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Abbas Makes Bid for Palestinian Arab State, Will Not Recognize Jewish State

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JPost – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israelis to “come to peace” on Friday after he submitted a formal request for the United Nations to recognize Palestinian statehood.

“I say to the Israelis, come to peace,” Abbas said in a speech to the UN General Assembly.

Abbas said the Palestinians would continue peaceful, popular resistance to Israeli occupation and warned that Jewish settlement construction threatens both to destroy the two-state solution and the survival of his fledgling government, the Palestinian Authority.

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