Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas summarised the suffering of his people and called on the international community to recognise Palestine at 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly last week. He spoke after the idea of the two-state solution received unanimous support from global leaders, including President Biden and Israeli Prime Min Yair Lapid. Abbas’s call for immediate talks contrasts the advice given to him by President Biden in Bethlehem not to push the issue “because the time is not ripe” for it. Twenty-nine years after Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands at the W…