New York : Its time to right the wrongs of History as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will attempt to secure a just future for the Palestinian people by applying for UN membership for the state of Palestine.
After enduring decades of expulsion, discrimination and occupation, Palestinians yearn to establish a modern, democratic state. We are at the mountaintop, but whether we cross sooner or later into the promised land of freedom and statehood depends largely on an American President who wasn't even born when Abbas' family and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced into exile in 1948.
