...boodling on the grand scale...
confab in person.
US President Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
reportedly rejected a request from Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
to meet last week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Citing US and Paleostinian sources, the Axios news site reported Wednesday that Abbas and his aides inquired about the prospect of a meeting with Biden when considering whether to attend the annual gathering.
The Paleostinians were told by the White House that Biden wouldn’t hold any bilateral meetings while in New York and was also unavailable to meet in Washington, according to the report, which said this message contributed to Abbas’s decision not to address the General Assembly in person and instead speak remotely by video.
The White House would not comment on the report, which noted Biden held several bilateral meetings during his brief stay in New York.
Biden has not made the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict a top foreign policy priority since taking office. In his speech to the UN last week, Biden reiterated his support for the two-state solution but did not call for an immediate resumption of Israeli-Paleostinian peace talks.
His administration has instead been encouraging efforts to "advance peace" and Hady Amr, deputy assistant secretary of state for Israel and Paleostinian Affairs, is due to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah next week, the Axios report said.
In his own UN speech, Abbas demanded Israel withdraw to the so-called 1967 lines within a year or face repercussions, while Prime Minister Naftali Bennett omitted the Paleostinians altogether in his address to the General Assembly.