NEW YORK —
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said on
Thursday that
Middle East peace was not achievable until the Palestinians are
granted "full rights", an apparent reference to a possible
US-brokered
normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. "Whoever
thinks peace in the Middle East is possible before our people achieve their
full right is wrong," Abbas said in a speech at the UN General Assembly.
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Abbas criticized Israeli's "
racist right-wing government" for its occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
"Those who think that peace can prevail in the Middle
East without the Palestinian people enjoying their full legitimate and national
rights would be mistaken," he said
He continued, "As I stand before you here, the Israeli
racist right-wing government continues its attacks on our people, and through
its army and its racist terrorist settlers, continues to intimidate and kill
our people, destroy homes and property, steal our money and resources, and
detain the bodies of the martyrs. This is being done in full view of the world,
and without any deterrence, punishment, or accountability, and the leaders and
ministers of this government have even been bragging about their
apartheid policies on our people under occupation."
Abbas emphasized the Israeli government's practice of
"assaulting our Islamic and Christian sacred sites" in Jerusalem,
including "feverishly digging tunnels under and around Al-Aqsa Mosque,
threatening its collapse."
In an appeal to the UN member states,
Abbas called on the U.S. and European States to recognize Palestine and for the UN to grant
Palestine full-membership status. It also called for resolutions to protect
Palestinians from "the constant aggression of the occupation army and the
terrorist Israeli settlers."
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