Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas condemned the United Nations in a speech to the General Assembly on Friday, asserting that U.N. bodies had passed “hundreds” of resolutions condemning Israel but had not taken any actions that Palestinian leaders considered sufficient to come to their aid.
Abbas claimed that the nation of Israel is “destroying the two-state solution,” the same plan that Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid proposed on the same stage the day before, and accused Israel of a wide variety of abuses including the alleged demolition of Palestinian homes, the taking of child political prisoners, and “stealing the rain.”
“Israel does not believe in peace. It believes in imposing a status quo by force and by aggression. Therefore, we do not have an Israeli partner anymore to which we can talk,”…
