TEHRAN – The Trump administration announced Friday that it would reject around 80 Palestinian officials, including President Mahmoud Abbas, ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York in September. The unprecedented scope would ban most Palestinian delegations from one of the few platforms in Palestine.
The State Department justified the measure by citing Palestinian authorities’ appeal to the international court, their refusal to condemn the attack on October 7th, and their pursuit of unilateral recognition. However, the decision violates the 1947 United Nations Headquarters Agreement, requiring Washington to recognize all delegations as a host state. International law, such as diplomacy, is treated in Washington as a tool that is bent over Israel’s interests.
In a letter sent to French President Emmanuel Macron in early June 2025, Abbas wrote what Hamas had done to Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, “contrary to the US claim that Hamas had written what he had done, “is unacceptable and condemned for killing civilians and taking them hostages. He also called for the immediate release of all hostages, the dismantling of Hamas’ military capabilities, and the removal from Gaza’s powers.
Collaboration has been discarded
The ban is impressive as Palestinian authority has long served as subcontractors for Israeli occupation. Rather than a liberation movement, Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah became managers of the imposed status quo.
The so-called PA “security forces” work closely with Israel to curb resistance, arrest fighter jets, disperse protests, and maintain order while the settlements expand. The authorities collected taxes, performed services and predicted the façade of sovereignty when Israel closed its control.
Again and again, Abbas succumbs to us, demanding that Israel manage an endless “peace negotiations” without peace, a bureaucracy designed to restrain and soothe international campaign against Israel rather than resist.
His rhetoric reflected Washington’s ostensible preference for negotiations against conflict. But the moment he pursued gentle accountability, the moment he was sought for prosecution in The Hague, he and his aides were punished like enemies.
The lesson is clear. Compliance does not protect Abbas. Submission is not favored. By banning the delegation, Washington has shown that subordination does not guarantee anything. The PA’s decades of compromise have only humiliated, and trading resistance against a blank promise proves that it is a rewardless bargain.
Hypocrisy has gone naked
Washington claims that the decision protects peace, but hypocrisy is clear. In 1988, it forced Jassar Arafat to refuse a visa and the United Nations to move to Geneva so that he could speak.
In 2013, Omar Albasir in Sudan banned the ICC from indictment. However, Benjamin Netanyahu wanted the ICC for the crime of Gaza, but he dealt with Congress without any problems. The law is elective. The principle was embraced.
Timing also reveals the intention. France, the UK and Canada are preparing to recognize Palestine and have already joined nearly 150 countries. He remains preemptively silent as Washington fears Abbas will use the UN podium to press for independence. This is not diplomacy, it is an act of sabotage. This is an effort to eliminate Palestinians from global conversation, so that momentum is built for recognition.
The blank perception and overall picture of Europe
Still, European perception drives are full of contradictions. An unsovereigned perception is nothing more than a paper flag. A Palestinian “nation” lacking borders, airspace, water and economy becomes an illusion. The Western vision is one of management, not liberation. Abbas, or his select successors to mold, governs the broken enclaves while Israel sets conditions.
But even this empty gesture gives an alarm to Washington and Tel Aviv. The prohibition of visas is more than bureaucracy, an attack on the Palestinian expression itself. Again, the United States proves that it is not a mediator, but an enforcer of Israel, and its credibility is bound to a permanent occupation.
For those who believe collaboration will bring liberation, the lessons were less sharp. Decades of compliance, abandoning armed struggles for negotiations and coordinating security with the occupying, was nothing more than betrayal.
The moment Abbas sought accountability, he was dumped like a useless tool no longer. You cannot compromise on the path to freedom. Negotiations with those who decide to erase them will only lead to erase them.
By silence of Abbas, Washington has not only humiliated his flexible authority. It broadcasts light emptying against international law, the United Nations system and the voices of the Palestinians.
The United States pretends to be a defender of democracy and human rights, which is the behavior of an authoritarian bully who fears losing control. And while Palestinian delegations could be banned from the Parliament in September, their absence speaks more eloquently than any speech. Those who have been erased from the chamber praise the world for not being erased from history.