Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday gave Israel just one 12 months to withdraw from the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, together with East Jerusalem.
“With out this situation being met, the Palestinian recognition of Israel on the 1967 borders could be questionable,” he indicated in a recorded assertion aired earlier than the United Nations Common Meeting (UNGA)’s 76th session in New York.
“This can be a second of reality with the occupying energy. We’re at a crossroads. We’ve got had sufficient time. This example can not proceed, and our folks can not endure it any longer,” he expressed.
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He added: “We’re able to work all through this 12 months on the delineation of borders and fixing all closing standing points below the auspices of the worldwide Quartet and in accordance with United Nations resolutions. If this isn’t achieved, why ought to we maintain recognising Israel based mostly on the 1967 borders?”
Abbas continued: “Our folks won’t give up to the fact of the occupation and its unlawful insurance policies and practices. They are going to pursue their simply wrestle to fulfil their proper to self-determination, and all choices can be found, together with returning to an answer based mostly on the US Resolution 181 adopted in 1947, which provides the State of Palestine 44 per cent of the world of Palestine, double the area supplied on the 1967 borders.”
The PA president confused that the Palestinians: “Will go to the Worldwide Court docket of Justice because the supreme worldwide judicial physique on the problem of the legality of the occupation of the land of the state of Palestine. We’ve got prolonged our palms repeatedly for peace, and nonetheless, we can not discover a associate in Israel that believes in and accepts the two-state resolution.”
In the meantime, he blamed the worldwide neighborhood for Israel’s incapacity to recognise the Palestinian state and ignoring Palestinian companions.
“Undermining the two-state resolution based mostly on worldwide regulation and UN resolutions will open the best way for different options imposed on us by the state of affairs on the bottom because of the continuation of the Israeli occupation of our state,” Abbas warned.
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With this 12 months marking the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, Abbas recounted: “Greater than half the Palestinian folks have been uprooted from their land and disadvantaged of their property in that point. Myself, my household and lots of others nonetheless possess the deeds to our land. These deeds are registered as a part of the United Nations’ information.”
He additionally blamed the dearth of motion by the US and its our bodies to discourage Israel, asserting that this resulted in: “A failure to carry Israel accountable and sanction it for its violations of worldwide regulation, permitting Israel, which claims to be a democratic state, to behave as a state above the regulation.”
He concluded: “I reiterate but once more that the Palestinian folks will defend their existence and identification and won’t kneel or give up, they won’t depart and can stay on their land defending it, defending their destiny and pursuing their nice journey in direction of ending the occupation of the land of the State of Palestine and its capital East Jerusalem.”
