The Palestinian Authority has admitted that it will use United Nations recognition of its demands as a tool to force Israel to accept them in what it calls “negotiations,” meaning accepting all of its conditions in a face-to-face meeting. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas plans to ask the General Assembly, probably in November, to grant the PA non-member observer status with recognition of its territorial demands, namely sovereignty over all of Jerusalem that was restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967, as well as all of Judea and Samaria. Abbas previously has said he would not allow any Jew to live in a PA state, even though nearly 15 percent of the population in Judea and Samaria is Jewish.Approval in the General Assembly also would include recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the PA and also would probably back the demand that Israel allow the immigration of several million Arabs living in foreign countries.The Obama administration has promised Israel it will try to convince European nations to oppose the resolution, a move that might persuade enough pro-Arab countries to abstain from voting for the…

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