RAMALLAH, West Bank, May 17 (UPI) -- Palestinians will request international recognition of a state of Palestine to pave the way for legal claims against Israel, the Palestinian president wrote.
"Minutes after the state of Israel was established on May 14, 1948, the United States granted it recognition. Our Palestinian state, however, remains a promise unfulfilled," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wrote in an op-ed piece published in The New York Times Monday.