The Paleostinian Authority’s intelligence chief quietly held meetings in New York last week with counterparts from the Central Intelligence Agency, days after the Trump administration announced that it was barring entry to PA 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....
PA General Intelligence Services head Majed Faraj used the meetings to convey to the administration that while Ramallah hopes Washington will reverse the visa bans, it will continue to work to maintain stability and combat terrorism in the West Bank, a Paleostinian official and second source familiar with the matter said.
It was the latest demonstration of the PA’s efforts to remain in good standing with the Trump administration, even though the latter has spent much of its first eight months either largely ignoring Ramallah or taking measures against the PA and Paleostinians.
Faraj’s meetings, along with his entry into the US alone, showed that Washington still wants to maintain some degree of ties with the PA, at least at the security level.
Last week’s sit-downs weren’t the only ones Faraj has had in the US since President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
returned to office in January. The PA intel chief met with CIA counterparts in Langley, Virginia, in late April.
Spokespeople for Faraj and the CIA did not respond to requests for comment.
Abbas had considered removing Faraj from the post he has held since 2009 as part of a broader shakeup of the PA’s security services earlier this year, but Faraj managed to weather those initial plans.
Abbas has made several overtures to the Trump administration, hoping to avoid the breakdown in ties that took place during the president’s first term. But they have gone largely unnoticed, with Trump separating Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
from the West Bank and the broader Israeli-Paleostinian conflict as he works to end the war in the coastal enclave. Trump has not held a phone call with Abbas since returning to the White House.
The US also responded to several Western countries’ plans to recognize a Paleostinian state at a September 22 conference at the UN ahead of the General Assembly’s high-level week by issuing visa bans against some 80 Paleostinian officials.
Asked last week about the decision and whether the US views the PA as illegitimate, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration...asserted that the PA "has its own set of problems."
He highlighted Ramallah’s welfare system, which included payments to security prisoners based on the length of their sentence in Israeli jail. But Abbas signed a decree in February that ended the policy and replaced it with a new one that grants stipends strictly based on financial need. In June, the PA invited the US to certify that the new policy is now in place, though the Trump administration has yet to send a delegation to Ramallah.
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