The Palestinians will submit a bid to the General Assembly for non-state membership of the United Nations later this month

The Palestinians will submit a bid to the General Assembly for non-state membership of the United Nations later this month, president Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday.
  
"We're going to the United Nations in November 2012, not 2013, or 2014," Abbas said at an event commemorating the eighth anniversary of the death of veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
  
"Israel's hysterical reaction to our UN bid is due to its desire to continue the occupation and we are under pressure of late from multiple parties to waive our just demand, but we will not," Abbas added.
  
The UN bid was "the only way to address the assault of settlement activity and to save the two-state solution," he said.
  
Palestinian envoys to the United Nations on Thursday unveiled the resolution they plan to submit to the General Assembly seeking observer state status.
  
The resolution would call on the assembly to accord observer membership and urge the UN Security Council to "consider favorably" an application Abbas made for full membership last year.
  
Also speaking at the ceremony, Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi offered his support for the bid, which he called "an important move to assert the rights of the Palestinians to their land." If the bid succeeds, he said, "the Palestinian territories will be considered a country under occupation."