U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited the scorn of the world with his announcement last week that Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country to attend the meeting this month of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. The move prompted the predictable outrage from critics of President Donald Trump for not playing by the rules of international behavior the foreign-policy establishment has laid down. It’s also the subject of a more serious debate about whether the decision violates the 1947 agreement made between the United States and the headquarters of the United Nations since that accord was passed by the U.S. Senate as a treaty, and therefore, has the force of law.

But the revocation of visas to P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas and the res

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