismantled.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Lmao, saying death to America isn't advocating violence, mod. America is a country and should be sanctioned out of existence and balkanized.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    How the fuck is this valid? The UN HQ and surrounding land should be should be a principality allowing anyone to go there.

    Petty US government bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The USA wants total control, because a permanent seat wasn't enough and they think WWIII is impossible.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Nope, it wants anarchy. They want to destroy America and the Union so that they can take over and create a fascist theocracy using their mindboggling wealth and influence in order to never have to bother with elections or rule of law again.

    When they talk about the "good old times" they're talking about the 1600s.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    This is fucking horrible. Surely the UN has some pull to get these people in?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What's funny is that Abbas is a Zionist bootlicker who does whatever he's told but even that isn't enough humiliation for the Epstein class.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    even that isn't enough humiliation for the Epstein class

    Well, naturally. Epstein was a mossad asset. Anyone who's been to one of his parties, Israel has so much kompromat on, they'll do whatever's necessary to appease their masters.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Cuba Once Again Denies American Officials Visas to Attend Guantánamo Torture

    Oh no wait. Can we all agree that the UN should not be within US borders or under US jurisdiction. If that means moving it, so be it.

    But the UN as an organisation is arguably acting as intended as a purpose-built tool to impose the hegemony of the US, UK, Russia and China

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Death to US imperialism and US-led genocide.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    Boycott America I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    America Israel first

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    Europe should make their own U.N.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    pathetic behaviour from the epstein network regime once again

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Traitors are not respect neither by the colonized and neither by the colonizers and their enablers

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