Abbas calls on UN to suspend Israel, says all Palestinian refugees “will return”

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UN on May 15, 2023, as the UN for the first time commemorated “Nakba Day,” marking “the catastrophe” - the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: “The Palestinian narrative regarding the Nakba, and the Palestinian issue in general, has begun to carve its way into the consciousness of the peoples and states, which have begun to expose the fictitious Israeli narrative… It [Israel] still denies the Nakba, and refuses the international decisions on the return of the Palestinian refugees to their homes and cities and villages, from which they were expelled by force and intimidation … Therefore, we are asking you today, officially, according to international law and international resolutions, to oblige Israel to respect these decisions of yours, or to suspend its membership in the United Nations... It [Israel] took upon itself to recognize and to implement [Resolutions] 181 and 194 in order to become a member of the United Nations… There are refugees, they will return. I am a refugee, a Palestinian refugee. I want to return to my city, my brother, I can’t live even if you give me Paris or New York… I don't agree, I want Safed (i.e., an Israeli city).”

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