The specifics are...unclear.
Maybe he should sue the Arab leaders, including Palestinian Arab leaders, who refused to accept the UN resolution that would have given them a state in 1947!
Please, please sue the British government, Abbas. Sue them to demand an apology. Sue them to demand money. Sue them as publicly and noisily as possible. If you cant find a legal excuse to sue, please continue to threaten a lawsuit anyway.
It is a sure way to lose support for your cause in the West, as people are slowly realizing that the Palestinian Authority is more interested in stunts than peace. The Arab world is already there, and your actions are the surest way to ensure that your people will be whining about their terrible lives in their villas in Ramallah for the next century.
(full article online)
Please, please sue Britain, Mahmoud Abbas! ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
The British covered themselves via Sir Alexander Cadogan's "washing of British hands" regarding the matter.
"AD HOC COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE
24th Meeting GA/PAL/76
20 November 1947
PALESTINE COMMITTEE HEARS U.K. STAND AND ADJOURNS
SUB-COMMITTEES MEET
The Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestinian Question this afternoon heard a statement by Sir Alexander Cadogan (UK) on the position of this Government, which is the mandatory power, toward the reports of the two sub-committees, one on partition and the other on partition and the other on a unitary, independent state in Palestine.
After Sir Alexander had spoken the Committee adjourned to give members time to consult with each other and with their governments. The tow sub-committees were directed to meet later this afternoon, and the Ad Hoc Committee will meet again tomorrow morning.
"Sir Alexander added that it can hardly be imagined that the proposals made by subcommittee I would command the acquiescence of the Arab population, or that the proposals of subcommittee 2 would be accepted by the Jewish population of Palestine.
Sir Alexander then explained that the limits within which his Government are prepared to participate in giving effect to any settlement which fails to win approval of both Arabs and Jews in Palestine were clearly defined by the Colonial Secretary in the statement which he made to this Committee on 26 September. The United Kingdom Government, said Sir Alexander, have not since deviated, and cannot deviate, from the position which had been a at that early stage in the Committee’s discussions, and his task today was simply to apply the general principles contained in the Colonial Secretary’s statement to the specific proposals which are now before the Committee. He then recalled that those principles were: