With the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week set to open in New York in roughly three weeks—drawing world leaders for one of the premier annual diplomatic spectacles—Israel is actively working with the Trump administration to reinstate a formal U.S. entry ban on ‘Palestinian’ Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
The diplomatic maneuver aims to ensure Abbas is once again restricted to delivering his address via recorded video from Ramallah, mirroring the precedent set last year when he was denied physical entry to the UN podium on American soil.
Facing heavy Israeli diplomatic pressure spearheaded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Abbas has turned to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking to leverage Ankara’s influence to lobby the Trump administration against imposing visa bans on the ‘PA’ delegation. As the schedule currently stands, both Netanyahu and Abbas are slated to deliver their respective General Assembly addresses on the same day, September 24—just three days following Yom Kippur.
Alongside efforts to sideline Abbas from the international stage, diplomatic officials are exploring a bilateral summit between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Donald Trump during the visit to the United States—a meeting with profound strategic weight for regional defense and sovereignty.