The Arab state would have included not only what Resolution181 referred to as "the Gaza District" and "the hill country of Samaria and Judea, " but also such other territories as the western Galilee.
"Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel, " Mr Abbas said shortly before the vote in New York.