For the second year in a row, the US government under President Donald Trump has denied diplomatic visas for Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian officials — a move condemned by the PA and outside critics as counter to international peace efforts. Abbas, who leads both the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), was to attend meetings at the United…

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[–] 60 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Why is the UN still in the US?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    How the fuck is this valid? The UN HQ and surrounding land should be should be a principality allowing anyone to go there.

    Petty US government bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    The USA wants total control, because a permanent seat wasn't enough and they think WWIII is impossible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Nope, it wants anarchy. They want to destroy America and the Union so that they can take over and create a fascist theocracy using their mindboggling wealth and influence in order to never have to bother with elections or rule of law again.

    When they talk about the "good old times" they're talking about the 1600s.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    USA is a terrorist state and must be dismantled.

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    Lmao, saying death to America isn't advocating violence, mod. America is a country and should be sanctioned out of existence and balkanized.

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This is fucking horrible. Surely the UN has some pull to get these people in?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Cuba Once Again Denies American Officials Visas to Attend Guantánamo Torture

    Oh no wait. Can we all agree that the UN should not be within US borders or under US jurisdiction. If that means moving it, so be it.

    But the UN as an organisation is arguably acting as intended as a purpose-built tool to impose the hegemony of the US, UK, Russia and China

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Death to US imperialism and US-led genocide.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    What's funny is that Abbas is a Zionist bootlicker who does whatever he's told but even that isn't enough humiliation for the Epstein class.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    even that isn't enough humiliation for the Epstein class

    Well, naturally. Epstein was a mossad asset. Anyone who's been to one of his parties, Israel has so much kompromat on, they'll do whatever's necessary to appease their masters.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Boycott America I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    America Israel first

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    pathetic behaviour from the epstein network regime once again

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Traitors are not respect neither by the colonized and neither by the colonizers and their enablers

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Europe should make their own U.N.

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