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Arab American Leaders Say Their Private Meeting With Blinken Was a Failure

A Friday night meeting between Arab American leaders and Secretary of State Antony Blinken left leaders more than unsatisfied.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media in Israel. Evelyn Hockstein/AP

Following a Friday night meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Arab American leaders, attendees of the sit-down had a simple message: enough.

“In Arabic, we say ‘khallas,’” Warren David, president of Arab America, told NOTUS, using the Arabic word that translates to finished, enough or done.

David was one of almost a dozen representatives from six Arab American organizations who attended the meeting. And he told NOTUS there doesn’t appear to be anything the Biden administration could do at this point to salvage its fractured relationship with the Arab American community.