The Palestinian Authority refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish State Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said adding he will continue with the statehood bid. "Don't order us to recognize a Jewish state, we won't accept it," Abbas told Palestinian officials in Ramallah in response to international demands that he forego the statehood bid and recognize Israel. The statehood bid in the United Nations next month is not aimed at isolating Israel or causing conflict with the United States he said. Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman blasted Abbas statements and said they "reveal the true nature of the September motion. A Palestinian state comes in place of a Jewish state," he said. The goal of the Palestinians is to obtain recognition of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty on the territories occupied since 1967, and obtain full membership in the United Nations," Abbas said.
