Abu Mazen could have said he was the Pope and he would have got a standing ovation. Hitler got a standing ovation at Nuremberg not many Jews would have got one there either.
As Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in response to the Abbas speech.
"The Palestinian leadership is trying to seize statehood on their own terms while refusing to negotiate directly with Israel. It finds fertile ground among the rogue regimes that have hijacked the United Nations."
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