On September 27, the chairman of the PLO, Mahmoud Abbas (who is also president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Fatah Party) spoke to the U.N. General Assembly.

While he reiterated his support for the two-state solution, Abbas used his time at the podium mostly to revile Israel in terms we associate more with Hamas than with the Palestinian Authority. Here, in the order in which he employed them, are Abbas’s words about Israel.