At UN, Abbas Threatens Israel with UN Security Resolution, Incites More Terror

On September 22, 2016, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed world leaders at the beginning of the 71st session of the UN General Assembly and announced his plan to push for a Security Council resolution that would serve as an end run around negotiating with - and therefore recognizing - a Jewish state. Also concomitant with seven decades of Palestinian Arab rejection of a Jewish state, he demanded an apology from Britain for the Balfour Declaration (that recognized the Jewish people's entitlement to a state in their historic homeland). He taunted the Obama administration not to veto his planned Security Council resolution, and continued his familiar pattern of incitement to violence, alleging Israel was "playing with fire."

In his words:

"We will therefore continue to exert all efforts for a Security Council resolution on the settlements and the terror of the settlers, and we are undertaking extensive consultations with the Arab countries and other friendly countries on this matter. We hope no one will cast a veto...

The continuation of the Israeli aggressions against our Muslim and Christian holy sites is playing with fire...

100 years have passed since the notorious Balfour Declaration, by which Britain gave, without any right, authority or consent from anyone, the land of Palestine to another people... Therefore, we ask Britain, as we approach 100 years since this notorious Declaration, to draw the necessary lessons and to bear its historic, legal, political, material and moral responsibilities for the consequences of this Declaration, including an apology to the Palestinian people for the catastrophes, miseries and injustices that it created, and to act to rectify this historic catastrophe and remedy its consequences, including by recognition of the State of Palestine.."