Today's quote: Palestine requests its birth certificate from UN

“Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel...

“The United Nations General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the state of Palestine.”

- Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority at the UN - 30 Nov. 2012