Netanyahu Expected to Respond to Abbas in UN Speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to take the podium at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Thursday, a day after Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told the gathering that the Palestinians are no longer bound by the two-decade-old Oslo peace agreements with Israel. In his speech to the U.N. Wednesday, Abbas called on the world body to provide international protection for Palestinians and accused Israel of refusing to release Palestinian prisoners while creating...

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