Mahmoud Abbas: “What, then, is the international community waiting for before it acts to protect the Palestinian people?”

We will not leave our homeland. We will not accept displacement. And we will not allow anyone to decide our future on our behalf.

We will not allow the rights of our people, for which we have struggled for decades and made great sacrifices to achieve, to be infringed upon ...

The biggest obstacle to Middle East peace is Israel's expansion of Jewish settlements and Palestinian occupied territories.

You know, Senator, I know exactly what you expect of me. I have to disarm Hamas. Now you tell me how I'm supposed to do that.