Shortly before taking the podium to address the United Nations' General Assembly last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said everything the world needs to know about where the so-called peace process is headed. Speaking to an assembly of 200 senior representatives of the Palestinian community in the United States, Abbas laid his cards on the table. "They talk to us about the Jewish state, but I respond to them with a final answer: We shall not recognize a Jewish state," he proclaimed.
