We therefore reject and condemn it in the strongest terms. This law constitutes a gross breach and real danger, both politically and legally, and reminds us of the apartheid state that existed in South Africa. This law strips them of their rights as citizens. This law discriminates against the Palestinian-Arab citizens in Israel, granting the right to selfdetermination exclusively to Jews in Israel and legislating discrimination against those Arab citizens, who constitute 20% of the population of Israel, in addition to other non-Jews who have immigrated to Israel. This law will inevitably lead to the creation of one racist State, an apartheid state, and nullifies the two-State solution. This law denies the connection of the Palestinian people to their historic homeland and dismisses their right to self-determination and their history and heritage, as well as the United Nations resolutions relevant to the Palestine question and the agreements concluded with Israel. Last July, Israel adopted a racist law that crossed all the red lines and called it the “Nation-State Law of the Jewish People”.
The Parliament also instructed me to suspend the Palestinian recognition of Israel until Israel recognizes the State of Palestine on the 4 June 1967 borders, and also instructed me to approach the international courts, including the International Criminal Court (ICC), to investigate Israel’s breaches of treaties and the Israeli occupying forces’ aggressions and settler terror against our people, our land and our holy sites. This Parliament undertook important decisions, which oblige me to review the agreements, political, economic and security alike, that have been reached with the Israeli Government, and to also review the future of the Palestinian National Authority, which has been rendered without authority. This year the Palestinian National Council, the parliament of the State of Palestine, convened and renewed the legitimacy of our national institutions through the election of a new leadership for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. I return to you today as this colonial occupation continues to suffocate us and to undermine our serious efforts to build the institutions of our cherished State, which this august General Assembly recognized in the year 2012. In these days last year, I came before you appealing for freedom, independence and justice for my oppressed people, who are suffering under Israeli occupation for more than fifty-one years. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General Assembly, Excellency, Mr. Jerusalem is not for sale and the Palestinian people’s rights are not up for bargaining In the name of God, the most merciful and beneficent.Įxcellency, Ms.
#Text of abbas speech central committee full
The full text of the speech, provided to The National below: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly "Jerusalem is not for sale," launching a scathing criticism of Israel, the United States and inaction by the UN.
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