Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a conference to support Jerusalem at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on February 12, 2023
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas urged the United Nations to suspend Israel’s membership unless it implements resolutions establishing separate Jewish and Arab states and allows the return of Palestinian refugees.
Mr Abbas spoke during the first official UN commemoration of the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel following the UN partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states 75 years ago.
Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, had sent letters to general assembly ambassadors condemning Monday’s commemoration and urging them not to attend what he called an “abominable event” and a “blatant attempt to distort history.”
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
