PA president slams US for supporting Israel’s war against Hamas, argues Israel should be booted from UN
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

NEW YORK — Addressing the UN General Assembly, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas slams the Biden administration for supporting Israel in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
“We regret that the US administration — the largest democracy in the world — on three occasions obstructed draft resolutions at the Security Council demanding Israel to observe a ceasefire,” Abbas says.
“The United States alone stood and said, ‘No, the fighting is going to continue. It did this by using the veto while furnishing Israel with the deadly weapons that it used to kill thousands of innocent civilians — children and women,” the PA leader laments, claiming that it encouraged Israel to “continue its aggression.”
“This is the United States — the same country that was the only member in the Security Council that voted against granting the state of Palestine full membership in the UN,” he fumes. “I don’t understand how the United States could insist on opposing our people, insist on depriving us of our legitimate rights to freedom and independence, as is the right of the rest of the countries.”
The US has argued that such unilateral measures in international forums won’t advance Palestinian statehood, which can only be secured through negotiations with Israel. Ramallah points out that Israel’s leadership rejects a two-state solution altogether and has infuriated Jerusalem by backing efforts to drag it before international legal tribunals.
Abbas argues that if anything, it is Israel that shouldn’t be allowed membership in the United Nations, pointing to Israeli officials who have called for the institution to be shut down. Those officials made this call amid frustration over what has long been seen as the anti-Israel bias of the UN’s institutions and members.
The PA leader indicated that Ramallah will submit a request to have Israel booted from the UN over its violation of various resolutions.