Palestine’s Abbas: Israeli ‘Apartheid’ Could Lead to ‘One State’

Israel is “destroying prospect of political settlement based on two-state solution through its illegal settlements in occupied West Bank,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells UN General Assembly.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of destroying the two-state solution with actions he said could lead Palestinians to demand equal rights within one binational state comprising Israel, the occupied West Bank, and besieged Gaza.

Addressing the UN General Assembly via video link from the West Bank, Abbas, 85, on Friday urged the international community to act to save the two-state formula that for decades has been the bedrock of diplomacy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.