Mahmoud Abbas delivers fiery anti-Israel speech at UN, accuses Jewish state of ethnically cleansing east Jerusalem; FM Lieberman walks out during address, blasts Palestinian leader’s ‘speech of incitement’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations on Friday to recognize a state for his people, accusing Israel of engaging in ethnic cleansing in his United Nations speech.
Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Abbas accused Israel of employing an “ethnic cleansing policy” in Jerusalem.
“Israel issues building permits to settlers so they can build in occupied Jerusalem, while it keeps confiscating lands in eastern Jerusalem
and driving away Palestinians from their ancestral lands,” he said in his address.
“Now, after the Arab springs emphasized their desire for liberty, it’s time for a Palestinian spring – the moment of independence,” he said. "I do not believe that anyone with a shred of conscience can reject our application for a full membership in the United Nations and our admission as an independent state," Abbas told the General Assembly, which gave him a standing ovation.
"Our people will continue their popular, peaceful resistance," Abbas declared, while slamming Israel's settlement policy. "This (settlement) policy will destroy the chances of achieving a two-state solution and ... threatens to undermine the structure of the Palestinian National Authority and even end its existence.
"Sixty-three years after the Nakba, I say enough, enough, enough,” the Palestinian leader said. “It’s time for the Palestinian people to get their liberty, and for the suffering of millions of Palestinian refugees to end.”
Abbas gestures during his UN speech (Photo: EPA)
Abbas said that the Palestinians "extend our hands to the Israeli government and the Israeli people."
Shortly before his speech, the PA leader handed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon a letter requesting full UN membership, which the Security Council must consider - although this may take some time.
Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, walked out in protest during Abbas’ address. He later told Ynet that the Palestinian leader delivered a “speech of incitement” that included “harsh threats.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present during Abbas’ speech to begin with.
Abbas: No to Jewish state
On Friday afternoon, Abbas said he was adamant about not recognizing Israel as the Jewish state.
"They talk to us about the Jewish state, but I respond to them with a final answer: We shall not recognize a Jewish state," Abbas said in a meeting with some 200 senior representatives of the Palestinian community in the US, shortly before taking the podium and delivering a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
The Palestinian leader, who appeared fatigued, shared with his audience the global pressures exerted on him in an effort to prevent him from presenting the PA's statehood bid at the Security Council. "We are withstanding these pressures, and I'm telling you that I am going to the Security Council and will never change my mind, regardless of the pressure," he said.
"The American administration did everything possible so that we don't approach the UN, yet we are continuing with this important move," Abbas said, adding that peace talks with Israel are facing an impasse and presenting his conditions for the resumption of negotiations.
"We are saying once again that without Netanyahu's declaration that he recognizes the state of Palestine within the 1967, as well as a declaration on and implementation of a settlement freeze, we shall not return to negotiations and we shall not allow the presence of settlers and an occupation army in Palestine," he said.
Meanwhile, Hamas said Friday that Palestinians should liberate their land, not beg for recognition at the United Nations, firmly rejecting President Abbas' quest for statehood. Speaking hours before Abbas was due to ask formally that the UN recognize a Palestinian state, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said this would not bring independence.
"Our Palestinian people do not beg for a state. ...States are not built upon UN resolutions. States liberate their land and establish their entities," Haniyeh said.
Poster Comment:
This asshole basically declared a state inside Israel. He is inciting violence. Maybe Israel should send him to an early grave. Oh wait he has already been here to long.
Its a game Stone..... The Globalists run both these cut out nations. Israel Masonic Judiciary ensures they stay on the lease....and do...as the Company Commands.
Decades ago...Netanyahu was PM,....and he gave away Hevron. Nearly all of Israels leaders since Levy Eshkol have yielded to the Globalist Architects. Israels leaders always talk so tough,....and then comply...yield when ordered to. There's no Plass stinian State,..cuz the Globalists don't want that yet..or maybe ever. They have J'Lem....already signed away by Shimon Peres. Israel is one of their pit bulls,....ie....If*..The Globalists want to attack Iran and change the ME,...Israel might get the nod.
Terror for ever more......Amen,.... on the playbook binders cover.
Unless Israel terminates the Masonic links and puts a Levy Eshkol in the driver seat,...they will continue to do....as the Company Commands.
The UN is a joke,.....they recognized Stalins security concerns/boundrys...let him have eastern Europe,....but they still do not recognize Israels territorial concerns...which exist in area...because the Arabs attacked them and lost. Stalin kept all the territory he obtained in War,...and the UN recognized that. Israel gets attacked...gains land that the Arabs loose in war,....and then gives it back.
This asshole basically declared a state inside Israel.
It is only fair since Israel declared a state inside Palestine. Oh, and you changed the title of the article to show your insanity which once again shows why you represent the a failed American political movement.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
