Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation were refused visas to enter the US to attend last week’s high-level general debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, forcing him to address the sympathetic audience through a prerecorded video. The order to ban Abbas, who has opposed violence both by Hamas and Israel’s government, came from President Donald Trump through his Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a diehard champion of the Israeli government and admirer of Prime Minist
