Palestinian leader urges UN to ban Israel, says US, UK caused Nakba to ‘get rid of their Jews’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demands that Israel be suspended from the UN if it does not grant Palestinians a state and a right of return for millions of refugees’ descendants, saying Israel agreed to these steps in 1947 to join the UN.

“Forcing Israel to implement these two resolutions was a condition, a prerequisite for their membership in the UN at the time. However, sadly, certain countries — we all know we are talking about, we will mention them later — in this organization have deliberately obstructed the implementation of these resolutions in a practice that undermines justice, ethics and human values,” Abbas says, speaking at a UN event marking the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation.

“We demand today, officially, in accordance with international law and international resolutions, to make sure that Israel respects these resolutions, or suspend Israel’s membership in the UN, particularly since Israel never fulfilled its obligations and the prerequisites for its membership in this organization that they committed to implementing,” he says.

“Britain and the United States specifically bear political and ethical responsibility directly for the Nakba of the Palestinian people, because they took part in rendering our people a victim when they decided to establish and plant another entity in our historic homeland for their own colonial goals,” Abbas says. “These countries wanted to get rid of their Jews and benefit from their presence in Palestine.”