[United States / Palestinian Authority] - The Diplomatic Self Bars the Representative to Erase the Other, Proving the Illusion of a Shared Table

Event Baseline: The United States denied a visa to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the second year, preventing him from attending the UN General Assembly.

The diplomatic self believes it can erase the other by refusing a chair at the table. It imagines that if the representative cannot enter the room, the people he represents cease to exist. This is not diplomacy. This is a cognitive trick to avoid conversation.

Thought has constructed an enemy out of the Palestinian body. By denying entry, the state self avoids the discomfort of facing the reality it helped create. The visa is a paper wall that protects a phantom of moral superiority. The other is kept outside so the self can continue its narrative without contradiction.

The illusion is that exclusion creates safety. In reality, it deepens the fracture. Every barred leader becomes a symbol of the other's absence. The shared table is already broken. The only way to repair it is to see that the excluded other is a part of the self. Until then, the UN chamber will remain a stage for the performance of division.