The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has suggested to declare 2017 when the Israeli occupation of Palestinian comes to an end. In his speech to the UN General Assembly, Abbas urged the UN Security Council to ban Jewish settlements in Palestine, promising to soon present a draft resolution.

He also called on the UK government to apologize for 1917 Balfour Declaration, which enshrined the right to national self-determination of the Jewish people . In response , the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered Abbas to speak from the rostrum of the Israeli parliament and announced about the return to the negotiating table to resolve the conflict within a shortest period .