Israel is a principal US ally and often a main topic in USA presidential politics. He observed that Abbas denounced the Balfour Declaration, the UK’s 1917 commitment to establish a Jewish state in mandatory Palestine, in his own UN General Assembly speech an hour earlier.
Advertisement
He expressed hope that all United Nations member states would apply pressure to Israel and that the conference would take place before the end of 2016.
Under increasing global pressure to reach a lasting peace agreement, the Israeli prime minister bluntly told the assembly that his country would resist any United Nations efforts to impose a solution.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spontaneously made an appeal, in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 20, directly to Israeli leaders and citizens to make peace with Palestinians.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with both Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in separate meetings in New York City on Sunday, a senior Israeli source told Haaretz on Friday.
France’s foreign minister says he will be disappointed but not discouraged if an agreement isn’t reached in NY on a new cease-fire in Syria, insisting: “We will continue to fight”.
“Israel must recognise the state of Palestine and put an end to its occupation of our land so the state of Palestine can co-exist alongside the state of Israel in peace and security as good neighbours”, he said.
Mr Netanyahu spoke shortly after Mr Abbas at the UN.
“I believe the day is not far off that Israel will be able to count on many countries to stand with us at the UN”.
Netanyahu met with the US’s top diplomat in NY following the premier’s speech before the United Nations’ annual General Assembly debate, where the two also discussed security matters concerning the Middle East and the newly signed Memorandum of Understanding which aids Israel an estimated $38 billion dollars over the next 10 years. The event, led by the Prime Minister, is an Israeli-African summit that presents the start-up nation to the entire world.
The Palestinians have rebuffed Netanyahu’s past offers for meetings, although Russian Federation said this month that Abbas and Netanyahu have agreed “in principle” to meet in Moscow for talks aimed at relaunching a peace process.
Hanegbi said there had been an “improvement” in Obama’s stance towards the Jewish State in his second term, however he was “not acting as the world’s strongest man, but as an employee of the Clinton campaign”, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Israel wants to be your partner in seizing that future, so I call on all of you: Cooperate with Israel, embrace Israel, dream with Israel. “Israel has diplomatic relations with 160 countries, almost double the number when I served as Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations 30 years ago”.
Advertisement
“Today”, he noted, “UN member states had the opportunity to see that Israel seeks peace, while, tragically, 68 years after Israel’s rebirth, the Palestinian leadership still can not reconcile itself to the very existence of the State of Israel”.
