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2021-10-11 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Despite formal boycott, PA engages with officials from US embassy in Jerusalem
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[IsraelTimes] Abbas has been meeting with senior embassy personnel, but Paleostinian official says policy unchanged and Ramallah won’t meet local US diplomats until consulate reopened
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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....
has been meeting with senior US officials based out of the embassy in Jerusalem in recent months, despite ordering his own diplomats not to do so, officials in Washington and Ramallah have confirmed to The Times of Israel.
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The shift in policy began shortly after the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft
 ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
announced that it would reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem, which historically served as a de facto mission to the Paleostinians. Diplomats in the office worked closely with Paleostinian counterparts in Jerusalem until former president Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
recognized the city as Israel’s capital in 2017 and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the flashpoint city five months later.
The PA severed ties with the Trump administration, which went on to shutter its Jerusalem consulate. While the State Department described the move as an efficiency measure, it was seen by many as effectively downgrading relations with the Paleostinians; diplomats who work with the PA were placed under the aegis of the US Embassy to Israel as part of a department known as the Paleostinian Affairs Unit.
But diplomats in the unit have been limited in their work as Paleostinian officials have been barred from meeting with them for the past two years.
Washington and Ramallah have renewed contact since US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity, except maybe for abandoning Afghanistan...
took office, but the directive regarding the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which Abbas branded a "settlement outpost," has remained in place, and US officials in the unit have had little official contact with Ramallah-based counterparts. Instead, senior Paleostinian officials liaised with the Biden administration via Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Paleostinian Affairs Hady Amr, who is based in Washington, according to PA officials.
The inability to engage the Paleostinians from Jerusalem frustrated US officials during the May 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
war, one official familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel, acknowledging criticism that Washington was slower to act as the violence broke out.
Days after the war, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the region and notified then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas that Biden would be moving forward with his campaign promise to reopen the Jerusalem consulate.
In addition, Blinken dispatched the former head of that mission, Michael Ratney, to Jerusalem to serve as charge d’affaires of the embassy until a full-time ambassador arrives. Ratney has longstanding ties with senior members of the PA and leveraged those relations to urge Abbas to end his boycott of the US embassy, an official familiar with the matter said.
Since May, Abbas has met privately in Ramallah with Ratney and Paleostinian Affairs Unit Chief George Noll several times to discuss the advancement of US-Paleostinian bilateral ties, US and Paleostinian officials confirmed to The Times of Israel.
Ratney and Noll also accompanied Amr in visits with Abbas and PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh in Ramallah this week.
"Abbas recognizes that the Biden administration is serious about improving relations and while he’d like to see the consulate opened yesterday, he’s taking a more practical approach," an official familiar with the matter explained. "He recognizes that he still needs the US at this moment."
Abbas is trying to drag the PA out of a financial crisis intensified by the pandemic and is facing growing criticism both at home and abroad over his indefinite delay of the first parliamentary election in 15 years in addition to his security forces’ crackdown on civilian protesters earlier this summer.
Abbas’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the matter, but a Paleostinian official speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
downplayed the until-now unreported development. 
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