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JL;DR SUMMARY Secretary of State Marco Rubio's recent decision to ban Palestinian Authority officials from entering the US for the UN General Assembly meeting has sparked controversy, drawing comparisons to Trump's earlier travel bans. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Israeli Palestinian ConflictMahmoud AbbasTrump AdministrationTerrorismU.S. Foreign PolicyPalestinian AuthorityPalestinian StatehoodUn General AssemblyMedia CritiqueMarco Rubio

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New York, United States
"Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country to attend the meeting this month of the U.N. General Assembly in New York."
Turmus Ayya, Jenin, Palestinian Territories
"The last line in the piece was given to the mayor of Turmus Ayya, a village in Samaria where many dual Palestinian-American citizens live, who said that it feels like Palestinians are always treated in an unjust way."
Jenin, Palestinian Territories
"The P.A. continues to subsidize terrorism in the form of its pay-for-slay program that applies to those who committed the crimes of Oct. 7, as well as to previous bloody criminal acts. He may cooperate with Israeli security forces to keep himself alive against Hamas threats, but he, too, has refused peace offers from Israel, making it clear that he will never accept one that compels them to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state, no matter where its borders could be drawn."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"That is true whether discussing those who live under the authoritarian thumb of Abbas and the P.A. in Judea and Samaria, or in Hamas-ruled Gaza."
Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories
"But it is hardly unreasonable for the administration to look at the political culture that has rejected every peace offer, including those of statehood alongside Israel."
Australia
"What Rubio has done with this ban is not so much an attempt to trip up the farcical effort by France, Britain, Canada and Australia to give a reward in the form of a sovereign state to the Palestinians for the atrocities they committed against Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, and for starting the war that followed the Hamas-led attacks on Jewish communities that took place that day. Doing everything possible to spike the renewed campaign for Palestinian statehood is, in and of itself, an important objective, since Oct. 7 is by itself glaring evidence of what the Palestinians would do if they were granted sovereignty over Judea and Samaria as well as the Gaza Strip."
Canada
"What Rubio has done with this ban is not so much an attempt to trip up the farcical effort by France, Britain, Canada and Australia to give a reward in the form of a sovereign state to the Palestinians for the atrocities they committed against Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, and for starting the war that followed the Hamas-led attacks on Jewish communities that took place that day. Doing everything possible to spike the renewed campaign for Palestinian statehood is, in and of itself, an important objective, since Oct. 7 is by itself glaring evidence of what the Palestinians would do if they were granted sovereignty over Judea and Samaria as well as the Gaza Strip."
France
"He has never done so in Arabic to his own people. The United States is right to hold him accountable and to refuse to participate in a U.N. charade in which he pretends to be the head of a non-existent state whose only practical impact will be to encourage Hamas to continue fighting and never release the hostages it still holds."

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