"The Palestinians will seek full membership in the United Nations and join 22 international organizations in response to US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in remarks at the start of a meeting with senior Palestinian leaders in Ramallah on Monday night.
Abbas elaborated on his theme from last week's Islamic Conference Organization emergency meeting in Istanbul to the effect that Israel is unworthy of international recognition...
Regarding the UN, Abbas said, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency: 'We will go once again and many times to get full membership. We are a state and an authority, and we have borders and we have the right to get the world's recognition of us.'...
Abbas said it would be disclosed on Tuesday which 22 international organizations the Palestinians would join. But that would be only the beginning, he said.
'Every Monday we will join another 22 or 30 organizations,' Abbas said. 'There are 522 organizations, and we have the right to be members of them.'...
Abbas outlined his vision for East Jerusalem, saying: 'We want east Jerusalem as the capital for Palestine and a city open to the three monotheistic religions.' Jews, he said, 'can pray there, practice their rituals and leave while the residents of Jerusalem, Muslim and Christian, stay in the city.'"