Abbas aka Abu Mazen, addresses the General Assembly. “Israel, which refuses to implement United Nations resolutions, does not deserve to be a member of this international organization,” Abbas said.

Israel must be stripped of United Nations membership for failing to accept a two-state resolution to the conflict and allowing the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday.

“Israel, which refuses to implement United Nations resolutions, does not deserve to be a member of this international organization,” he told the UN General Assembly.

“We are going to submit an application to the UNGA on this matter,” he said.

The bottom line here is that the pseudo Palestinian leadership has refused to recognize Israel and first and foremost rejected Israel’s overture for a future Palestinian State at least twice.

Twenty years ago, in July 2000, we were filled with hope as Ehud Barak, Israel’s Prime Minister and leader of the Labor Party, left for Camp David to negotiate a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. After more than a decade of previously unimaginable historical breakthroughs – the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Apartheid in South Africa and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland – we believed we had arrived at the historical moment when peace with the Palestinians might finally be at hand.

Barak placed a bold proposal on the negotiating table that would have provided the Palestinians with an independent sovereign state in almost all of the West Bank and Gaza, without a single settlement in sight, and a capital in east Jerusalem, including holy sites. And we were certain the Palestinians would say yes. After all, for decades we had been told that the key to peace in the Middle East was for Israel to hand over land – “land for peace” – and Barak had just agreed to hand over the land to the Palestinians.