Palestinians facing ‘most dangerous’ time in their history, Abbas tells UN

LONDON: Palestinians are facing the most dangerous time in their history, President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday. He accused Israel of destroying the two-state solution, and urged US President Donald Trump to honor his commitment to prevent Palestinian displacement. Abbas was speaking via video link after the Palestinian delegation was denied entry visas by the US, preventing travel to UN headquarters in New York. He highlighted the decades of “historic injustice, uproo