 والأخرين وانساسترين لديهم نقبة تراجق 74 سنوات وانهم still living the spillovers of this نقبة which is a humiliation for the whole humanity and especially for those who have conspired and executed this heinous crime. More than 5 million Palestinians have been living under the Israeli military occupation for more than 54 years and I would like to tell you today on behalf of the Palestinians whom I am proud to belong to that our trust in the possibility of achieving peace based on justice and international law is unfortunately regressing because of the Israeli occupation policies do you want ladies and gentlemen to smother whatever hope we still have it is clear ladies and gentlemen that Israel which is ignoring the resolutions of the international legitimacy has decided not to be our partner in the peace process it has undermined the Oslo accords which it has signed with the PLO it has and still is through its current policies which are premeditated and destroying the two-state solution this proves unequivocally that Israel does not believe in it believes in imposing status quo by force and by aggression therefore we do not have an Israeli partner anymore to whom we can talk Israel is ending its contractual relation with us and it is making the relationship between the state of Palestine and Israel a relationship between an occupying state and an occupied people nothing more therefore we will only deal with Israel as such and we call upon the international community to deal with it as such as well Israel has chosen that itself we did not make that choice Israel is launching a frantic campaign to confiscate our land to build settlements to loot our resources as if this land is empty and has no owners exactly as it did in 1948 Israel is giving total freedom to the army and to the تراريس ستلرس who are killing the Palestinian people in broad daylight لoting their land and their water burning and demolishing their homes compelling them to pay for the demolition or forcing them to destroy their homes with their own hands and افضلت their trees all this with an official protection can you imagine what is happening Israel is telling the Palestinian people either you demolish your house or I will demolish it myself but demolish it yourself with your own hands it's better because if I demolish it you will have to pay the cost of the demolishing have you ever heard about this can you imagine what is happening this is what is taking place I have to demolish my house or they demolish my house and they make me pay for it furthermore أصرائيولا عميح أعصص اصرائيولا عميح أعصص أصرائيولا عميح أعصص و يأتي على رأس هذه المنظمة المنظمة، أخبرني أنها هي حلطة المنظمة، و مجمعات تدفيع السماعة، و لهابة، و جماعة أماناء الهيكل، و غيرها، و غيرها، و كثيرا أخرين. و يقود مثل هذه المنظمة. من أبناء الشرعية الإسرائي. و نحن نطالب المستمعات المنظمة. لتصميم الأسرائيات المنظمة على الأسرائي الأمانية. هذا هو المكان الذي يحتاجه. و لن يتركنا أي ألوانا على الذي يمكننا أن نستخدمنا المستمعات المنظمة. في مرحباً، أكثر من مجموعة تلوية المنظمة. أين سنمعنا المستمعات المنظمة؟ Where can we build our independent state that will live in peace with its neighbors? We want to live in peace with them, with them, with Israel. Where will we establish our independent state to live in peace with them? A settlement, unfortunately, constitutes 751,000 or 25% of the total population. 25% in the West Bank, the Palestinian land which remains for us. Israel is killing our people with impunity. As it did with the Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu-Aqli. You have all heard of Shireen Abu-Aqli. She was killed with the bullets of a sniper. It means that the sniper deliberately killed her. And Israel recognized that the sniper recognized that he did kill her. And besides her Palestinian nationality, she also has the American nationality. I would... I dare the United States to prosecute those who have killed this American national. Why? Because they are Israelis. Israel is also targeting our sacred holy sites Christian and Islamic, especially in Jerusalem, our eternal capital and the crown jewel. And I would like to reiterate here our attachment to the Hashemite, the staging ship on these holy sites. Those are the Muslim and Christian holy sites that are being targeted on a daily basis by Israel. Without any justification, every day. Here they are attacking the funerals of Shireen Abu-Aqli inside the church, inside that holy place. And they have attacked the procession. And this is what Israel is doing in the holy sites. Israel is also imposing a classified curricula in our schools in occupied Jerusalem. They are inventing curricula. The same authors, they take the book and they change what is put in that book. And then they impose the curricula on our children to control what they are learning. This is a violation of international law. Israel is also disrupting the presidential and legislative Palestinian elections by forbidding the Palestinian citizens in Jerusalem to take part in these elections. And this has taken place in 1996, in 2005 and in 2006. So there are three presidents, three times where they did so. And they ask us, why don't you organize elections? We are ready. We have issued the decrees to organize these elections. And we have decided to organize the elections. But Israel did not allow us to do so. Therefore, we did not cancel the elections. We only postponed them. When Israel allows or when some tell her that she can allow or when some order Israel that they can allow for these elections to take place, then we will organize them. Israel is enacting racist laws. Consecrating the apartheid regime. Yes, apartheid. And if they do not like the appellation, this is the truth. They are an apartheid regime. Not only between Palestinians and Jews. We are doing so against our people before the eyes of the international community with total impunity. Why isn't Israel being held accountable for violating international law? Who is protecting Israel from being held accountable? I have no idea. Do you know? Do you know who is protecting Israel from being held accountable? And on top of the United Nations, the most powerful in the United Nations. Why these double standards? Why do they treat us equally with the others? Why these double standards when it comes to Israel? Israel does not hesitate to repeatedly violate our land and recently they have closed the headquarters of six human rights Palestinian human rights organizations. They want the law. They try to implement the law, but if we make a mistake, they hold us accountable and they say you have made a mistake. Suddenly Israel considers that these organizations are terrorist organizations and they raid their headquarters and they loot their assets. They confiscate their documents and burn them. They do whatever they please. And the whole word is saying that this is wrong except for Israel. It is saying that it is not wrong. This is what Israel has done in the offices of these human rights organizations. What would it have done if they weren't human rights organizations? Ladies and gentlemen, Israel ever since it was created has committed heinous crimes against our people when they destroyed 529 Palestinian villages expelling their dwellers during and after the war of 1948. They have displaced a figure that some try to manipulate sometimes. They have displaced 950,000 Palestinian refugees so half of the Palestinian people back then, 950,000, not as Israel says, 250,000. No, 950,000. Those are the UN statistics and of course now they account for millions. Israel has committed ever since and until now more than 50 massacres since 1948 and until today. And some of those massacres have been recently committed and Israel recognized that it had deliberately committed these massacres and that they have targeted the farmers coming back from their agricultural land and they killed them in cold water. 50 or 51 massacres. The most recent of which was against Gaza which was targeted with missiles. I will not tell you how many elderly it killed but the New York Times it's a U.S. newspaper so the New York Times said 67 children were killed in Gaza and of course they were carrying missiles and they were in tanks and they were launching missiles 67 children those are their photos they were killed by Israel who is good at it and they were killed by Israel who is going to assume this responsibility and why did Israel kill them? And I would like to give you lists of these villages that were destroyed of these massacres that were perpetrated and I would like to ask Israel from this roster to recognize its responsibility for destroying these villages committing these massacres and displacing the Palestinian citizens and to apologize to the Palestinian people after all this killing they have to apologize we call them to bear the legal and political moral and material responsibility they should be held accountable and the international community should hold them accountable we ask the international community right now to hold them accountable for what they have done for the massacres they have committed and we will go to the international criminal court and to all the course of the word but first and foremost to the international criminal court to ask Israel to shoulder its legal political, moral and financial responsibilities I ask here does the Israeli people want to remain a colonizing people forever they have been so for 75 years until when I would like to ask you should we wait for a century or maybe for 2 centuries we are the only people on this planet still living under occupation why as a channel assembly you members of the security council you advocates of human rights why should we remain under occupation what are we still waiting for what are the Israelis going to teach us why should they be occupying us or teach us or kill us or confiscate our land loot our resources even the rain which falls on us is being taken by them and then they set it back to us they take our rain and then they set it back to us Ladies and gentlemen we do not accept to remain the only party respecting the agreements we have signed with Israel in 1993 those agreements are not valid anymore because of the persisting violations of Israel and although we have asked Israel to end its occupation and its hostile measures and policies and all the unilateral actions that were stated explicitly in the Oslo Accords and which President Biden mentioned to me in person he said that unilateral actions should be ended and Israel was the first to violate this and it is taking all unilateral actions while we haven't taken any unilateral action and we do not want to do that and we do not want to violate laws but until when until when we will respect and be the only ones respecting these agreements therefore it is our right well you were just listening to the Palestinian authorities President Mahmoud Abbas the 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York his speech right there but way back in studio now let's break the speech down a little bit more I'm joined by Ariel Osaran our Middle East correspondent who is still with me in the studio Ariel you were just there obviously listening to it he's clearly used his UN speech to support for the Middle East peace making process but then on the flip side he's really putting Israel down he's saying that Israel is destroying the two-state solution he's saying that Israel is violating international law okay we have to break in to the live presser again let's take a listen no one listen to us we are making these decisions in order to preserve our national existence on our land in order to uphold our historical rights in our nation under the umbrella of the PLO the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people which brings together all the people all the Palestinian people wherever they are in the word inside Palestine in the refugee camp and indeed diaspora all those who have the Palestinian nationality or used to have the Palestinian nationality fall under the umbrella of the PLO dear participants the united nations in its different organs has adopted hundreds of resolutions on Palestine none was implemented is it possible not a single resolution was implemented 754 resolutions from the general assembly 97 resolutions from the security council 96 resolutions from the human rights council and not one was implemented how come why why when a resolution is taken here or there everyone calls for its implementation and calls for implementing the international legitimacy while all these resolutions were adopted for Palestine not a single resolution implement one single resolution and tell us we have implemented it we want the implementation of a single resolution and right now resolution 181 which you have adopted resolution 181 is the resolution that we want to be implemented we want you to implement resolution 181 and with it another resolution why resolution 194 because those two resolutions are preconditions to accept Israel as member of the united nations and back then the foreign minister of israel said that he pledges to implement these two resolutions and therefore Israel was accepted as member of the un but until now neither resolutions was implemented I want the resolution 181 to be implemented one single resolution it is our right to ask for its implementation so go ahead implement it and tell us that you have done so we have submitted request to the secretary general to implement this resolution is it possible or are you going to ignore us once again as you have been doing for so long at the state of Palestine we will also start the accession process to join other international organizations we were allowed to join as an observer state we are an observer state in the united nations 15 million palestinians all of them educated all of them highly educated but we are only observer but this membership allowed us to to other international organizations and starting tomorrow we will pursue this and it is our right to do so and we will be joining the WHO the WIPO and the ICOW we are going to exceed to these organizations and this is our right and no one can blame it the security council has adopted a clear resolution the implementation of which will achieve a just and comprehensive piece the most recent of which was resolution 2334 in 2016 the security council its itself submitted this resolution the resolution was adopted and 2 days later Mr. Trump cancelled everything including this resolution and came up with the ultimate deal and all his other projects have totally rejected that was a resolution submitted by the United States and adopted with the sponsorship of the United States but it has disappeared why? because Mr. Trump rejected it and I would like to remind you that we do not need double standards anymore if we are prohibited from getting for the states of Palestine in the United Nations and protecting the Palestinian people we have been asking you to protect us from aggression but no one has done anything and if no practical measures are taken to end occupation and achieve peace we will have to resort once again to the General Assembly and ask the resolution to take the necessary legal and political steps to achieve that goal and then we hope we have the right to hope we hope to be able to hope we are living on this hope we are confident that the General Assembly which will fully shoulder its responsibilities Ladies and gentlemen I am confident that you will understand why we are going to take all these measures now throughout the past years we have tried everything in order to convince Israel to go back to the negotiation table based on the resolutions of the international legitimacy and the signed agreements but Israel refused and is still refusing to do that Ladies and gentlemen with all due respect to what the international community has done or has tried to do at least because they haven't done everything so despite what the international community has done or tried to do in terms of supporting politically and materially our people and our trust cause it was unfortunately unable to end occupation and to end the heinous and continuous Israeli aggression on our people and to protect our people we want to be protected please protect us we will not resort to weapons we will not resort to violence I promise you we will not resort to terrorism we will fight terrorism with you hand in hand but protect us from violence like you are doing for the other peoples of the world today the occupying state is acting as a state above the law why do you know why Israel is acting as a state above the law why can anyone answer me but no one will answer me surprisingly states like the united states pretend to uphold international law and human rights while at the same time providing and I will speak frankly here while at the same time providing unlimited support to Israel protecting Israel from accountability and assisting Israel to pursue its hostile policies and contempt to the whole international community Israel wouldn't have been able to do what it did without the cover or the support of these states honestly put if you don't want to say it because it is not politically correct I will say it some of these states were partners at the very beginning and adopting the decisions that led to the nakba of the palestinian people the famous balfour declaration do you remember the balfour declaration of course you do not remember it because we are the only ones suffering its consequences and after the balfour declaration I will say it and the sustained injustice against the palestinian people when they refused to compel Israel to end its occupation and aggression and to respect the decisions of the international legitimacy therefore these states bear along with Israel the responsibility for the plight of the palestinian people therefore we ask maritania you are listening to the palestinian authorities president they are live from the 77th united nations general assembly in new york but right now let's break this speech down a little bit more way crossing over straight to new york mike wagenheim our us correspondent joins us from the united nations headquarters there mike you are listening to the same speech as ariel and I here in the studio what did you feel about the tone and narrative of what he was saying it's essentially a microcosm of why the region is passed by why we are now celebrating the second anniversary of the abraham accords there's just nothing of substance there it's old grievances that could have been brought up essentially in any year could have been a pre-recorded speech from 5, 6, 7 years ago just with some new facts sprinkled in there there's no new ideas there's no accomplishments to be spoken of there's just nothing there from akhmud abbas and it symbolizes his degradation and you're seeing it out on the streets in samaria and the west bank in palestinian towns and villages it's a new rebellion against the palestinian authority there's just nothing there to speak of he's talking about the partition implementing the partition plan he's back in 1947 back in 1948 there's just he's hanging to the table blaming the united nations for holding a double standard in favor of the israelis which is just a complete opposite of reality when you look at the un and all the anti-israel resolutions that it's passed with all the resources that the united nations pours into the palestinians the permanent agenda items against israel they're always on the docket the number of pro-palestinian committees the special rapporteurs the billions of dollars that have been poured into the palestinian cause for him to say there's a pro-israel bent at the united nations it's detached from reality but typical of a akhmud abbas speech at the un general assembly i don't think anybody felt it was going to be any different than usual Mike Wagonheim thank you so much our u.s correspondent there live from the united nations headquarters in new york with those details thank you well just in studio now we'll just discuss the contents of akhmud abbas's speech with you rl he used the un's speech to rally for the middle east peacemaking process but then on the flip side he's saying how the un has he's blaming the un actually for violating for not holding israel accountable for violating international law which is you know all the crimes committed the massacres in his words committed against israel but then just yesterday we heard from yeah ira lapete israel's prime minister saying that he does support the two state solution today mahmud abbas is saying that israel is destroying the two state solution that there's no israeli partner left to talk to about this and that they're making the conflict a lot more difficult what was your take on all of this just break it down for us a bit from the words of from his speech abbas's speech it sounded more like israel bashing than calling for peace not only is israel aiming to destroy the two state solution as you brought from his speech but also it has decided not to be a partner he gave the same usual threats that he's been giving in speeches until now last year he said israel has a year to withdraw to the 1967 borders even know now he asked the un to impose the 1948 borders but that's for another discussion but he called for israel to return otherwise they will go to the icc now it hasn't done it today said okay we're going to go to the icc he didn't give a timetable for that another reused threat talking about the old agreements the 1993 meaning the Oslo agreements with the cooperation security coordination with israel those are no longer valid he said that two years ago in may of 2020 I think just the the only new perhaps thing was that the Palestinian Authority will ask to join some key organizations as statehood again no time frame here so nothing tangible similar to Mike I didn't fall out of my seat from this speech sources from Abbas's office called this a historic speech it's a historically predictable speech in my opinion and unless he said something after we cut away it seems that this is another in a chronology of speeches that is basically a way to vent against the international community but not to demand anything tangible so just more of a reiteration of the past few speeches that we've heard we're just thanking Ariel Osran our Middle East correspondent in studio with me but that's all we do have for you on i24 news right now we'll be back to bring you more of the very latest updates I'm Sarah Shalala and thank you for joining us