Netanyahu and Abbas Share a Moment at a Party

The Israeli and Palestinian Authority leaders visited the United Nations Headquarters in New York last month for the yearly general assembly. During the time they spent in the United States, both political leaders had “no contact or interaction whatsoever”, an undisclosed source told The Freudian Slip. However, when they attended a party held by supposedly mutual friend Ban Ki Moon, witnesses say they “had a moment”.

At the party, the undisclosed source claims that the two leaders didn’t acknowledge each other, and only occasionally peaked over to see whether the other prime minister was having fun while stirring their drinks. This behavior continued until “Bibi and Abbas went for the same glass of Arak, believing they had a historical and religious connection to it.”

Reaching for the Middle-Eastern drink, their hands shortly touched. What followed was a prolonged moment of eye-contact. According to our source, “they got lost in each other’s eyes… they looked at each other as if they had found the answers to all of their questions, as if their entire life led them to that moment.” Realizing people were noticing them, they quickly looked away. Both Netanyahu and Abbas quietly smiled, and our source claims that Netanyahu broke the silence by telling Abbas to “go ahead.” Abbas responded by asking if he was sure, joking about how “there is a two-drink solution to this,” but Netanyahu insisted. Shortly after, Netanyahu left the party.

The following day was a very uncomfortable day at the UN. Predictably, Netanyahu and Abbas saw each other everywhere; outside the bathroom, at the cafeteria, next to the UN podium. “They kept trying to pretend to be talking to people around them or looking at their phones in order to avoid each other”, said our source, “At some point Bibi got so desperate he tried to start up a conversation with the Iranian UN representative… that was weird.”

Unfortunately, the tension remained unresolved. Netanyahu and Abbas returned to the Middle-East, and our source claims that they both “will continue to avoid each other, since, unlike the green line, this is a line that neither of them are willing to cross.”

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