Source: Jerusalem Post [Palestine]
“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 told the General Assembly on Thursday. … Israel ‘has, from the very beginning, not fulfilled the conditions of membership because in 1949, when it submitted its application’ for membership, the UN imposed two conditions, Abbas said. The first is that Israel accepts Resolution 181, Abbas said as he referred to the text that backed the UN’s 1947 partition plan, which called for the territory that had been part of mandatory Palestine between the two world wars to be divided into a Jewish and Arab state. The second condition, Abbas said, is that Israel accepts Resolution 194, which calls for the right of return for Palestinians who fled their homes during the 1948 war.” (09/26/24)